Countdown to Casper

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Casper describes a CBC‑Casper-derived protocol called Highway with a formal math paper, Trail of Bits audit, and a production implementation that finalizes blocks only after two‑thirds quorum finality and rotates validators on‑chain every 30 minute validator rotation via an auction that picks top stake bids for three future eras. Execution happens after consensus to avoid orphans, slashing is 100% slash including delegators for equivocation, account features accept Ethereum keys and enable on‑chain key recovery, plus a Rust/WebAssembly dev flow with cargo‑casper and a lightweight VM for CI.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:48Casper Overview
3. 3:12Permissionless
4. 4:46Security
5. 7:20Contracts
6. 9:14Core capabilities
7. 12:01Developer experience
8. 13:53Outro

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