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Responsive BFT

Definition

Responsive BFT, or Responsive Byzantine Fault Tolerance, refers to a class of consensus algorithms that maintain high performance even when a significant portion of network participants behave maliciously. These protocols dynamically adjust to network conditions, ensuring liveness and safety with fewer communication rounds in honest network states. The responsiveness characteristic allows for faster transaction finality under typical operating conditions. It represents an advancement in distributed system resilience.