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QuestionStreamlet: Textbook Streamlined Blockchains
What the text proposesA deliberately small consensus protocol: epochs, a leader, a vote, and a rule that three adjacent certified blocks on the same chain become final. The point is to show how little machinery the last few years of BFT designs actually need.
Who may writeBenjamin Y. Chan and Elaine Shi
What is settledEach epoch has a leader who proposes one block extending the longest certified chain.
Load-bearing assumptionA textbook protocol is not a production client. Timeouts, networking and signature aggregation are left as engineering.
What this library says afterwardsSimplicity does not remove the one-third bound.
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