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\title{The latest gossip on BFT consensus\vspace{-0.7\baselineskip}}



\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{\large Ethan Buchman, Jae Kwon and Zarko Milosevic\\}
	\IEEEauthorblockN{\large Tendermint}\\
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	\IEEEauthorblockN{September 24, 2018}
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\begin{abstract}
This paper presents Tendermint, a new protocol for ordering events in a distributed network under adversarial conditions. More commonly known as Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus or atomic broadcast, the problem has attracted significant attention in recent years due to the widespread success of blockchain-based digital currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, which successfully solved the problem in a public setting without a central authority. Tendermint modernizes classic academic work on the subject and simplifies the design of the BFT algorithm by relying on a peer-to-peer gossip protocol among nodes. 
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%\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Blockchain, Byzantine Fault Tolerance, State Machine %Replication

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