Blockchain Consensus Research

This repo holds my personal notes on modern blockchain consensus mechanisms. It is organized hierarchically, split between Consensus and Cryptography. Most reference code is in Rust.

• Consensus
• Cryptography

Consensus

Base layer consensus protocols that take inspiration or closely resemble PBFT

• BEAT: Asynchronous BFT Made Practical
• HoneyBadgerBFT
• Ouroboros

Related Research

• Layer 2 Scaling Mechanisms encompasses all off-chain message passing that uses the base chain for dispute resolution (including Lightning, State Channels, Plasma, and Zero Knowledge Rollups)
• Ancillary Mechanisms includes fee structures, finality mechanisms, and uncle blocks
• Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) protocols includes CasperCBC, SPECTRE, Casanova

Cryptography

WIP