Casper & Smart Contract Consensus

A video overview of the Ethereum’s Proof of Stake protocol Casper

I began contributing to Ethereum’s proof of stake protocol Casper last March, while continuing my work at ConsenSys. I have been working directly with Ethereum Foundation researchers, such as Vitalik and Vlad, on Casper’s implementation. This has enabled me to dive deeply into Ethereum, consensus protocols, and cryptoeconomics.

Every few weeks ConsenSys holds a company-wide Developer Roundtable. During these roundtables, developers present recent works, useful techniques, and informative topics. Two weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Casper and related concepts based on three years of research done by the Casper research team. The topics included were: An overview of Casper, economic finality, miner censorship, fork choice, usage of smart contracts for consensus, and more.

Access a recording of the developer roundtable session, and the supporting slides on ConsenSys.net

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Originally published at https://consensys.net.