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Monthly Chartbook - A New Consensus?
ABC News The “Washington Consensus” refers to the set of economic policies that the United States and...Following the Cold War, this “consensus” became gospel....The adverse impact of the old Washington Consensus is not lost on President Biden....In Sullivan’s view, these challenges “demand that we forge a new consensus.”...
27 Min
Macro & Markets
May 2023
We're In Goblintown & The Return Of Wolf Game
State of the Market The consensus is that we’re in a bear market right now: the question on most people...State of the Market The consensus is that we’re in a bear market right now: the question on most people...
13 Min
NFTs
May 2022
Sui's Q1 Wrapped: BitcoinFi, MEV, and Scaling
...object-based fee markets and MEV-aware optimizations, including prioritized transaction submission and consensus...Traditionally, a Sui validator was monolithic, handling consensus, data fetching, and state execution...design, where consensus is achieved over batch metadata instead of full transaction data....SIP-45 adds consensus amplification.
13 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Something’s Gotta Give
When consensus starts to gravitate towards one side, it doesn’t take much to rock the boat.
7 Min
Macro & Markets
Jan 2025
Aptos: Infrastructure for the Financial Internet
The upcoming Raptr consensus update and BlockSTM v2 are instances where Aptos independently swaps consensus...Consensus on metadata and proofs instead of full transactions....These stages are “shadowed” by consensus rounds....Consensus Scalability – Quorum Store Most consensus mechanisms are monolithic.
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Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Supra - Vertical Integration with The Intralayer
Supra utilizes a formally verified consensus protocol called Moonshot. ...connection with every other consensus node....To this end, SupraChain uses the BFT Moonshot consensus....Traditional BFT protocols require a consensus of 67%, but  Supra can increase the required consensus...
39 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2024
What Should Crypto Do About Consumer Fraud?
A point of consensus was the basic agreement that the “industry” should address fraud, but there was...It brings to mind the deep disagreements around rough social consensus being a remedy based on mob rule...Again, there was generally a consensus of “yes” there should be standards, but beyond that, there is...
14 Min
Policy
Nov 2023
Avalanche L1s: Powering the Future of Appchains
At a high level, Avalanche comes with a high-performance consensus, customizable virtual machines (VMs...Snow Family Consensus Avalanche’s consensus mechanism is a crucial piece of infra....A smaller number of validators also means it’s easier for bad actors to sway consensus. ...
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Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Sui Network: Demystifying the Monolithic Contender
Owned objects do not require consensus for state changes....eliminating the need for additional communication overhead during consensus....They act as intermediaries between the consensus layer and the execution layer....This affects how transactions are disseminated and the consensus is reached.
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Dec 2024
Sui’s Q2: On-Chain UX Primitives, BTCFi Expansion, Scaling Production
The architectural bets made in Q1, such as fast-path consensus in Mysticeti v2, Pilotfish, and Move VM...Instead of one massive process handling consensus, execution, and storage, Remora decouples these into...Consensus remains DAG-based and low-latency via Mysticeti....Low-latency finality – explicit path selection avoids congested routes, reducing consensus round-trip...
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Infrastructure
Aug 2025
WTF Is Anoma? Part 3: WTF is Typhon?
We now shift our focus to Typhon; Anoma’s mempool, consensus and execution engine. ...In Comet there are 3 steps in consensus: propose, pre-commit, and commit....consensus on metadata is cheap....Consensus gets rid of the “baggage” that is transaction data which just skips consensus and goes straight...
28 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2023
MegaETH: Performance to Compete With TradFi
...look at transaction latency, it is a compounding issue which accumulates across network propagation, consensus...In an L1, consensus and frequent communication between geographically dispersed nodes is a source of...Consensus-Free: One of the most opinionated decision by MegaETH is not to add consensus to the sequencer...
21 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jan 2025
Solo, Liquid, or Centralized: A Guide to Staking ETH
Binance: Users retain all consensus layer (CL) rewards, while Binance retains all execution layer (EL...clients assume a free service AWS-Hosted Execution and Consensus Client + AWS-Hosted Validator:...Third-Party Execution Client + AWS-Hosted Consensus Client + AWS-Hosted Validator: This setup is more...
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Liquid Staking
Jun 2023
Vitalik's Warning
...recent blog post published by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin titled, “Don’t overload Ethereum’s consensus...In his view, it’s crucial that Ethereum social consensus always stay neutral in a potential conflict...We think hard forks at Ethereum layer should be reserved for consensus layer errors (if any) and consensus...
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Staking
Jun 2023
Skip: Building Blocks in Cosmos
For the first point, social consensus is so far working in that no validator has chosen to accept “bad...to be programmable, creating a tighter connection between the app and consensus layer....fee markets with consensus-forced ordering (instead of FIFO), app-aware fee markets to dynamically adjust...
22 Min
MEV
Apr 2023
...and verify their signatures (consensus votes)....We have evaluated projects that primarily focus on proving the consensus of Cosmos chains....This consensus is run by the sync committee....Succinct’s future roadmap involves proving the full Ethereum consensus....The verification logic of ZK-bridges is tightly coupled with consensus.
18 Min
Bridges
Feb 2023
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
The ZK argument: ZK can’t speed up native consensus....Deferred Execution: In Monad, execution is decoupled from consensus....Consensus: Uses an Async BFT mechanism + DAG....They can come to consensus individually and share blocks async....Each committee then sends their proofs to the main shard for global consensus.
128 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2024
Based Rollups: The New ETH Alignment
Based sequencing requires no sequencer signature verification, no escape hatch, no external PoS consensus...Consensus....Rollups choosing to be based will have the same three layers from Ethereum (DA, Settlement, and Consensus...Based rollups don’t have to worry about this since they will be reusing: Ethereum consensus (Execution...Consensus proposers !
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Infrastructure
Mar 2024
The Future of ETH Liquid Staking
Introduction Proof-of-stake (PoS) is a consensus mechanism used in blockchains to process transactions...Rewards for staked ETH come from two sources — the consensus layer and the execution layer....The consensus-layer rewards are fixed, and emitted based on the amount of ETH staked....Consensus-Layer Rewards: As mentioned above, yields decline as more ETH is staked.
15 Min
Liquid Staking
Jan 2023
Superchain and the Monolithic Experience
A light client helps one chain to verify the state and consensus of another chain before processing a...There is one bridge between Ethereum to Gnosis that verifies Ethereum’s consensus on the Gnosis Chain...for rollups as they all operate under Ethereum consensus....In IBC, a cross-chain message is validated by the consensus of a chain.
67 Min
Layer 2 / L2
May 2024