Coordination Collapse and the Optimality of Silence: Two Results That Break Standard BFT and Oracle Design ethresear.ch
Two results say silence can be optimal and standard BFT/oracle assumptions break when coordination collapses.
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01 02 Coordination Collapse and the Optimality of Silence: Two Result That Break Standard BFT and Oracle Design ethresear.chCan correlated validators be worth less, and should an oracle sometimes stay silent instead of publishing bad data?03 Minimmit, Multimmit and the New Consensus Frontier with Patrick O'Grady - ZK PODCAST zeroknowledge.fmWhat are Minimmit and Multimmit, and why does Commonware call them an anti-framework for faster consensus?04 Diagnosing High-Performance BFT Consensus via Mixture Modeling of Block Time Distributions arxiv.orgAptos stays bimodal after an upgrade, while Hyperliquid looks unimodal; the paper fits HotStuff block times with mixture models.05 Paper on aggregated vector consensus and Juno, an async common subset protocol with O(n^2) messages and a benchmarked implementation.06 Can two rounds and prefix consensus keep BFT from timing out every other view? Hermes says yes, via a heaviest-common-prefix trick.07 Two rounds, rotating leaders, and prefix votes, Hermes tries to stop slow leaders from poisoning tail latency.