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Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits

Bitcoin uses one chain for three jobs: proposing transactions, voting on history, and ordering the result. Prism splits those jobs onto separate block trees so throughput can approach network capacity while confirmation tracks propagation delay.

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Authors: Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath
Date: 2019
Publisher: Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0091
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Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Bagaria, V., Kannan, S., Tse, D., Fanti, G., & Viswanath, P. (2019). Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits. Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08092

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@techreport{prism2019,
  title = {Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits},
  author = {Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Vivek Bagaria, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Giulia Fanti and Pramod Viswanath},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08092},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/prism}
}

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