Alberto Sonnino

96 papers A* 7A 11B 8Journal 57Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 B conf
Thunderbolt: Concurrent Smart Contract Execution with Non-blocking Reconfiguration for Sharded DAGs.
EDBT
Junchao Chen, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Mohammad Sadoghi
2026 J jnl
Tidehunter: Large-Value Storage With Minimal Data Relocation.
CoRR
Andrey Chursin, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alex Orlov, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi
2025 J jnl
Beluga: Block Synchronization for BFT Consensus Protocols.
CoRR
Tasos Kichidis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Arun Koshy, Ilya Sergey, Alberto Sonnino, Mingwei Tian, Jianting Zhang
2025 J jnl
BlueBottle: Fast and Robust Blockchains through Subsystem Specialization.
CoRR
Preston Vander Vos, Alberto Sonnino, Giorgos Tsimos, Philipp Jovanovic, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2025 A conf
Byzantine Consensus in the Random Asynchronous Model.
DISC
George Danezis, Jovan Komatovic, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi
2025 J jnl
Byzantine Consensus in the Random Asynchronous Model.
CoRR
George Danezis, Jovan Komatovic, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi
2025 J jnl
Lifefin: Escaping Mempool Explosions in DAG-based BFT.
CoRR
Jianting Zhang, Sen Yang, Alberto Sonnino, Sebastián Loza, Aniket Kate
2025 A conf
Mahi-Mahi: Low-Latency Asynchronous BFT DAG-Based Consensus.
ICDCS
Philipp Jovanovic, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Bryan Kumara, Alberto Sonnino, Pasindu Tennage, Igor Zablotchi
2025 A* conf
Mysticeti: Reaching the Latency Limits with Uncertified DAGs.
NDSS
Kushal Babel, Andrey Chursin, George Danezis, Anastasios Kichidis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Arun Koshy, Alberto Sonnino, Mingwei Tian
2025 A conf
Pilotfish: Distributed Execution for Scalable Blockchains.
FC
Quentin Kniep, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi, Nuda Zhang
2025 — conf
Seahorse: Efficiently Mixing Encrypted and Normal Transactions.
FC (2)
Ben Riva, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2025 B conf
Securing Consensus from Long-Range Attacks Through Collaboration.
SRDS
Junchao Chen, Suyash Gupta, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Mohammad Sadoghi
2025 J jnl
Sedna: Sharding transactions in multiple concurrent proposer blockchains.
CoRR
Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa, Benjamin Marsh, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino
2025 J jnl
Stingray: Fast Concurrent Transactions Without Consensus.
CoRR
Srivatsan Sridhar, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2025 J jnl
Walrus: An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network.
CoRR
George Danezis, Giacomo Giuliari, Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Markus Legner, Jean-Pierre Smith, Alberto Sonnino, Karl Wüst
2024 A conf
An Empirical Study of Consensus Protocols' DoS Resilience.
AsiaCCS
Giacomo Giuliari, Alberto Sonnino, Marc Frei, Fabio Streun, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Adrian Perrig
2024 A* conf
Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery.
CCS
Nicolas Mohnblatt, Alberto Sonnino, Kobi Gurkan, Philipp Jovanovic
2024 B conf
BFT Consensus: From Academic Paper to Mainnet (Invited Talk).
OPODIS
Alberto Sonnino
2024 A conf
DISC-NG: Robust Service Discovery in the Ethereum Global Network.
EuroS&P
Michal Król, Onur Ascigil, Sergi Rene, Alberto Sonnino, Matthieu Pigaglio, Ramin Sadre, Felix Lange, Etienne Rivière
2024 — conf
Fastcrypto: Pioneering Cryptography Via Continuous Benchmarking.
ICPE (Companion)
Kostas Kryptos Chalkias, Jonas Lindstrøm, Deepak Maram, Ben Riva, Arnab Roy, Alberto Sonnino, Joy Wang
2024 J jnl
Fastcrypto: Pioneering Cryptography Via Continuous Benchmarking.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias, Jonas Lindstrøm, Deepak Maram, Ben Riva, Arnab Roy, Alberto Sonnino, Joy Wang
2024 A conf
HammerHead: Leader Reputation for Dynamic Scheduling.
