Patent ID: 11914616
Assignee: ALCHEMY INSIGHTS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A method, comprising:
randomly selecting block proposers;
receiving a proposed canonical head from each of the block proposers;
receiving an indication from attestors as to validity of each of the proposed canonical heads, the attestors being a subset of a plurality of blockchain nodes;
receiving a vote from each of the attestors as to whether to add valid ones of the proposed canonical heads to a consistent view of a blockchain;
determining a commitment level for each block added to the consistent view of the blockchain, each block being tagged with the commitment level as metadata, the commitment level being selected from at least one of: safe state; finalized state; latest state; earliest state; and pending state, the safe state indicating that at least one block has received votes from a threshold number of validators; and
providing the consistent view of the blockchain with the commitment level tagging to a requester.