Thunderbolt: Concurrent Smart Contract Execution with Non-blocking Reconfiguration for Sharded DAGs - Junchao Chen; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Mohammad Sadoghi (Proceedings 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2026, Tampere, Finland, March 24-27, 2026, 2026)

Mysticeti: Reaching the Latency Limits with Uncertified DAGs - Kushal Babel; Andrey Chursin; George Danezis; Anastasios Kichidis; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Arun Koshy; Alberto Sonnino; Mingwei Tian (32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2025, San Diego, California, USA, February 24-28, 2025, 2025)

Stingray: Fast Concurrent Transactions Without Consensus - Srivatsan Sridhar; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (CoRR, 2025)

Byzantine Consensus in the Random Asynchronous Model - George Danezis; Jovan Komatovic; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Igor Zablotchi (CoRR, 2025)

Walrus: An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network - George Danezis; Giacomo Giuliari; Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias; Markus Legner; Jean-Pierre Smith; Alberto Sonnino; Karl Wüst (CoRR, 2025)

Sloth: Key Stretching and Deniable Encryption using Secure Elements on Smartphones - Daniel Hugenroth; Alberto Sonnino; Sam Cutler; Alastair R. Beresford (Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2024)

An Empirical Study of Consensus Protocols' DoS Resilience - Giacomo Giuliari; Alberto Sonnino; Marc Frei; Fabio Streun; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Adrian Perrig (Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2024, Singapore, July 1-5, 2024, 2024)

Sui Lutris: A Blockchain Combining Broadcast and Consensus - Sam Blackshear; Andrey Chursin; George Danezis; Anastasios Kichidis; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Xun Li; Mark Logan; Ashok Menon; Todd Nowacki; Alberto Sonnino; Brandon Williams; Lu Zhang (Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, 2024)

Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery - Nicolas Mohnblatt; Alberto Sonnino; Kobi Gurkan; Philipp Jovanovic (Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 14-18, 2024, 2024)

DISC-NG: Robust Service Discovery in the Ethereum Global Network - Michal Król; Onur Ascigil; Sergi Rene; Alberto Sonnino; Matthieu Pigaglio; Ramin Sadre; Felix Lange; Etienne Rivière (9th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 8-12, 2024, 2024)

Subset-Optimized BLS Multi-signature with Key Aggregation - Foteini Baldimtsi; Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias; François Garillot; Jonas Lindstrøm; Ben Riva; Arnab Roy; Mahdi Sedaghat; Alberto Sonnino; Pun Waiwitlikhit; Joy Wang (Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 28th International Conference, FC 2024, Willemstad, Curaçao, March 4-8, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, 2024)

HammerHead: Leader Reputation for Dynamic Scheduling - Giorgos Tsimos; Anastasios Kichidis; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2024, Jersey City, NJ, USA, July 23-26, 2024, 2024)

BFT Consensus: From Academic Paper to Mainnet (Invited Talk) - Alberto Sonnino (28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2024, December 11-13, 2024, Lucca, Italy, 2024)

Fastcrypto: Pioneering Cryptography Via Continuous Benchmarking - Kostas Kryptos Chalkias; Jonas Lindstrøm; Deepak Maram; Ben Riva; Arnab Roy; Alberto Sonnino; Joy Wang (Companion of the 15th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, ICPE 2024, London, United Kingdom, May 7-11, 2024, 2024)

Pilotfish: Distributed Transaction Execution for Lazy Blockchains - Quentin Kniep; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Igor Zablotchi; Nuda Zhang (CoRR, 2024)

Thunderbolt: Causal Concurrent Consensus and Execution - Junchao Chen; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Mohammad Sadoghi (CoRR, 2024)

Mahi-Mahi: Low-Latency Asynchronous BFT DAG-Based Consensus - Philipp Jovanovic; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Bryan Kumara; Alberto Sonnino; Pasindu Tennage; Igor Zablotchi (CoRR, 2024)

Obelia: Scaling DAG-Based Blockchains to Hundreds of Validators - George Danezis; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Mingwei Tian (CoRR, 2024)

Fastcrypto: Pioneering Cryptography Via Continuous Benchmarking - Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias; Jonas Lindstrøm; Deepak Maram; Ben Riva; Arnab Roy; Alberto Sonnino; Joy Wang (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024)

