Optimistic One-Vote-Round Finality in BFT Consensus

This blog post explores the intuition and tradeoff between two-vote-round and one-vote-round BFT consensus.

Consensus is easier to understand once you build the right intuition.

I wrote this post to explain why BFT needs two voting rounds at 33%, how 20% enables true one-round finality, and how an optimistic fast path can bridge the gap.

With today’s high participation, one-epoch finality on Ethereum may be technically feasible.

Read the blogpost here: https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/one-voting-round-bft/