#dusk $DUSK @Dusk I was comparing blockchain settlement models when I noticed something interesting about Dusk: the important word in its consensus design may not be ‘fast’ but ‘final
At first, it sounds like another speed claim. But the more I looked at SBA, the more I think the real point is not speed at all. It is what happens after a financial transaction is accepted.
Imagine moving a large tokenized asset between institutions. If the transaction is fast but there is still meaningful uncertainty about whether the block could be reorganized, the settlement process cannot fully relax. Someone still has to wait, hedge that risk, or build another layer around it.
Dusk approaches this differently with its Segregated Byzantine Agreement (SBA), a permissionless committee-based Proof-of-Stake mechanism designed to make the probability of a fork negligibly small. What caught my attention is that this is connected to Proof-of-Blind-Bid (PoBB), which handles leader extraction privately rather than simply assuming the fastest participant should produce the block.
That creates an interesting tradeoff. More deterministic settlement is useful, but the mechanism still has to remain permissionless and economically secure as participation changes.
So I’m less interested in whether @Dusk can claim fast blocks, and more interested in this question: as real financial activity moves on-chain, can SBA make “final” feel final enough that traditional settlement assumptions start looking unnecessarily cautious
#DUSKFoundation
At first, it sounds like another speed claim. But the more I looked at SBA, the more I think the real point is not speed at all. It is what happens after a financial transaction is accepted.
Imagine moving a large tokenized asset between institutions. If the transaction is fast but there is still meaningful uncertainty about whether the block could be reorganized, the settlement process cannot fully relax. Someone still has to wait, hedge that risk, or build another layer around it.
Dusk approaches this differently with its Segregated Byzantine Agreement (SBA), a permissionless committee-based Proof-of-Stake mechanism designed to make the probability of a fork negligibly small. What caught my attention is that this is connected to Proof-of-Blind-Bid (PoBB), which handles leader extraction privately rather than simply assuming the fastest participant should produce the block.
That creates an interesting tradeoff. More deterministic settlement is useful, but the mechanism still has to remain permissionless and economically secure as participation changes.
So I’m less interested in whether @Dusk can claim fast blocks, and more interested in this question: as real financial activity moves on-chain, can SBA make “final” feel final enough that traditional settlement assumptions start looking unnecessarily cautious
#DUSKFoundation