@InProceedings{delarocha:OASIcs.FAB.2022.3, author = {de la Rocha, Alfonso}, title = {{Hierarchical Consensus: A Horizontal Scaling Framework for Blockchains}}, booktitle = {5th International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain 2022 (FAB 2022)}, pages = {3:1--3:1}, series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-248-8}, ISSN = {2190-6807}, year = {2022}, volume = {101}, editor = {Tucci-Piergiovanni, Sara and Crooks, Natacha}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.FAB.2022.3}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162709}, doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.FAB.2022.3}, annote = {Keywords: blockchain, consensus, distributed systems, P2P, scalability, sharding} }