Research Summary: Dissimilar Redundancy in DeFi

Hey @rlombreglia, thanks for this reply!

I think this is more than just an analogy. While it is true that smart contracts live in a complex decentralized world, the EVM itself does exist as a single entity comprised of every node in the network. (I’m limiting things to the Ethereum world here). Since transactions are atomic, it is possible to enforce that multiple implementations have to agree in order for the transaction to be fully executed. This is what we do in the paper, essentially. While of course the networking does add complexity, I think of this as complexity at the network layer/layer zero rather than the blockchain layer / layer one!

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