Sunfish: Reading Ledgers with Sparse Nodes - Giulia Scaffino; Karl Wüst; Deepak Maram; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2024)

STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons - Donald Beaver; Konstantinos Chalkias; Mahimna Kelkar; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Kevin Lewi; Ladi de Naurois; Valeria Nikolaenko; Arnab Roy; Alberto Sonnino (5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2023, October 23-25, 2023, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2023)

Performance of EdDSA and BLS Signatures in Committee-Based Consensus - Zhuolun Li; Alberto Sonnino; Philipp Jovanovic (Proceedings of the 5th workshop on Advanced tools, programming languages, and PLatforms for Implementing and Evaluating algorithms for Distributed systems, ApPLIED 2023, Orlando, FL, USA, 19 June 2023, 2023)

Proof of Availability and Retrieval in a Modular Blockchain Architecture - Shir Cohen; Guy Goren; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman (Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 27th International Conference, FC 2023, Bol, Brač, Croatia, May 1-5, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, 2023)

Parakeet: Practical Key Transparency for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging - Harjasleen Malvai; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Esha Ghosh; Ercan Oztürk; Kevin Lewi; Sean F. Lawlor (30th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2023, San Diego, California, USA, February 27 - March 3, 2023, 2023)

Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments - Mathieu Baudet; Alberto Sonnino; Mahimna Kelkar; George Danezis (Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26 November 2023, 2023)

Performance of EdDSA and BLS Signatures in Committee-Based Consensus - Zhuolun Li; Alberto Sonnino; Philipp Jovanovic (CoRR, 2023)

Resilient Consensus Sustained Collaboratively - Junchao Chen; Suyash Gupta; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Mohammad Sadoghi (CoRR, 2023)

HammerHead: Leader Reputation for Dynamic Scheduling - Giorgos Tsimos; Anastasios Kichidis; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (CoRR, 2023)

Cuttlefish: Expressive Fast Path Blockchains with FastUnlock - Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; George Danezis (CoRR, 2023)

Mysticeti: Low-Latency DAG Consensus with Fast Commit Path - Kushal Babel; Andrey Chursin; George Danezis; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino (CoRR, 2023)

Sui Lutris: A Blockchain Combining Broadcast and Consensus - Sam Blackshear; Andrey Chursin; George Danezis; Anastasios Kichidis; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Xun Li; Mark Logan; Ashok Menon; Todd Nowacki; Alberto Sonnino; Brandon Williams; Lu Zhang (CoRR, 2023)

Parakeet: Practical Key Transparency for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging - Harjasleen Malvai; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Esha Ghosh; Ercan Oztürk; Kevin Lewi; Sean F. Lawlor (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Subset-optimized BLS Multi-signature with Key Aggregation - Foteini Baldimtsi; Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias; François Garillot; Jonas Lindstrøm; Ben Riva; Arnab Roy; Alberto Sonnino; Pun Waiwitlikhit; Joy Wang (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery - Nicolas Mohnblatt; Alberto Sonnino; Kobi Gurkan; Philipp Jovanovic (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Sloth: Key Stretching and Deniable Encryption using Secure Elements on Smartphones - Daniel Hugenroth; Alberto Sonnino; Sam Cutler; Alastair R. Beresford (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2023)

Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical - Alexander Spiegelman; Neil Giridharan; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7-11, 2022, 2022)

Narwhal and Tusk: a DAG-based mempool and efficient BFT consensus - George Danezis; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman (EuroSys '22: Seventeenth European Conference on Computer Systems, Rennes, France, April 5 - 8, 2022, 2022)

Efficient DAG-Based Consensus (Invited Talk) - Alberto Sonnino (5th International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain 2022, FAB 2022, June 3, 2022, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2022)

Be Aware of Your Leaders - Shir Cohen; Rati Gelashvili; Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias; Zekun Li; Dahlia Malkhi; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman (Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 26th International Conference, FC 2022, Grenada, May 2-6, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, 2022)

Jolteon and Ditto: Network-Adaptive Efficient Consensus with Asynchronous Fallback - Rati Gelashvili; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman; Zhuolun Xiang (Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 26th International Conference, FC 2022, Grenada, May 2-6, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, 2022)

