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A survey on blockchain consensus mechanisms: security analysis and future prospects

Sep 2026 · Cluster Computing · Vol 29 · 0 citations · 128 references

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This survey reviews blockchain consensus from a security-oriented lens and links distributed-systems fundamentals to concrete attack vectors and defense mechanisms and outlines open problems including the post-quantum cryptographic transition, cross-shard security and atomicity in sharded consensus, and adaptive defenses resilient to evolving network and economic adversaries.

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