6 code implementations • 6 Mar 2020 • Vitalik Buterin, Diego Hernandez, Thor Kamphefner, Khiem Pham, Zhi Qiao, Danny Ryan, Juhyeok Sin, Ying Wang, Yan X Zhang
We present "Gasper," a proof-of-stake-based consensus protocol, which is an idealized version of the proposed Ethereum 2. 0 beacon chain.
Cryptography and Security 68W15
1 code implementation • 24 Sep 2018 • Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Vitalik Buterin
Light clients, also known as Simple Payment Verification (SPV) clients, are nodes which only download a small portion of the data in a blockchain, and use indirect means to verify that a given chain is valid.
Cryptography and Security
1 code implementation • 25 Oct 2017 • Vitalik Buterin, Virgil Griffith
We introduce Casper, a proof of stake-based finality system which overlays an existing proof of work blockchain.
Cryptography and Security
