Mysticeti: Revolutionizing Consensus on Sui

TL;DR Mysticeti is a novel Byzantine consensus protocol deployed on the Sui blockchain that revolutionizes transaction processing. Eliminates explicit certification, reducing good-case latency to the theoretical minimum. Crash-fault masking, avoiding head-of-line blocking for pipelined rounds. 40% CPU usage reduction for consensus in production. 80% latency reduction compared to Bullshark on Sui Mainnet (from ~1.9s to ~400ms). Mysticeti is a novel Byzantine consensus protocol recently deployed on the Sui blockchain. It... By Lefteris Kokoris Kogias, Alberto Sonnino, George Danezis