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

Claim 29:
30. A method, comprising:
randomly selecting block proposers;
receiving a proposed canonical head from each of the block proposers;
creating an empty slot in a consistent view of a blockchain when a block proposer fails to provide a proposed canonical head;
receiving an indication from attestors as to validity of each of 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 the consistent view of the 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; and
providing the consistent view of the blockchain with the commitment level tagging to a requester.