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Network Design

...n is globally consistent without requiring any coordination messages. A leader slot lasts for a fixed number of PoH ticks (currently configured at 800ms worth of h...

Proof of History Sequence

...ction expiration and for distinguishing between a leader that produced an empty slot (because no transactions arrived) and a leader that failed to produce any outpu...

Proof of Stake Consensus

...increasing lockout periods. When a validator votes on a block at a specific PoH slot, it commits to that fork of the ledger. Each consecutive vote on the same fork ...

Performance

...epends on several factors: network propagation time to the leader, the leader's slot length (currently approximately 400ms), the time for the block to propagate to ...