Current research
From Fault Tolerance to Modular Authority
Beyond algorithm names, this survey traces who can produce, finalize, and change a ledger—joining technical genealogy with institutional authority for ACM Computing Surveys.
role
period
status
record type
- Evidence
- Current manuscript corpus verified 2026-08-19: 86 sources, 36 genealogy nodes, 58 typed edges, 20 configurations, and 140 authority-right records.
CONS.TAX
Genealogy × authority
Technical ancestry and institutional authority share one map.
- lineage
- blocks
- interval opt
- gas fee
- scoring
From Fault Tolerance to Modular Authority: A Genealogy–Morphology Taxonomy of Blockchain Consensus is a current ACM Computing Surveys manuscript.
It asks a sharper question than which algorithm a protocol uses: who is authorized to propose, attest, finalize, govern, and change the ledger? Technical ancestry and institutional authority are mapped together so shifts in control remain visible across consensus families.
The central finding is bounded but consequential: technical genealogy and institutional morphology overlap, yet do not coincide. Reading both at a dated, maturity-qualified configuration reveals authority shifts that mechanism-only taxonomies miss.