Vantage: Availability-Graded Broadcast for Signature-Free BFT

arXiv:2608.16504 · cs.DC, cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.DC, cs.CR

Submitted: 2026-08-17

Updated: 2026-08-30

Terminology

• Core — 173× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 17× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Grounding — 16× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Arbiter — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Availability-Graded Broadcast — 8× in this paper
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alternation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security — 3× in this paper
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Global Stabilization Time — 2× in this paper
• ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing — 1× in this paper
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Amazon Web Services — 1× in this paper
• In IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems — 1× in this paper
• In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transmission Control Protocol — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• DAGs for the Masses
• Shoal++: High Throughput DAG BFT Can Be Fast!
• Cadence: Extreme Pipelining with Multiple Concurrent Proposers
• FinWhale: An Optimally Resilient Two-Round Terminating DAG Protocol
• Multimmit: Extending Blocks for Faster Finality
• BBCA-CHAIN: Low Latency, High Throughput BFT Consensus on a DAG
• Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications
• Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency And Robustness
• Raptr: Prefix Consensus for Robust High-Performance BFT
• Clownfish: Scaling DAG-based BFT Consensus via Sparse Edges
• Angelfish: Leader, DAG, or Anywhere in Between
• TetraBFT: Reducing Latency of Unauthenticated, Responsive BFT Consensus
• Simple-IT: Practical Low-Latency Signature-Free BFT Consensus

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