I will bite the bullet, Thomas was vague and uninspiring at the opening panel at Frontiers.

looking for a technical writer with an itch to: - simplify complex technical concepts - write content that makes you think - learn fast and adapt

Shresth is right here. "Blocks" are a construction-specific notion – in blockchains etc. They're not part of the *problem statement* or the *model*. I can make a system with very fast blocks; e.g., by producing empty blocks – useless. The metric is not construction-independent.

someone: imagine having $10m and an unlimited pool of extraordinary talent for the next 2 years. what would you build? me: pod, wouldn’t change a bit! *realising the opportunity is surreal at times*

vividly remember having a call with @zarinjo 6 months ago about malachite and potential business models for open-source stacks. great to hear the acquisition by circle!

Yes! People confuse block times and finality, block times = finality only if there is SSF. Otherwise, finality is when consensus has been achieved. Also, a L2 with 10ms block time doesn't mean tx finalized with eth security in 10ms! These are L2s soft confs :)

block time is a useless and confusing metric. it doesn't talk about the confirmation time of a pos system.

Big milestone for Informal! Malachite is joining Circle to build Arc, a new Layer-1 for stablecoin finance. Proud to see our high-performance BFT consensus engine moving from incubation to real-world impact.

i will be hanging out at frontiers in the next days. dm if you wanna chat!

Decentralized thoughts on Concurrent 2-round and 3-round Simplex-style BFT with @ElodinStorm , @kartik1507 , and Ling Ren