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Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency and Robustness

Shoal pipelines the DAG so a block can commit faster in the good case, and it uses a reputation idea so slow leaders stop dominating the schedule.

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Authors: Alexander Spiegelman, Balaji Arun, Rati Gelashvili and Zekun Li
Date: 2024
Publisher: Alexander Spiegelman, Balaji Arun, Rati Gelashvili and Zekun Li
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Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0136
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Shoal pipelines the DAG so a block can commit faster in the good case, and it uses a reputation idea so slow leaders stop dominating the schedule.

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Spiegelman, A., Arun, B., Gelashvili, R., & Li, Z. (2024). Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency and Robustness. Alexander Spiegelman, Balaji Arun, Rati Gelashvili and Zekun Li. https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03058

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@techreport{shoal2024,
  title = {Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency and Robustness},
  author = {Alexander Spiegelman, Balaji Arun, Rati Gelashvili and Zekun Li},
  year = {2024},
  institution = {Alexander Spiegelman, Balaji Arun, Rati Gelashvili and Zekun Li},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03058},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/shoal}
}

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