ICDCS
Giorgos Tsimos, Anastasios Kichidis, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2024 J jnl
Mahi-Mahi: Low-Latency Asynchronous BFT DAG-Based Consensus.
CoRR
Philipp Jovanovic, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Bryan Kumara, Alberto Sonnino, Pasindu Tennage, Igor Zablotchi
2024 J jnl
Obelia: Scaling DAG-Based Blockchains to Hundreds of Validators.
CoRR
George Danezis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Mingwei Tian
2024 J jnl
Pilotfish: Distributed Transaction Execution for Lazy Blockchains.
CoRR
Quentin Kniep, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Igor Zablotchi, Nuda Zhang
2024 J jnl
Sloth: Key Stretching and Deniable Encryption using Secure Elements on Smartphones.
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.
Daniel Hugenroth, Alberto Sonnino, Sam Cutler, Alastair R. Beresford
2024 — conf
Subset-Optimized BLS Multi-signature with Key Aggregation.
FC (2)
Foteini Baldimtsi, Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias, François Garillot, Jonas Lindstrøm, Ben Riva, Arnab Roy, Mahdi Sedaghat, Alberto Sonnino, Pun Waiwitlikhit, Joy Wang
2024 A* conf
Sui Lutris: A Blockchain Combining Broadcast and Consensus.
CCS
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
2024 J jnl
Sunfish: Reading Ledgers with Sparse Nodes.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Giulia Scaffino, Karl Wüst, Deepak Maram, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2024 J jnl
Thunderbolt: Causal Concurrent Consensus and Execution.
CoRR
Junchao Chen, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Mohammad Sadoghi
2023 J jnl
Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Nicolas Mohnblatt, Alberto Sonnino, Kobi Gurkan, Philipp Jovanovic
2023 J jnl
Cuttlefish: Expressive Fast Path Blockchains with FastUnlock.
CoRR
Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, George Danezis
2023 J jnl
HammerHead: Leader Reputation for Dynamic Scheduling.
CoRR
Giorgos Tsimos, Anastasios Kichidis, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2023 J jnl
Mysticeti: Low-Latency DAG Consensus with Fast Commit Path.
CoRR
Kushal Babel, Andrey Chursin, George Danezis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino
2023 A* conf
Parakeet: Practical Key Transparency for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging.
NDSS
Harjasleen Malvai, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Esha Ghosh, Ercan Oztürk, Kevin Lewi, Sean F. Lawlor
2023 J jnl
Parakeet: Practical Key Transparency for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Harjasleen Malvai, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Esha Ghosh, Ercan Oztürk, Kevin Lewi, Sean F. Lawlor
2023 — conf
Performance of EdDSA and BLS Signatures in Committee-Based Consensus.
ApPLIED@PODC
Zhuolun Li, Alberto Sonnino, Philipp Jovanovic
2023 J jnl
Performance of EdDSA and BLS Signatures in Committee-Based Consensus.
CoRR
Zhuolun Li, Alberto Sonnino, Philipp Jovanovic
2023 A conf
Proof of Availability and Retrieval in a Modular Blockchain Architecture.
FC
Shir Cohen, Guy Goren, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman
2023 J jnl
Resilient Consensus Sustained Collaboratively.
CoRR
Junchao Chen, Suyash Gupta, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Mohammad Sadoghi
2023 B conf
STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons.
AFT
Donald Beaver, Konstantinos Chalkias, Mahimna Kelkar, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Kevin Lewi, Ladi de Naurois, Valeria Nikolaenko, Arnab Roy, Alberto Sonnino
2023 J jnl
Sloth: Key Stretching and Deniable Encryption using Secure Elements on Smartphones.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Daniel Hugenroth, Alberto Sonnino, Sam Cutler, Alastair R. Beresford
2023 J jnl
Subset-optimized BLS Multi-signature with Key Aggregation.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Foteini Baldimtsi, Konstantinos Kryptos Chalkias, François Garillot, Jonas Lindstrøm, Ben Riva, Arnab Roy, Alberto Sonnino, Pun Waiwitlikhit, Joy Wang
2023 J jnl
Sui Lutris: A Blockchain Combining Broadcast and Consensus.
