Research Notes

Open-access notes on decentralized systems

Technical, educational and independent. These notes explain how things work — they do not discuss investments, markets or financial products.

Verification

Model Checking a Gossip Protocol: A Walkthrough

We reproduce our recent formal-verification preprint step by step, with the full model available in our public repository.

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Engineering

Building a Deterministic Network Simulator for Protocol Testing

Design lessons from the tool we use to break our own protocol assumptions before anyone else can.

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Courseware

Distributed Systems Reading List for Protocol Engineers

The papers we hand every new collaborator, annotated with what to skim, what to study, and what to skip on first reading.

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