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What changed

Ouroboros: the paper is the slots. The network is later.

The design divides time into slots and samples leaders from a stake snapshot. A live chain adds clients, parameters, delegation and an exit. Those are not the proof.

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Original thesis

Stake, measured at a snapshot, elects slot leaders. The security argument is about that election, not about a yield.

What changed

Delegation let holders assign stake without running a node. Liquid-staking receipts, where they exist, add a second asset. A published rate is not part of the Ouroboros claim.

What remains useful

Read the paper for the stake and slot mechanism. Read a current client and a current parameter page for the network. Do not collapse them.