Actors and Blockchains, Together

Xiaohong Chen; Grigore Rosu

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-05291-9_9

Actors and Blockchains, Together

Xiaohong Chen
, Grigore Rosu

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Abstract

FastSet is a distributed protocol for decentralized finance and settlement, which is inspired from both actors and blockchains. Account holders cooperate by making claims, which can include payments, holding and transferring assets, accessing and updating shared data, medical records, digital identity, and mathematical theorems, among others. The claims are signed by their owners and are broadcast to a decentralized network of validators, which validate and settle them. Validators replicate the global state of the accounts and need not communicate with each other. In sharp contrast to blockchains, strong consistency is purposely given up as a requirement. Yet, many if not most of the blockchain benefits are preserved, while capitalizing on actor’s massive parallelism.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Pages	215-236
Number of pages	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05291-9_9
State	Published - 2026

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	LNCS 16120
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Keywords

Actor model
Blockchain
Concurrency
Distributed system

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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