The End of Consensus Research?
Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-10-24 CS paper digest. Area: Distributed Computing. Authors: Clément Burgelin, Rachid Guerraoui, Zicong Hong, Yinan Hu, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pires, Rasmus Moorits Veski, Martijn de Vos (EPFL; alphabetical order) arXiv: 2610.30114 · PDF TL;DR The title asks a question and the last section answers it: “Our answer is no; this is just a new beginning.” The EPFL distributed computing group asks whether a coding agent can produce a practical new consensus protocol: designed, implemented, benchmarked under geo-replication, crash-tested and proved safe....