InterLayer Consensus

HotStuff-style pipelined BFT with 100ms slots and sub-3s finality. Predictable latency, strong guarantees.

Engine

HotStuff BFT

Block Time

100ms

Finality

<3s

Validators (Testnet)

Why HotStuff BFT

3-phase commit with view pipelining for predictable 100ms slots.

Byzantine fault tolerant with instant finality per view.

View-change and timeout parameters tuned for fast recovery.

Fixed 100ms slots with testnet cap at 1s under stress. Production target maintained via QUIC transport and regional clusters.

Inclusion ≤200ms (p95), finality ≤3s. Comparable to centralized exchanges.

Initially 10 validators (testnet), expanding to 21–31 for mainnet. Governance-controlled rotation cadence.

QUIC transport, peer scoring, regional validator clusters to reduce RTT. Heartbeat mechanism maintains liveness when tx pool is empty.

Longest-chain rule with ≤1-block reorgs allowed before finality.

Zero reorgs. Emergency reorg policy requires governance action.

All consensus parameters are governance-controlled and updatable via on-chain proposals:

slot_duration: 100ms

view_change_timeout: 300ms

batch_size: 5000

pipeline_depth: 3

validator_rotation_cadence: 7_days

gossip_fanout: 8

Load Testing

Sustained 1k–10k TPS with latency verification under various network conditions.

Adversarial Simulations

Byzantine validator behavior, network partitions, and eclipse attacks.

Failover Drills

Validator rotation, crash recovery, view-change correctness.