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SBFT: A Scalable and Decentralized Trust Infrastructure for Blockchains

Collectors aggregate signatures into one proof. A client and the replicas see a constant number of messages rather than a quadratic flood, under the paper's collector assumption.

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Authors: Guy Golan Gueta, Ittai Abraham, Shelly Grossman, Dahlia Malkhi, Benny Pinkas, Michael K. Reiter, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Orr Tamir and Alin Tomescu
Date: 2019
Publisher: Guy Golan Gueta, Ittai Abraham, Shelly Grossman, Dahlia Malkhi, Benny Pinkas, Michael K. Reiter, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Orr Tamir and Alin Tomescu
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0158
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Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Collectors aggregate signatures into one proof. A client and the replicas see a constant number of messages rather than a quadratic flood, under the paper's collector assumption.

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Gueta, G. G., Abraham, I., Grossman, S., Malkhi, D., Pinkas, B., Reiter, M. K., Seredinschi, D., Tamir, O., & Tomescu, A. (2019). SBFT: A Scalable and Decentralized Trust Infrastructure for Blockchains. Guy Golan Gueta, Ittai Abraham, Shelly Grossman, Dahlia Malkhi, Benny Pinkas, Michael K. Reiter, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Orr Tamir and Alin Tomescu. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.01626

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@techreport{sbft2019,
  title = {SBFT: A Scalable and Decentralized Trust Infrastructure for Blockchains},
  author = {Guy Golan Gueta, Ittai Abraham, Shelly Grossman, Dahlia Malkhi, Benny Pinkas, Michael K. Reiter, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Orr Tamir and Alin Tomescu},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Guy Golan Gueta, Ittai Abraham, Shelly Grossman, Dahlia Malkhi, Benny Pinkas, Michael K. Reiter, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Orr Tamir and Alin Tomescu},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.01626},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/sbft}
}

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