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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Snowflake to Avalanche: A Novel Metastable Consensus Protocol Family |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | A family of consensus protocols that sample the network repeatedly and tip toward one outcome. The 2018 note was pseudonymous. A later write-up adds named co-authors. Avalanche the network is an implementation, not the sample itself. |
| Who may write | Team Rocket; later with Maofan Yin, Kevin Sekniqi, Robbert van Renesse and Emin Gün Sirer |
| What is settled | Snowflake and Snowball are binary decision protocols built from repeated subsampling. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Do not quote the paper as a measured throughput of the Avalanche network. |
| What this library says afterwards | Metastability is not finality in the classical BFT sense. The paper's own confidence notion has to be read, not translated into a slogan. |
| Rights | Official external source only |