Global state finality means all parts of a blockchain network agree on the complete and irreversible transaction history. This term refers to the point at which the entire distributed ledger, across all its partitions or shards, reaches an absolute and irreversible consensus on the complete sequence of transactions and the resulting network state. It ensures that no transaction can be reversed or altered anywhere within the system, providing ultimate data integrity. Achieving this is paramount for trust in decentralized applications.
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Attaining true global state finality efficiently remains a complex challenge for highly scalable blockchain architectures, particularly those employing sharding. Discussions center on the trade-offs between immediate local finality on individual shards and the time required for the entire network to synchronize and confirm a global state. Future protocol designs aim to optimize cross-shard communication and consensus mechanisms to accelerate the achievement of comprehensive network finality.
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