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SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol

Blocks form a DAG and vote pairwise on which of two blocks came first. In the common case that vote settles quickly. The paper does not promise a total order of every pair, which is why it is a poor fit for general contracts.

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Authors: Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg and Aviv Zohar
Date: 2016
Publisher: Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg and Aviv Zohar
Version: Source cited by the 2016 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0064
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Sompolinsky, Y., Lewenberg, Y., & Zohar, A. (2016). SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol. Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg and Aviv Zohar. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159

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@techreport{spectre2016,
  title = {SPECTRE: A Fast and Scalable Cryptocurrency Protocol},
  author = {Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg and Aviv Zohar},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg and Aviv Zohar},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/spectre}
}

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PB  - Yonatan Sompolinsky, Yoad Lewenberg and Aviv Zohar
UR  - https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159
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