Enhance Vote Finality through Temporal Stability Analysis

[rotilho]

The goal of this issue is to refine consensus mechanism by introducing a temporal stability analysis of votes. This analysis will dynamically adjust the criteria for emitting final votes based on the observed agreement level among nodes over time. The intention is to expedite final vote emission when there's a high level of continuous agreement (e.g., at a 50% threshold) and delay it in scenarios of fluctuating consensus (e.g. requiring up to an 80% agreement threshold). Additionally, the mechanism will exclude votes below a certain threshold to mitigate the impact of potential malicious voting behavior on temporal stability.

Objective:

1. Dynamic Final Vote Emission: Implement a flexible system for determining when final votes are emitted based on the stability and continuity of agreement among nodes.
2. Security Enhancement: Improve the network's resilience against attacks by excluding potentially malicious votes from affecting the temporal stability.
3. Optimized Consensus Time: Reduce the time to reach a final consensus when nodes show high temporal agreement levels.

[rotilho]

I initially proposed refining our consensus mechanism by introducing a temporal stability analysis to dynamically adjust final vote emission criteria based on nodes' agreement levels over time. This aims to improve consensus speed during high agreement and enhance security by delaying consensus or increasing agreement thresholds in fluctuating scenarios.

As a second idea, I'm considering a more deterministic approach. Instead of adjusting criteria based on temporal agreement, we could raise the quorum threshold during competing elections. This change aims to maintain a consistent confidence level across scenarios in a deterministic manner, which could simplify implementation and increase network predictability.

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity.