DEEP DIVE: ALPENGLOW CONSENSUS PROTOCOL

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

Consensus protocols form the basis of state machine replication (SMR), defining how distributed sets of parties reach agreement on transaction ordering and state updates. Alpenglow represents a new approach to blockchain consensus that aims to improve on existing mechanisms in terms of throughput, latency, and finality guarantees. The protocol's design choices and trade-offs compared to established consensus mechanisms are state-of-the-art and designed to remedy common tradeoffs and problems within the consensus mechanism space.