CoRR
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
2023 — conf
Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments.
WPES@CCS
Mathieu Baudet, Alberto Sonnino, Mahimna Kelkar, George Danezis
2022 — conf
Be Aware of Your Leaders.
Financial Cryptography
Shir Cohen, Rati Gelashvili, Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Zekun Li, Dahlia Malkhi, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman
2022 A* conf
Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical.
CCS
Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2022 J jnl
Bullshark: DAG BFT Protocols Made Practical.
CoRR
Neil Giridharan, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman
2022 J jnl
Bullshark: The Partially Synchronous Version.
CoRR
Alexander Spiegelman, Neil Giridharan, Alberto Sonnino, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias
2022 — conf
Efficient DAG-Based Consensus (Invited Talk).
FAB
Alberto Sonnino
2022 J jnl
Efficient Multiparty Protocols Using Generalized Parseval's Identity and the Theta Algebra.
CoRR
Giorgio Sonnino, Alberto Sonnino
2022 — conf
Jolteon and Ditto: Network-Adaptive Efficient Consensus with Asynchronous Fallback.
Financial Cryptography
Rati Gelashvili, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman, Zhuolun Xiang
2022 J jnl
Low-latency, Scalable, DeFi with Zef.
CoRR
Mathieu Baudet, Alberto Sonnino, Michal Król
2022 A conf
Narwhal and Tusk: a DAG-based mempool and efficient BFT consensus.
EuroSys
George Danezis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman
2022 J jnl
Proof of Availability & Retrieval in a Modular Blockchain Architecture.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Guy Goren, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Shir Cohen, Alexander Spiegelman
2022 J jnl
Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments.
CoRR
Mathieu Baudet, Alberto Sonnino, Mahimna Kelkar, George Danezis
2022 J jnl
Zef: Low-latency, Scalable, Private Payments.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Mathieu Baudet, Alberto Sonnino, Mahimna Kelkar, George Danezis
2021 J jnl
Be Aware of Your Leaders.
CoRR
Shir Cohen, Rati Gelashvili, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Zekun Li, Dahlia Malkhi, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman
2021 A conf
Brief Announcement: Twins - BFT Systems Made Robust.
DISC
Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Andrey Chursin, Dmitri Perelman, Zekun Li, Avery Ching, Dahlia Malkhi
2021 J jnl
EL PASSO: Efficient and Lightweight Privacy-preserving Single Sign On.
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.
Zhiyi Zhang, Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Lixia Zhang, Etienne Rivière
2021 — conf
Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Detecting Invalid Blocks in Light Clients.
Financial Cryptography (2)
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Vitalik Buterin, Ismail Khoffi
2021 J jnl
Jolteon and Ditto: Network-Adaptive Efficient Consensus with Asynchronous Fallback.
CoRR
Rati Gelashvili, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman, Zhuolun Xiang
2021 J jnl
Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus.
CoRR
George Danezis, Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, Alexander Spiegelman
2021 J jnl
Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks.
ACM Trans. Internet Techn.
Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Etienne Rivière, Ioannis Psaras
2021 J jnl
STROBE: Stake-based Threshold Random Beacons.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Donald Beaver, Konstantinos Chalkias, Mahimna Kelkar, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Kevin Lewi, Ladi de Naurois, Valeria Nicolaenko, Arnab Roy, Alberto Sonnino
2021 J jnl
Scaling Distributed Ledgers and Privacy-Preserving Applications.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino
2021 — —
Scaling distributed ledgers and privacy-preserving applications.
Alberto Sonnino
2021 J jnl
Shard Scheduler: object placement and migration in sharded account-based blockchains.
CoRR
Michal Król, Onur Ascigil, Sergi Rene, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Etienne Rivière
2021 B conf
Shard scheduler: object placement and migration in sharded account-based blockchains.
