"Scaling Blockchains with Error Correction Codes: A Survey on Coded Blo" by Changlin Yang, Kwan Wu Chin et al.
A fundamental issue in blockchain systems is their scalability in terms of data storage, computation, communication, and security. To resolve this issue, a promising research direction is coding theory, which is widely used for distributed storage, recovery from erasures or channel errors and/or to reduce communication cost. To this end, this article provides the first comprehensive survey of approaches that employ coding theory to scale blockchain systems. It shows how the use of coded symbols or shards allow participants to only store a fraction of the total blockchain, protect against malic...
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