Category: Theory

In the Keynesian Beauty Contest, a newspaper asks its readers to select the best six images from a curated shortlist. After...

For the last four decades, computer scientists have believed that consensus mechanisms can tolerate a theoretical maximum of (n-1)/2 dishonest participants....

Saito Consensus is a sybil-proof layer-one blockchain. The technical proof is contained in our paper on cost of attack, but as...

This blog post is a open comment written in response to Tim Roughgarden’s public lecture on permissionless blockchains. It is intended...

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que le White Paper de $SAITO est maintenant disponible en Français. French Whitepaper –...

While we talk a lot about collective action problems and market failures at Saito, it isn’t necessary to understand public choice...

Saito co-founder David Lancashire was invited to speak at Blockchain Research Roundtable on September 16th, 2021. The event gathered leading thinkers...

It has become conventional wisdom that there’s no way to tell attackers (wolves) from honest nodes (sheep) in an open network....

Dear Paul, I don’t envy your position as public enemy #1 for the cryptocurrency goldbug set, but it’s clear from your...

As proposed by Vitalik Buterin, the scalability trilemma asserts that it is impossible to increase decentralization, scale or security in a...

In this video we offer a short introduction (six-minutes) to the problems that Saito solves and provide a high-level overview of...

Talking to people about Saito, particularly people with good understandings of Proof of Work and Proof of Stake, we sometimes hear...