Research corpus ConsensusBLC-STUDY-0010

Tendermint: Consensus without Mining

A practical Byzantine-fault-tolerant state machine for a known validator set, with instant finality on commit. It became the consensus engine under Cosmos SDK chains. The 2014 note is the origin, not the current CometBFT specification.

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Authors: Jae Kwon
Date: 2014
Publisher: Jae Kwon
Version: Source cited by the 2014 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0010
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — Tendermint repository
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The study separates the text from later network behaviour. This bibliographic page does not repeat that essay.

Relationships

Canonical readingTendermint study
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Author–date

Kwon, J. (2014). Tendermint: Consensus without Mining. Jae Kwon. https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint

BibTeX

@techreport{tendermint2014,
  title = {Tendermint: Consensus without Mining},
  author = {Jae Kwon},
  year = {2014},
  institution = {Jae Kwon},
  url = {https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/tendermint}
}

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TY  - RPRT
TI  - Tendermint: Consensus without Mining
AU  - Jae Kwon
PY  - 2014
PB  - Jae Kwon
UR  - https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
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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