Azurion Labs is a small research group studying consensus protocols, applied cryptography and peer-to-peer networks. We publish papers, open-source tooling and educational notes — we do not sell products or financial services.
Our work is academic and engineering-oriented. Everything we publish is free to read, use and cite.
Fault tolerance, finality guarantees and validator dynamics in BFT and Nakamoto-style protocols, with an emphasis on failure analysis.
Zero-knowledge proof systems, hash-based constructions and secure implementations, including side-channel and misuse analysis.
Gossip protocols, topology measurement and eclipse-attack resistance, studied through reproducible network simulations.
Model checking and theorem-proving applied to protocol specifications, with a public repository of machine-checked proofs.
Independent, published reviews of open protocols, written for the public record. We accept no payment from reviewed projects.
Lecture notes, annotated code walkthroughs and problem sets for students and engineers learning distributed systems.
Peer-reviewed papers
Open-source repositories
Public talks & workshops
Open-access publications
A gentle, math-light explanation of quorum intersection and why two conflicting finalized blocks can never both exist.
Read note →What happens when an adversary surrounds a node with dishonest peers, and the surprisingly simple countermeasures that work.
Read note →The intuition behind ZK proofs, where the assumptions hide, and what "soundness" and "zero-knowledge" really guarantee.
Read note →We read every message. Academic collaboration, review requests and corrections are all welcome.
research@azurion-labs.org