Scaling Throughput with Linked Broadcast

[patrick-ogrady]

Blockchains require replicating data, like transactions, across nodes in the network—but doing it efficiently and reliably is a challenge. For the last decade, best-effort broadcast has been the norm, relying on consensus to guarantee delivery. The result? Wasted bandwidth by sending the same data multiple times, bottlenecked throughput by routing messages through a single node (the leader in consensus), and degraded performance whenever that node is unresponsive.

Read more at:

• https://x.com/B_Chou/status/1892604352851775624
• https://commonware.xyz/blogs/commonware-broadcast.html