Frosty for partial synchrony

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Main Authors: Buttolph, Stephen, Lewis-Pye, Andrew, Sekniqi, Kevin
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Published: 2025
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author Buttolph, Stephen
Lewis-Pye, Andrew
Sekniqi, Kevin
author_facet Buttolph, Stephen
Lewis-Pye, Andrew
Sekniqi, Kevin
contents Snowman is the consensus protocol used by blockchains on Avalanche. Recent work has shown both how to augment Snowman with a `liveness' module called `Frosty' that protects against liveness attacks, and also how to modify Snowman so as to be consistent in partial synchrony. Since Frosty assumes (a strong form of) synchrony, the aim of this note is to show how to modify Frosty to deal with the partially synchronous version of Snowman.
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spellingShingle Frosty for partial synchrony
Buttolph, Stephen
Lewis-Pye, Andrew
Sekniqi, Kevin
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Snowman is the consensus protocol used by blockchains on Avalanche. Recent work has shown both how to augment Snowman with a `liveness' module called `Frosty' that protects against liveness attacks, and also how to modify Snowman so as to be consistent in partial synchrony. Since Frosty assumes (a strong form of) synchrony, the aim of this note is to show how to modify Frosty to deal with the partially synchronous version of Snowman.
title Frosty for partial synchrony
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09823