Kudzu primary sources
Reviewed: 2026-05-14 UTC
Canonical paper
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08771
- Best primary source in this pass.
- Used to confirm the core design bundle: optimistic 2δ finality when enough replicas cooperate, integrated 3δ fallback,
n = 3f + 2p + 1quorum framing, erasure-coded block dispersal, and the paper’s explicit simplicity claims. - Also the cleanest source for the authors’ own framing that Kudzu combines fast-path and high-throughput lines of work rather than representing only one of them.
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.08771
- Useful canonical PDF form of the same paper.
- Kept here because some details are easier to inspect in the typeset version than in scraped HTML.
Accepted proceedings version
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https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2025.42
- Best independent publication record in this pass.
- Used to confirm acceptance at DISC 2025 and to cross-check the abstract-level claims around two-round fast finality, integrated fallback, erasure-coded dissemination, and avoidance of progress certificates / speculative execution.
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- Proceedings PDF for the accepted version.
- Useful as a stable archival copy of the final conference paper.
Main takeaways from this pass
- Kudzu is best treated as a reusable fast-BFT comparison point, not just another consensus-paper citation.
- The key reusable split is the deliberate combination of four layers that are often analyzed separately: optimistic fast-path quorum logic, slower-path fallback, erasure-coded dissemination, and lightweight leader rotation.
- The most important comparison surfaces for later passes are quorum thresholds, fast-versus-slow integration, data-dispersal topology, timeout/extra-vote policy, and whether simplicity survives once all of those are combined in one protocol.
- Public materials in this pass are paper-centric; the entry should therefore be read as a mechanism page first rather than as a production-network profile.