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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. ...
22 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
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
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.
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
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
Squads' Expansion from Multisigs to Crypto-Native Fintech Infrastructure
...multiple stakeholders are required to approve transactions to ensure a higher degree of security and consensus...The update introduces vital features such as key-tier adaptive time locks, consensus customization using...of Squads v5 Squads v5 introduces critical updates enhancing usability and security: Programmable Consensus...
26 Min
Infrastructure
Feb 2025
ZKsync & Elastic Network's Q1 Wrapped: Ecosystem & Development Highlights
Decentralization advances with the new ChonkyBFT consensus and progress towards decentralizing the sequencer...ZK Chains, independent, parallel-running instances of the zkEVM that achieve consensus and finality on...The network’s dynamic consensus mechanism is dubbed “Optimistic Democracy”....The new consensus is accessible to all ZK Chains.
19 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
Plasma: Stablecoin Infrastructure & The Trillion Dollar Opportunity
There are a few components in Plasma’s architecture that make this possible: PlasmaBFT Consensus PlasmaBFT...This significantly reduces consensus overhead while still preserving liveness guarantees under partial...decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2023-04-01-hotstuff-2/ PlasmaBFT relies on Quorum Certificates (QCs) to move securely through consensus...
28 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Initia: Fulfilling The Appchain Vision
When everyone launches a chain, why should the social consensus converge to a view of the multichain...Rollups can also deploy fully decentralized sequencers because they are built using CometBFT consensus...It employs CometBFT (formerly Tendermint) for consensus and features a native execution environment for...
31 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2025
EVM Wars: Between Giga Gas and Giga Gimmicks
...interesting things about Sonic is not its 5 giga gas/s limit on mainnet or 0.6s block times or PBFT consensus...Sei On their internal devnet, Sei reached 5 Ggas/s and has been tweaking their consensus and DB to sustain...Dropping off consensus as an L2 is one of the main factors that allows them to reach these numbers.
13 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Mar 2025
Beyond the $HYPE: An Objective Analysis of Hyperliquid
Architecture Fundamentally, the Hyperliquid platform is composed of three core modules: HyperBFT: Custom consensus...time of writing, the rust-based VM supports approximately 100k orders/sec, again making execution (not consensus...HyperEVM: Separate, general purpose EVM that also sits on top of the HyperBFT consensus mechanism.
17 Min
DeFi
Feb 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
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
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
April Showers… May Flowers? - Macro & Markets May 2025
We highlighted this extreme turn at the time — “Are Investors Too Bearish” — and how quickly consensus...When consensus gets too far to one extreme, ripe opportunities can rise to the surface.
25 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
Market Musings - New Year, More Volatility
The FOMC shocked markets in a big way with their outlook, and this type of shock to consensus expectation...When consensus starts to gravitate towards one side, it doesn’t take much to rock the boat.
13 Min
Macro & Markets
Jan 2025
A Proposed SEC Interim Safe Harbor Framework
Development Team, and, if applicable for the model, measures the ownership concentration for the means of consensus...software that uses, modifies, distributes, or integrates with the Network, participating in governance or consensus...
20 Min
Policy
Mar 2025
Celestia to Verticalize?
Extremely low hardware can participate in consensus and most importantly bridges and rollups achieve...
2 Min
Layer 1 / L1
May 2025
The Public Crypto Accumulator Era - Part 1
Integration In each case, staking is central to each company’s objectives, using it to participate in network consensus...The XRP Ledger uses a consensus mechanism that does not pay validators, and there is no inflationary...
31 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
Bigger Than Binance: How Pump.fun's $1.3B Raise Sets Up Crypto's Most Hated Rally
The Contrarian Setup: Maximum Pessimism Meets Proven Profitability The consensus view is clear: everyone...For investors willing to bet against consensus, the combination of strong fundamentals, attractive valuation...
30 Min
DeFi
Jul 2025
EigenDA thoughts
EigenDA is just fake DA: It doesn’t have consensus, it doesn’t have slashing, and it relies entirely...
2 Min
DeFi
Apr 2025