RainBlock: Faster Transaction Processing Architecture for Public Blockchains

Watch a 42-minute technical conference talk exploring RAINBLOCK, a novel public blockchain architecture that significantly improves transaction processing throughput without modifying proof-of-work consensus. Learn how removing I/O bottlenecks from transaction processing and implementing a distributed, multi-versioned DSM-TREE data structure enables miners to process substantially more transactions within existing time constraints. Discover the technical details behind RAINBLOCK's ability to achieve 27.4K transactions per second on a single miner - 27 times higher than Ethereum - and maintain 20K transactions per second in geo-distributed environments across four regions. Presented by Soujanya Ponnapalli from The University of Texas at Austin, dive deep into the architecture's key innovations, including I/O parallelism, persistence challenges, compact witnesses, and snapshots. Gain valuable insights into how RAINBLOCK addresses fundamental blockchain scalability issues through architectural optimization rather than consensus protocol modifications.