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Frosty for partial synchrony

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2025-06-12 v1

Abstract

Snowman is the consensus protocol used by blockchains on Avalanche. Recent work has shown both how to augment Snowman with a `liveness' module called `Frosty' that protects against liveness attacks, and also how to modify Snowman so as to be consistent in partial synchrony. Since Frosty assumes (a strong form of) synchrony, the aim of this note is to show how to modify Frosty to deal with the partially synchronous version of Snowman.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2506.09823,
  title  = {Frosty for partial synchrony},
  author = {Stephen Buttolph and Andrew Lewis-Pye and Kevin Sekniqi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09823},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2404.14250, arXiv:2501.15904

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