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A small Spring Boot application that demonstrates building a RESTful API to manage personal financial transactions using an in-memory list and the Java Stream API. This project is part of the Ostad ...

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Abstract: Sharding is a promising solution to address the scalability challenge of blockchains by enabling parallel transaction processing across multiple shards. However, handling diverse cross-shard ...

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