This talk provides an overview of the latest advancements with respect to PoW consensus protocols, including both new protocol designs and their analyses. It was delivered by Dr. Ren Zhang on March 30, 2023, as an episode of the Cryptape Vanguard 2020-2022 Blockchain Research Panorama Series.

Dr. Ren Zhang is the head of Cryptape Vanguard Research team. He received his Ph.D. in 2019 from the COSIC research team, KU Leuven, supervised by Prof. Bart Preneel. He has been a Program Committee member of Network and Distributed System Security and Financial Cryptography and Data Security since 2021.

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