Quantum computing provides the feasible multi-layered security challenges to classical blockchain systems. Quantum blockchains that relies on quantum key distribution (QKD) to establish secure channels can address this feasible threat. Whereas, there are still architecture limitations to practical security resulted in the measurement devices while implementing the QKD-based blockchains in physical layer. This paper presents a distributed architecture in quantum blockchain to address the connectivity and distance limitations of the QKD-secured networks. A decoupled architecture is designed felicitously so that it pairs a linearly scalable measurement-device-independent (MDI) physical layer with a decentralized consensus.It can optimize the complexity of infrastructure from quadratic to linear scaling, ascribed to leveraging the twin-field (TF) QKD protocol with the MDI-structurized star topology. Additionally, the dual-key stratification strategy transforms symmetric information-theoretic security into publicly auditable forward-secret blockchain evidence. This architecture can integrate information-theoretic security with distributed consensus mechanisms, allowing the scalable system to overcome the potential rate-loss limits inherent in traditional security-weakened blockchains.

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