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Hotstuff is a DeFi Layer 1 and unified financial account platform for non-US retail users. It supports perpetual trading, tokenized equities and ETFs, crypto assets, and fiat payment rails through one margin account.
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DracoBFT


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DracoBFT is Hotstuff L1’s consensus layer. It uses stake-weighted leader selection, pipelined block production, two-round deterministic finality, and partial synchrony with n = 3f + 1 Byzantine tolerance. Its documented innovations include Chained Change-Log Commitments, which hash only keys changed per block, and side-loops: auxiliary validator execution domains for services such as zkTLS verification, cross-chain state verification, private computation, compliance or identity checks, and payment routing without blocking core consensus.

Category: L1