2020/04/19 by Gerui Wang, Wang, Gerui, Shuo Wang +7
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Auction Theory and Applications #Blockchain Technology Applications and Security #Distributed #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) #cs.DC
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.08776
openalex publication_date 2020/04/19 · arxiv created 2020/06/13 · arxiv updated 2020/06/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The performance of existing permissionless smart contract platforms such as Ethereum is limited by the consensus layer. Prism is a new proof-of-work consensus protocol that provably achieves throughput and latency up to physical limits while retaining the strong guarantees of the longest chain protocol. This paper reports experimental results from implementations of two smart contract virtual machines, EVM and MoveVM, on top of Prism and demonstrates that the consensus bottleneck has been removed. Code can be found at https://github.com/wgr523/prism-smart-contracts.