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HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain

A three-phase BFT protocol whose communication is linear in the number of replicas, because a leader collects a threshold signature instead of everyone talking to everyone. Diem used a variant. The paper is not that network.

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Authors: Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham
Date: 2019
Publisher: Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0066
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Canonical readingHotStuff study
Related paperPBFT
Related paperTendermint
Related paperDiem

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Yin, M., Malkhi, D., Reiter, M. K., Gueta, G. G., & Abraham, I. (2019). HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain. Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05069

BibTeX

@techreport{hotstuff2019,
  title = {HotStuff: BFT Consensus in the Lens of Blockchain},
  author = {Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05069},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/hotstuff}
}

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AU  - Guy Golan Gueta
AU  - Ittai Abraham
PY  - 2019
PB  - Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05069
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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