Boson Consensus: Scaling EVM via Sharding

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QuarkChain’s Boson design shards execution into N+1 homogeneous chains where each shard runs its own consensus and a root chain anchors shard headers by recording header hashes so a single canonical history is chosen. A first-apply-root-then-local rule forces reorgs to respect root-chain ordering, blocking simple shard-only double-spend attacks. Current implementation uses proof-of-work, is EVM-compatible and integrates Chainlink oracles, and the open-source cluster reports measured up to 55,000 tx/s in benchmarks.

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1. 0:00Boson Consensus intro
2. 1:11Block size limits
3. 2:56Sharding problems
4. 4:08Boson design
5. 5:32Security with fork choice
6. 8:54Comparison with GHOST
7. 10:21Token economics
8. 11:25Cross-shard transactions
9. 12:47Flexible consensus
10. 13:33Security proofs
11. 14:56Performance metrics
12. 15:39EVM compatibility
13. 16:23Q&A

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