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Cardano: paper, then practice.

Ouroboros is a proof-of-stake design that elects slot leaders from a snapshot of stake. Cardano is a later network. A published staking rate is not part of the paper.

Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell, Bernardo David, Roman Oliynykov. 2017. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.

  1. The paper. The academic protocol Cardano's settlement layer is built around. It gives a proof-of-stake chain a stated security argument in a synchronous model, with stake electing slot leaders.
  2. Proof of stake.
  3. Ouroboros profile.
  4. What changed.
  5. Stake and work.
  6. Staking checklist.

What this chain does not claim

It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: IACR ePrint 2016/889.

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