Whitepaper · Aggelos Kiayias et al., 2017
Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol
The Ouroboros paper that defines Cardano’s consensus — the first blockchain protocol with a formal, peer-reviewed proof of stake security against adaptive adversaries.
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