Steelhead: Interleaving Partially Synchronous and Asynchronous Commit Rules on a Shared DAG
The episode discusses 'Steelhead,' a dual-mode consensus protocol that interleaves partially synchronous and asynchronous commit rules over a shared Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Hosts explore how round-number dependent logic allows the protocol to adapt dynamically to network conditions, maintaining performance parity across various delay scenarios. The discussion concludes that while the structure is robust, security relies on verifying unproven hypotheses about coin unpredictability.