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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 | Combining GHOST and Casper |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | An idealised proof-of-stake protocol that pairs a GHOST-style fork choice with Casper FFG finality. The paper is the design argument for Ethereum's beacon chain, not a status report on a later client or a later outage. |
| Who may write | Vitalik Buterin, Diego Hernandez, Thor Kamphefner, Khiem Pham, Zhi Qiao, Danny Ryan, Juhyeok Sin, Ying Wang and Yan X. Zhang |
| What is settled | Validators stake and attest. The latest attestation from each validator is the one that counts. |
| Load-bearing assumption | This is an idealisation of a proposed beacon chain. It is not a description of every later Ethereum fork. |
| What this library says afterwards | A finalised checkpoint is a protocol object. It is not a legal settlement and not a price. |
| Rights | Official external source only |