Cadence: Extreme Pipelining with Multiple Concurrent Proposers
arXiv: 2607.02275 · PDF: pdf · Published: 2026-07-02 TL;DR Cadence is a Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocol that finalizes blocks at arbitrarily low block intervals by running each slot as an independent consensus instance — no slot waits for its predecessor to finish or propagate. It also drops the single-leader model in favor of multiple concurrent proposers (MCP) per slot, giving short-term censorship resistance and “hiding” (a proposer can’t craft its proposal in reaction to others’)....