Shoal: How We Reduce Bullshark Latency on The Aptos Blockchain | by Aptos Labs | Aptos Labs | Medium

By Balaji Arun and Alexander Spiegelman

Shoal: How We Reduce Bullshark Latency on The Aptos Blockchain Aptos Labs 12 min read · Jun 13, 2023 -- Listen Share By Balaji Arun and Alexander Spiegelman Press enter or click to view image in full size World-class engineering meets cutting-edge research at Aptos. For more details, please refer to the Shoal paper . TL;DR: We have solved two important open problems in DAG BFT that significantly reduce latency and, for the first time, have eliminated the need for timeouts in deterministic practical protocols. Overall, we have improved Bullshark’s latency by 40% in the failure-free case and by

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