Product Driven R&D Strategy and Report
summary
Claims an always-on random beacon where a committee runs DKG and uses threshold cryptography to produce unpredictable randomness that signs the value that selected it, then that signature deterministically selects the next committee so blocks are produced in a leaderless, committee-signed flow. Implementation uses proof-of-stake for node registry, blinded network identities, a custom networking stack (not libp2p), and a WebAssembly VM runtime with an actor model and a new language ActorScript; prototypes exist and consensus runs rapidly but mainnet roadmap and launch timing remain undecided.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Random Beacon Based Consensus
- 4:22Leaderless Consensus
- 5:27Platform Risk
- 7:21Internet Computer
- 11:11Platform Requirements
- 16:31Interview
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