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Expand Up @@ -5,3 +5,8 @@ The goal of this work is to agree on an interoperable consensus protocol that me
* MUST guarantee timely finality;
* MUST guarantee all of the requirements listed here when operating in eventually synchronous network
* SHOULD have a specification sufficient to enable implemetation without having to refer to someone else's code;
* The consensus algorithm MUST support the following safety and liveness properties
- Agreement — Any two honest processes MUST decide the same block (no two honest processes decide different blocks).
- Validity — If an honest process decides on a block, then that block must have been proposed by some process. Secondly the proposal itself must be a valid block.
- Integrity — An honest process MUST only decide for a block at most once (in a round)
- Termination — Any honest process MUST eventualy decide (ensuring progress)