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Consensus Team Update

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Damian Nadales
Damian Nadales
Consensus Team Lead

High level summary​

  • Released Consensus for Node 8.11 (#1101)
  • Improved the Praos chain order:
    • Restricted VRF tiebreaker based on slot distance (#1047)
    • Small tweak to the issue number tiebreaker (#1086)
  • Wrote overview on the statistics on the leader schedule (#1096)
  • Integrated robustness refinement for concluding that a node is caught up in the context of bootstrap peers (#1031)
  • The P&T team managed to complete the UTXO-HD benchmarks using the LMDB backend and the results are promising.
  • We're working on setting up the Consensus Technical Working Group within Intersect, so if you'd like to participate please reach out to Damian Nadales.