AFT
Michal Król, Onur Ascigil, Sergi Rene, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Etienne Rivière
2021 B conf
Twins: BFT Systems Made Robust.
OPODIS
Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Andrey Chursin, Dmitri Perelman, Zekun Li, Avery Ching, Dahlia Malkhi
2020 J jnl
EL PASSO: Privacy-preserving, Asynchronous Single Sign-On.
CoRR
Zhiyi Zhang, Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Lixia Zhang, Etienne Rivière
2020 B conf
FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement.
AFT
Mathieu Baudet, George Danezis, Alberto Sonnino
2020 J jnl
FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement.
CoRR
Mathieu Baudet, George Danezis, Alberto Sonnino
2020 A conf
PASTRAMI: Privacy-preserving, Auditable, Scalable & Trustworthy Auctions for Multiple Items.
Middleware
Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras, Etienne Rivière
2020 J jnl
PASTRAMI: Privacy-preserving, Auditable, Scalable & Trustworthy Auctions for Multiple Items.
CoRR
Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras, Etienne Rivière
2020 A conf
Replay Attacks and Defenses Against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers.
EuroS&P
Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Mustafa Al-Bassam, George Danezis
2020 J jnl
Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing.
CoRR
Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Andrey Chursin, Dmitri Perelman, Dahlia Malkhi
2019 J jnl
AStERISK: Auction-based Shared Economy ResolutIon System for blocKchain.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino, Michal Król, Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras
2019 A* conf
Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers.
NDSS
Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Shehar Bano, Sarah Meiklejohn, George Danezis
2019 J jnl
FMPC: Secure Multiparty Computation from Fourier Series and Parseval's Identity.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino
2019 — conf
Location, Location, Location: Revisiting Modeling and Exploitation for Location-Based Side Channel Leakages.
ASIACRYPT (3)
Christos Andrikos, Lejla Batina, Lukasz Chmielewski, Liran Lerman, Vasilios Mavroudis, Kostas Papagiannopoulos, Guilherme Perin, Giorgos Rassias, Alberto Sonnino
2019 J jnl
Location, location, location: Revisiting modeling and exploitation for location-based side channel leakages.
IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
Christos Andrikos, Lejla Batina, Lukasz Chmielewski, Liran Lerman, Vasilios Mavroudis, Kostas Papagiannopoulos, Guilherme Perin, Giorgos Rassias, Alberto Sonnino
2019 — conf
Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks.
IEEE ICBC
Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras
2019 J jnl
Proof-of-Prestige: A Useful Work Reward System for Unverifiable Tasks.
CoRR
Michal Król, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Argyrios G. Tasiopoulos, Ioannis Psaras
2019 J jnl
Replay Attacks and Defenses against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Mustafa Al-Bassam, George Danezis
2019 B conf
SoK: Consensus in the Age of Blockchains.
AFT
Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn, George Danezis
2019 J jnl
SybilQuorum: Open Distributed Ledgers Through Trust Networks.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino, George Danezis
2018 J jnl
Airtnt: Fair Exchange Payment for Outsourced Secure Enclave Computations.
CoRR
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Michal Król, Ioannis Psaras
2018 A* conf
Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform.
NDSS
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn, George Danezis
2018 J jnl
Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Shehar Bano, George Danezis
2018 J jnl
Fraud Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities.
CoRR
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Vitalik Buterin
2017 J jnl
Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform.
CoRR
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn, George Danezis
2017 J jnl
Consensus in the Age of Blockchains.
CoRR
Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn, George Danezis
2016 — conf
A variable FPGA based generic QAM transmitter with scalable mixed time and frequency domain signal processing.
TSP
Shalina Percy Delicia Figuli, Alberto Sonnino, Peter Figuli, Jürgen Becker
2016 J jnl
Elliptic-Curves Cryptography on High-Dimensional Surfaces.
CoRR
Alberto Sonnino, Giorgio Sonnino
2015 J jnl
Minimum Dissipation Principle in Nonlinear Transport.
Entropy
Giorgio Sonnino, Jarah Evslin, Alberto Sonnino