Thinkey: A Scalable Blockchain Architecture
This addresses scalability issues for blockchain systems, though it appears incremental in its approach.
The paper tackles the problem of blockchain scalability by proposing Thinkey, a multi-layer architecture with a double-chain design and novel account model, achieving higher throughput as node count increases.
This paper presents Thinkey, an efficient, secure, infinitely scalable and decentralized blockchain architecture. It ensures system correctness and liveness by a multi-layer structure. In particular, the system is based on a double-chain architecture and uses a multi-layer consensus protocol to guarantee consistency. Thinkey also uses a novel account model which is based on Actor Model to support the complex logic in the multi-chain structure. Experiment results show that the proposed Thinkey architecture can achieve higher throughput as the number of nodes increases.