Low-latency, Scalable, DeFi with Zef - Mathieu Baudet; Alberto Sonnino; Michal Król (CoRR, 2022)

Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments - Mathieu Baudet; Alberto Sonnino; Mahimna Kelkar; George Danezis (CoRR, 2022)

Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical - Neil Giridharan; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman (CoRR, 2022)

Efficient Multiparty Protocols Using Generalized Parseval's Identity and the Theta Algebra - Giorgio Sonnino; Alberto Sonnino (CoRR, 2022)

Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version - Alexander Spiegelman; Neil Giridharan; Alberto Sonnino; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (CoRR, 2022)

Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments - Mathieu Baudet; Alberto Sonnino; Mahimna Kelkar; George Danezis (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022)

Proof of Availability & Retrieval in a Modular Blockchain Architecture - Guy Goren; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Shir Cohen; Alexander Spiegelman (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2022)

Scaling distributed ledgers and privacy-preserving applications - Alberto Sonnino (University College London, UK, 2021)

EL PASSO: Efficient and Lightweight Privacy-preserving Single Sign On - Zhiyi Zhang; Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Lixia Zhang; Etienne Rivière (Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2021)

Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks - Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos; Etienne Rivière; Ioannis Psaras (ACM Trans. Internet Techn., 2021)

Shard scheduler: object placement and migration in sharded account-based blockchains - Michal Król; Onur Ascigil; Sergi Rene; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Etienne Rivière (AFT '21: 3rd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, Arlington, Virginia, USA, September 26 - 28, 2021, 2021)

Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Detecting Invalid Blocks in Light Clients - Mustafa Al-Bassam; Alberto Sonnino; Vitalik Buterin; Ismail Khoffi (Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 25th International Conference, FC 2021, Virtual Event, March 1-5, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, 2021)

Twins: BFT Systems Made Robust - Shehar Bano; Alberto Sonnino; Andrey Chursin; Dmitri Perelman; Zekun Li; Avery Ching; Dahlia Malkhi (25th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2021, December 13-15, 2021, Strasbourg, France, 2021)

Brief Announcement: Twins - BFT Systems Made Robust - Shehar Bano; Alberto Sonnino; Andrey Chursin; Dmitri Perelman; Zekun Li; Avery Ching; Dahlia Malkhi (35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing, DISC 2021, October 4-8, 2021, Freiburg, Germany (Virtual Conference), 2021)

Scaling Distributed Ledgers and Privacy-Preserving Applications - Alberto Sonnino (CoRR, 2021)

Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus - George Danezis; Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman (CoRR, 2021)

Jolteon and Ditto: Network-Adaptive Efficient Consensus with Asynchronous Fallback - Rati Gelashvili; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman; Zhuolun Xiang (CoRR, 2021)

Shard Scheduler: object placement and migration in sharded account-based blockchains - Michal Król; Onur Ascigil; Sergi Rene; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Etienne Rivière (CoRR, 2021)

Be Aware of Your Leaders - Shir Cohen; Rati Gelashvili; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Zekun Li; Dahlia Malkhi; Alberto Sonnino; Alexander Spiegelman (CoRR, 2021)

STROBE: Stake-based Threshold Random Beacons - Donald Beaver; Konstantinos Chalkias; Mahimna Kelkar; Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias; Kevin Lewi; Ladi de Naurois; Valeria Nicolaenko; Arnab Roy; Alberto Sonnino (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2021)

FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement - Mathieu Baudet; George Danezis; Alberto Sonnino (AFT '20: 2nd ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, New York, NY, USA, October 21-23, 2020, 2020)

Replay Attacks and Defenses Against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers - Alberto Sonnino; Shehar Bano; Mustafa Al-Bassam; George Danezis (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2020, Genoa, Italy, September 7-11, 2020, 2020)

PASTRAMI: Privacy-preserving, Auditable, Scalable & Trustworthy Auctions for Multiple Items - Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos; Ioannis Psaras; Etienne Rivière (Middleware '20: 21st International Middleware Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, December 7-11, 2020, 2020)

