<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://dakaikang.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://dakaikang.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-05-17T06:51:10+00:00</updated><id>https://dakaikang.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Dakai Kang</title><subtitle>PhD candidate, UC Davis ExpoLab — Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus and distributed systems.</subtitle><author><name>Dakai Kang</name><email>dakang@ucdavis.edu</email></author><entry><title type="html">Carry: HotStuff Linearity with Tail-Forking-Resilience</title><link href="https://dakaikang.github.io/carry-the-tail/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Carry: HotStuff Linearity with Tail-Forking-Resilience" /><published>2025-09-27T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-09-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dakaikang.github.io/carry-the-tail</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://dakaikang.github.io/carry-the-tail/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name>Dakai Kang</name><email>dakang@ucdavis.edu</email></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Defending streamlined BFT consensus against tail-forking attacks with only linear per-view communication. Co-authored with Suyash Gupta, Dahlia Malkhi, and Mohammad Sadoghi. Published at Decentralized Thoughts.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">HotStuff-1 and the Prefix Speculation Dilemma in BFT Consensus</title><link href="https://dakaikang.github.io/hotstuff1/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="HotStuff-1 and the Prefix Speculation Dilemma in BFT Consensus" /><published>2024-08-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2024-08-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://dakaikang.github.io/hotstuff1</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://dakaikang.github.io/hotstuff1/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name>Dakai Kang</name><email>dakang@ucdavis.edu</email></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[How HotStuff-1, PBFT, and Zyzzyva each navigate the prefix speculation dilemma when reducing latency in BFT consensus. Co-authored with Suyash Gupta, Dahlia Malkhi, and Mohammad Sadoghi. Published at Decentralized Thoughts.]]></summary></entry></feed>