A Fast Confirmation Rule for Ethereum

Name: A Fast Confirmation Rule for Ethereum
Duration: 24 min 18 s
Description: Luca Zanolini and Roberto Saltini present a fast confirmation rule for Ethereum at Devcon 7, covering a proposed mechanism for giving users higher confidence that a block is finalized well before the protocol's standard finality time. The talk addresses the safety assumptions the faster rule relies on, and the tradeoffs between confirmation speed and the strength of the guarantee it provides.

Devcon 7 · 15 Nov 2024 · 24:18

Luca Zanolini and Roberto Saltini present a fast confirmation rule for Ethereum at Devcon 7, covering a proposed mechanism for giving users higher confidence that a block is finalized well before the protocol's standard finality time. The talk addresses the safety assumptions the faster rule relies on, and the tradeoffs between confirmation speed and the strength of the guarantee it provides.

Speakers

Roberto Saltini
Luca Zanolini

Topics

Protocol

From Devcon 7, hosted by Ethereum Foundation.