EL PASSO: Privacy-preserving, Asynchronous Single Sign-On - Zhiyi Zhang; Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Lixia Zhang; Etienne Rivière (CoRR, 2020)

FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement - Mathieu Baudet; George Danezis; Alberto Sonnino (CoRR, 2020)

PASTRAMI: Privacy-preserving, Auditable, Scalable & Trustworthy Auctions for Multiple Items - Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos; Ioannis Psaras; Etienne Rivière (CoRR, 2020)

Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing - Shehar Bano; Alberto Sonnino; Andrey Chursin; Dmitri Perelman; Dahlia Malkhi (CoRR, 2020)

SoK: Consensus in the Age of Blockchains - Shehar Bano; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Sarah Azouvi; Patrick McCorry; Sarah Meiklejohn; George Danezis (Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies, AFT 2019, Zurich, Switzerland, October 21-23, 2019, 2019)

Location, Location, Location: Revisiting Modeling and Exploitation for Location-Based Side Channel Leakages - Christos Andrikos; Lejla Batina; Lukasz Chmielewski; Liran Lerman; Vasilios Mavroudis; Kostas Papagiannopoulos; Guilherme Perin; Giorgos Rassias; Alberto Sonnino (Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2019 - 25th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Kobe, Japan, December 8-12, 2019, Proceedings, Part III, 2019)

Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks - Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos; Ioannis Psaras (IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2019, Seoul, Korea (South), May 14-17, 2019, 2019)

Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers - Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Shehar Bano; Sarah Meiklejohn; George Danezis (26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2019, San Diego, California, USA, February 24-27, 2019, 2019)

AStERISK: Auction-based Shared Economy ResolutIon System for blocKchain - Alberto Sonnino; Michal Król; Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos; Ioannis Psaras (CoRR, 2019)

Replay Attacks and Defenses against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers - Alberto Sonnino; Shehar Bano; Mustafa Al-Bassam; George Danezis (CoRR, 2019)

Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks - Michal Król; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos; Ioannis Psaras (CoRR, 2019)

SybilQuorum: Open Distributed Ledgers Through Trust Networks - Alberto Sonnino; George Danezis (CoRR, 2019)

FMPC: Secure Multiparty Computation from Fourier Series and Parseval's Identity - Alberto Sonnino (CoRR, 2019)

Location, location, location: Revisiting modeling and exploitation for location-based side channel leakages - Christos Andrikos; Lejla Batina; Lukasz Chmielewski; Liran Lerman; Vasilios Mavroudis; Kostas Papagiannopoulos; Guilherme Perin; Giorgos Rassias; Alberto Sonnino (IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch., 2019)

Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform - Mustafa Al-Bassam; Alberto Sonnino; Shehar Bano; Dave Hrycyszyn; George Danezis (25th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2018, San Diego, California, USA, February 18-21, 2018, 2018)

Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers - Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Shehar Bano; George Danezis (CoRR, 2018)

Airtnt: Fair Exchange Payment for Outsourced Secure Enclave Computations - Mustafa Al-Bassam; Alberto Sonnino; Michal Król; Ioannis Psaras (CoRR, 2018)

Fraud Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities - Mustafa Al-Bassam; Alberto Sonnino; Vitalik Buterin (CoRR, 2018)

Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform - Mustafa Al-Bassam; Alberto Sonnino; Shehar Bano; Dave Hrycyszyn; George Danezis (CoRR, 2017)

Consensus in the Age of Blockchains - Shehar Bano; Alberto Sonnino; Mustafa Al-Bassam; Sarah Azouvi; Patrick McCorry; Sarah Meiklejohn; George Danezis (CoRR, 2017)

A variable FPGA based generic QAM transmitter with scalable mixed time and frequency domain signal processing - Shalina Percy Delicia Figuli; Alberto Sonnino; Peter Figuli; Jürgen Becker (39th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing, TSP 2016, Vienna, Austria, June 27-29, 2016, 2016)

Elliptic-Curves Cryptography on High-Dimensional Surfaces - Alberto Sonnino; Giorgio Sonnino (CoRR, 2016)

Minimum Dissipation Principle in Nonlinear Transport - Giorgio Sonnino; Jarah Evslin; Alberto Sonnino (Entropy, 2015)