Liberation Through Radical Decentralization

By Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl

Wealthy societies around the world are facing a growing crisis of confidence in established authorities. Stagnating economies, mounting inequality, political corruption and the increasing…

Safety Under Dynamic Validator Sets

Traditional consensus algorithms, whether they operate in a synchronous, partially asynchronous…

Minimal Slashing Conditions

Last week Yoichi released a blog post detailing the process of formally proving safety and liveness properties of my “minimal slashing conditions”. This is a key component of a Byzantine-fault-tolerant, safe-under-asynchrony and cryptoeconomically safe consensus algorithm that is…