papers/lux-pq-consensus-benchmarks/references.bib

% --- Lux Improvement Proposals ---

@misc{lp020,
  title = {LP-020: Quasar Consensus 3.0},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-020-quasar-consensus.md}},
}

@misc{lp070,
  title = {LP-070: FIPS 204 ML-DSA Signatures},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-070-mldsa.md}},
}

@misc{lp073,
  title = {LP-073: Pulsar --- Dynamic Lattice Threshold Signatures},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-073-corona.md}},
}

@misc{lp075,
  title = {LP-075: BLS Aggregate Signatures for Warp Messaging},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-075-bls-aggregate.md}},
}

@misc{lp077,
  title = {LP-077: Linear Shamir's Secret Sharing},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-077-linear-shamir.md}},
}

@misc{lp103,
  author = {{Lux Industries}},
  title = {{LP-103}: Lens --- Curve-Based Threshold Signatures},
  howpublished = {Lux Improvement Proposal},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{lp105,
  author = {{Lux Industries}},
  title = {{LP-105}: The Lux Finality Stack},
  howpublished = {Lux Improvement Proposal},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{lp137,
  title = {LP-137: GPU-Native Crypto Stack},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-137.md}},
}

@misc{lp164,
  title = {LP-164: Six-Step NTT and Crossover Thresholds},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-164-six-step-ntt.md}},
}

@misc{lp307,
  title = {LP-307: Z-Chain Groth16 Rollup},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lps/blob/main/LP-307-z-chain-rollup.md}},
}

% --- Companion Lux papers ---

@misc{luxpulsar,
  author = {Zach Kelling},
  title = {Pulsar: Dynamic Lattice Threshold Signatures for Permissionless Validator Sets},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries, Inc.; \texttt{papers/lp-073-pulsar/}},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{luxlssmpc,
  author = {Vishnu J. Seesahai and Zach Kelling},
  title = {{LSS}: A Universal Lifecycle Framework for Threshold Cryptographic Protocols},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries, Inc.},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{luxquasarhorizon,
  author = {Zach Kelling},
  title = {Quasar Horizon: Hybrid Post-Quantum Finality over DAG-Native Nebula Roots},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries, Inc.; \texttt{papers/lux-quasar-horizon/}},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{luxwarpv2,
  author = {Zach Kelling},
  title = {Warp 2.0: Pulse-Backed Cross-Chain Source Finality},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries, Inc.; \texttt{papers/lux-warp-v2/}},
  year = {2026}
}

@misc{luxfhebenchmarks,
  author = {Zach Kelling},
  title = {{FHE} Benchmarking, Cost Models, and Operational {SLO}s},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries, Inc.; \texttt{papers/lux-fhe-benchmarks/}},
  year = {2025}
}

@misc{quasarcertsoundness,
  author = {Zach Kelling},
  title = {{QuasarCert} Soundness},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries; \texttt{lux/proofs/quasar-cert-soundness.tex}},
  year = {2026}
}

% --- Source canonicals ---

@techreport{pulsar,
  author      = {Zach Kelling},
  title       = {{LP-073}: Pulsar --- Module-{LWE} Rank-$k$ Threshold {ML-DSA}
                 for Permissionless Validator Sets},
  number      = {LP-073},
  institution = {Lux Industries, Inc.},
  year        = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/pulsar}},
  note        = {Lux's own threshold {ML-DSA} (FIPS~204) over Module-{LWE} at
                 general rank~$k$; canonical {LP-073}. Distinct from Corona
                 (rank~1) and from Ringtail (\cite{ringtail}).}
}

@misc{lensgo,
  title = {Lens (Go canonical)},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lens}},
}

@misc{thresholdgo,
  title = {Threshold (Go canonical)},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/threshold}},
}

@misc{consensusgo,
  title = {Consensus (Go canonical)},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/consensus}},
}

@misc{warpgo,
  title = {Warp (Go canonical)},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/warp}},
}

