Zilliqa is a new blockchain platform that is designed to scale in an open, permission-less distributed network securely. The core feature that makes Zilliqa scalable is sharding — dividing the network into several smaller component networks (called shards) capable of processing transactions in parallel.

Zilliqa

whitepaper

Introduction

System Setting and Assumptions

Non-malleability

Multisignature

Speed

Schnorr Signature

Proof of Work

Cryptographic Layer

Accounts, Addresses and State

Transactions

DS Blocks

Transaction Blocks

Blocks

Data Layer

Directory Service Committee

Resolving Conflicts

Generating Shards

Network Sharding

Public Channel

New Nodes Joining Zilliqa

Transaction Assignment

Transaction Processing

Transaction Sharding and Processing

Network Layer

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Improving Efficiency

Zilliqa Consensus

Leader Change

Consensus Layer

Computational Sharding using Dataflow Paradigm

Smart Security Budgeting

Scalable Applications: Examples

Smart Contract Layer

Token Supply

Incentivizing Miners

Incentive Layer

Related Work

Future Research Directions

conclusion

References

EC-Schnorr (Single Signer) Scheme

Setting & Assumptions

Multisignature Protocol

EC-Schnorr Multisignature Scheme

Appendix A: Schnorr Digital Signature Algorithm

Appendix B: Multisignature for PBFT

The ZILLIQA Technical Whitepaper

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