  Blockchain technologies have been rapidly enhanced in recent years. However,
its scalability still has limitations in terms of throughput and broadcast
delay as the network and the amount of transaction data increase. To improve
scalability of blockchain networks, we propose a novel approach named PiChu
that accelerates block propagation in blockchain networks by pipelining and
verifying chunks of a block in parallel. Accelerating block propagation reduces
the mining interval and chance of fork occurring, which in turn increases
throughput. Our approach can be applied to the blockchain networks either
directly or with a minor modification to the consensus. Through an extensive
and large scale simulations, we validate that the proposed PiChu scheme
significantly enhances the scalability of blockchain networks. For instance, a
64 MB block can be broadcasted in just 80 seconds in a blockchain network with
a million nodes. The efficiency of PiChu broadcasting increases with bigger
block sizes and a larger number of nodes in the network.
