Pith Number

pith:R2KSGBAD

pith:2021:R2KSGBADEXDLXKCAFCKTFAM2MQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Building Blocks of Sharding Blockchain Systems: Concepts, Approaches, and Open Problems

Bin Hu, Fritz Henglein, Jianwei Liu, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Rongxing Lu, Tong Li, Yizhong Liu, Zongyang Zhang

arxiv:2102.13364 v1 · 2021-02-26 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R2KSGBADEXDLXKCAFCKTFAM2MQ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:18:36.807674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e9523040325c6bba840289532819a6413740f8801518ac9991da5bd81a3cf76

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.13364 · arxiv_version: 2102.13364v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.13364 · pith_short_12: R2KSGBADEXDL · pith_short_16: R2KSGBADEXDLXKCA · pith_short_8: R2KSGBAD

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R2KSGBADEXDLXKCAFCKTFAM2MQ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8e9523040325c6bba840289532819a6413740f8801518ac9991da5bd81a3cf76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e19f0438080fb967a5e4684005f134a3b9bbf2d0ef5963c6d1e80266fabd5563",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-26T09:12:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a96722c5995f469f575a363a1b19ac8aed4e84ee63bf541e6037d784d469e3f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.13364",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}