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+## byzantine fault tolerant ramblings
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+* [minimmit: fast finality with even faster blocks, by kobayashi chou et al (2025)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10862)
+  - bft state machine with significantly lower latency through an innovative view-change mechanism.
+  - on a total of `n` processors or replicas, at most `f` of them may be bizantine, where `n >= 5f + 1`.
+  - key insight: `n` decoupling view progression from tx finalizatin (l-notarizations). protocol allows view progression with only `2f + 1` votes (m-notarizations).
+  - design leads to ~17% redux in tx latency.