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Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform

Chainspace shards objects, and a transaction names the objects it will read and write so the shards involved can run a distributed commit.

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Authors
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn and George Danezis
Date
2017
Publisher
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn and George Danezis
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BLC-STUDY-0135
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Chainspace shards objects, and a transaction names the objects it will read and write so the shards involved can run a distributed commit.

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Al-Bassam, M., Sonnino, A., Bano, S., Hrycyszyn, D., & Danezis, G. (2017). Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform. Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn and George Danezis. https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03778

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@techreport{chainspace2017,
  title = {Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform},
  author = {Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn and George Danezis},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn and George Danezis},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03778},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/chainspace}
}

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AU  - Alberto Sonnino
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AU  - Dave Hrycyszyn
AU  - George Danezis
PY  - 2017
PB  - Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn and George Danezis
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03778
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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