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Fast-HotStuff: A Fast and Resilient HotStuff Protocol

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Mohammad M. Jalalzai, Jianyu Niu, Chen Feng, Fangyu Gai

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The HotStuff protocol is a breakthrough in Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus that enjoys both responsiveness and linear view change. It creatively adds an additional round to classic BFT protocols (like PBFT) using two rounds. This brings us to an interesting question: Is this additional round really necessary in practice? In this paper, we answer this question by designing a new two-round BFT protocol called Fast-HotStuff, which enjoys responsiveness and efficient view change that is comparable to linear view change in terms of performance. Compared to (three-round) HotStuff, Fast-HotStuff has lower latency and is more robust against performance attacks that HotStuff is susceptible to.

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