Research corpus ConsensusBLC-PDF-0003

The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus

Mazières's paper gives a federated way to reach agreement: each node picks quorum slices, and safety depends on how those slices intersect.

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Authors: David Mazières
Date: 2015, as commonly cited. The library index truncates the title; the full title is used here. Bytes were not re-opened.
Publisher: Stellar Development Foundation
Version: Historic library file. Not byte-compared with the publisher PDF.
Document ID: BLC-PDF-0003
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Direct answer

Mazières's paper gives a federated way to reach agreement: each node picks quorum slices, and safety depends on how those slices intersect.

It is not the Ripple consensus white paper, and it is not a status report on the Stellar network.

Why it is in the corpus

The quorum-slice idea is the piece later systems either adopt carefully or blur.

Where to read

Official source — stellar.org paper
Legacy library pathThe old URL stays. It is served from the Internet Archive copy of the previous site.

Legacy path remains. Full text is not republished.

Full text

Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.

Claims and assumptions

Blockchain Lab's reading of what the document is doing. Not a quotation and not the source text.

Agreement without a single global membership list, if the quorum intersection property holds.

Assumptions

The slices people actually configure still intersect. Configuration is part of the security argument.

What changed

Network configuration after 2015 is not the paper.

Relationships

ConceptConsensus
Different designRipple consensus

Cite this record

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Author–date

Mazières, D. (2015). The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus. Stellar Development Foundation. https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{stellarconsensus2015,
  title = {The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus},
  author = {David Mazières},
  year = {2015},
  institution = {Stellar Development Foundation},
  url = {https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Rights uncertain. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/stellar-consensus}
}

RIS

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TI  - The Stellar Consensus Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-level Consensus
AU  - David Mazières
PY  - 2015
PB  - Stellar Development Foundation
UR  - https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Rights uncertain
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Rights record

Source status: Historic library path, plus the publisher's paper page
Use status: Legacy path remains. Full text is not republished.
Rights: Rights uncertain
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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