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Snow White: Robustly Reconfigurable Consensus

A proof-of-stake design in the sleepy model: honest nodes may be offline, and the set of stakeholders can change. It is an academic predecessor, not Cardano and not Ethereum.

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Authors: Phil Daian, Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi
Date: 2017
Publisher: Phil Daian, Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0069
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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A proof-of-stake design in the sleepy model: honest nodes may be offline, and the set of stakeholders can change. It is an academic predecessor, not Cardano and not Ethereum.

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Canonical readingSnow White study
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Daian, P., Pass, R., & Shi, E. (2017). Snow White: Robustly Reconfigurable Consensus. Phil Daian, Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919

BibTeX

@techreport{snowwhite2017,
  title = {Snow White: Robustly Reconfigurable Consensus},
  author = {Phil Daian, Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Phil Daian, Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/snow-white}
}

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