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OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding

OmniLedger reassigns validators to shards, uses a bias-resistant randomness beacon, and atomically commits cross-shard transactions.

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Authors: Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ewa Syta and Bryan Ford
Date: 2018
Publisher: Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ewa Syta and Bryan Ford
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0114
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Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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OmniLedger reassigns validators to shards, uses a bias-resistant randomness beacon, and atomically commits cross-shard transactions.

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Kokoris-Kogias, E., Jovanovic, P., Gasser, L., Gailly, N., Syta, E., & Ford, B. (2018). OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding. Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ewa Syta and Bryan Ford. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/406

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@techreport{omniledger2018,
  title = {OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding},
  author = {Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ewa Syta and Bryan Ford},
  year = {2018},
  institution = {Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas Gailly, Ewa Syta and Bryan Ford},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/406},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/omniledger}
}

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AU  - Ewa Syta
AU  - Bryan Ford
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