ESPRESSO

Espresso is able to provide a fast, secure pre-confirmation through the HotShot finality gadget. HotShot is an optimistically responsive consensus protocol, which means that it can product blocks as quickly as the network allows and reaches finality after two consecutive blocks. HotShot is a proof-of-stake protocol with economic security guarantees (slashing), similar to Ethereum. Moreover, Ethereum validators can contribute security to HotShot through restaking. HotShot can scale up to thousands of nodes, and is designed with the intention of reaching Ethereum-equivalent security... At Espresso Systems, we are building the infrastructure and tools needed for more safe, open, and performant on-chain experiences... We are building Espresso to create a platform for shared sequencing, pre-confirmations, and data availability, enabling L2s (rollups, based rollups, validiums, etc) to opt-in to the best sequencing and data-availability design for their use case. If you're building a..

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