@misc{lattigov7,
  title = {Lattigo v7 (Lux fork)},
  author = {{Lux Core Team}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/luxfi/lattice}},
}

% --- Standards ---

@misc{fips204,
  title = {FIPS 204: Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard},
  author = {{NIST}},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final}},
}

@misc{fips205,
  title = {FIPS 205: Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard},
  author = {{NIST}},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/205/final}},
}

@misc{rfc9591,
  author = {Deirdre Connolly and Chelsea Komlo and Ian Goldberg and Christopher A. Wood},
  title = {{RFC 9591}: The {FROST} Protocol},
  howpublished = {RFC Editor},
  year = {2024}
}

% --- Academic ---

@misc{ringtail,
  author       = {Cecilia Boschini and Darya Kaviani and Russell W. F. Lai and
                  Giulio Malavolta and Akira Takahashi and Mehdi Tibouchi},
  title        = {Ringtail: Practical Two-Round Threshold Signatures from {LWE}},
  year         = {2024},
  howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2024/1113;
                  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S\&P) 2025},
  url          = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1113},
  note         = {Academic two-round lattice threshold (IACR ePrint 2024/1113, IEEE S\&P 2025).
                  Not a Lux artifact; do not relabel as "Corona" or "Pulsar".}
}

% --- Named-competitor scaffold references (added Apr 2026) ---

@misc{buchman2016tendermint,
  author = {Ethan Buchman},
  title  = {Tendermint: Byzantine Fault Tolerance in the Age of Blockchains},
  year   = {2016},
  howpublished = {M.Sc.\ thesis, University of Guelph},
  note   = {\url{https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/5459099e-67aa-4a83-b816-25c6752e0afe}}
}

@misc{cometbftgithub,
  title = {{CometBFT}: A distributed, Byzantine fault-tolerant, deterministic state machine replication engine},
  author = {{CometBFT Authors}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft}}
}

@inproceedings{yin2019hotstuff,
  author    = {Maofan Yin and Dahlia Malkhi and Michael K. Reiter and Guy Golan Gueta and Ittai Abraham},
  title     = {{HotStuff}: {BFT} Consensus with Linearity and Responsiveness},
  booktitle = {ACM PODC},
  year      = {2019},
  note      = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05069}}
}

@misc{malkhi2023hotstuff2,
  author = {Dahlia Malkhi and Kartik Nayak},
  title  = {{HotStuff-2}: Optimal Two-Phase Responsive {BFT}},
  year   = {2023},
  howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/397},
  note   = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/397}}
}

@misc{rocket2019avalanche,
  author = {{Team Rocket}},
  title  = {Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless {BFT} Consensus through Metastability},
  year   = {2019},
  howpublished = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08936}}
}

@misc{amores2024avalanche,
  author = {Ignacio Amores-Sesar and Philipp Schneider and Christian Cachin},
  title  = {An Analysis of {Avalanche} Consensus},
  year   = {2024},
  howpublished = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02811}}
}

@inproceedings{babel2024mysticeti,
  author    = {Kushal Babel and George Danezis and Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias and Alberto Sonnino},
  title     = {{Mysticeti}: Reaching the Limits of Latency with Uncertified {DAG}s},
  booktitle = {NDSS},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {arXiv:2310.14821; \url{https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~babel/papers/mysticeti.pdf}}
}

@misc{alqahtani2021bottlenecks,
  author = {Salem Alqahtani and Murat Demirbas},
  title  = {Bottlenecks in Blockchain Consensus Protocols},
  year   = {2021},
  howpublished = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04234}}
}

@misc{supranationalblst,
  title  = {{blst}: Multilingual {BLS12-381} signature library},
  author = {{Supranational}},
  year   = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/supranational/blst}}
}

@misc{luxevmgpu,
  author = {Zach Kelling},
  title  = {{GPU}-Accelerated {EVM} Execution: Measured Benchmarks on Apple {M1} Max {Metal}},
  howpublished = {Lux Industries, Inc.; \texttt{papers/evmgpu-benchmark/}},
  year   = {2026}
}