Whitepaper Reading Club: Gatling: Rapid-Fire Consensus from Parallel Composition - WPRC NYC
Gatling: Rapid-Fire Consensus from Parallel Composition
The paper addresses a structural bottleneck in modern blockchain networks: the inter-proposal time (the time between block proposals). Existing single-chain pipelined protocols have hit a performance floor equal to one network delay (Δ), because a leader traditionally needs to see the previous block before proposing a new one.
The authors present Gatling, an atomic broadcast protocol that breaks this floor. By running multiple parallel instances of a standard consensus protocol and staggering their schedules, Gatling achieves arbitrarily small inter-proposal times (ε < Δ) without requiring complex protocol-level optimization or sacrificing fault tolerance
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Gatling: Rapid-Fire Consensus from Parallel Composition
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Format
Short introduction and context setting to start.
Silent reading of the summary before discussion begins.
5-10 minute presentation to frame the key ideas.
Moderator-led discussion with no promotions.
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