Mission

ConsensusLab explores fundamental problems of coordination, consistency, and scalability in decentralised systems.

Goals

ConsensusLab’s vision is to be the go-to place for scalable decentralised consensus research. In the true spirit of Protocol Labs Research, we aim to become a hub for the collaborative advancement of human knowledge on this challenging topic. Together with a wide network of academic and industry partners, and in collaboration with other open projects, our team will be building an engine for the decentralised web.

ConsensusLab’s short to mid-term focus is on rearchitecting and implementing Filecoin consensus in a scalable way so it can be used in Filecoin, supporting current Filecoin actors and beyond. The project will not incrementally upgrade existing Filecoin consensus but re-implement consensus layer from scratch in a secure, modular, scalable and upgradable way.

Visit consensuslab.world to learn more about our us.

Research Endeavours

Our current research directions can be seen in our roadmap.

Team, Publications, Talks, and Demos

See the ConsensusLab page in the PL Research website and our YouTube playlist.

Weekly updates

We publish weekly SitReps summarising the team's activities.

Talk to us

We work in the open! Take part in our discussions, comment on issues, and joins us in #consensus in the Filecoin Slack workspace.

Join us

We occasionally hire for roles at ConsensusLab. Visit PL's job page to learn more and apply.