$$ \newcommand \Soft {\mathit{soft}} \newcommand \Cert {\mathit{cert}} \newcommand \Bundle {\mathrm{Bundle}} \newcommand \Vote {\mathrm{Vote}} \newcommand \FilterTimeout {\mathrm{FilterTimeout}} \newcommand \DeadlineTimeout {\mathrm{DeadlineTimeout}} \newcommand \Next {\mathit{next}} $$

State Transitions

After receiving message events or timeout events, the player may update some components of its state.

New Round

When a player observes that a new round \( (r, 0) \) has begun, the player sets

• \( \bar{s} := s \),

• \( \bar{v} := \bot \),

• \( p := 0 \),

• \( s := \Soft \).

Specifically, if a new round has begun, then

$$ N((r-i, p, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, \ldots) = ((r, 0, \Soft, s, V’, P’, \bot, H’), L’, \ldots) $$

for some \( i > 0 \).

Initially, the player starts round \( |L|+1 \) in \( p = 0 \) and \( s = \Soft \).

Important

IMPLEMENTATION:

New round reference implementation.

New Period

When a player observes that a new period \( (r, p) \) has begun due to a threshold \( \Bundle(r, q, s_q, v) \), the player sets

• \( \bar{s} := s \),

• \( s := \Soft \).

Also, the player sets \( \bar{v} := v \) if \( v \neq \bot \); otherwise, the player sets \( \bar{v} := \sigma(S, r, p-i) \) if \( \sigma(S, r, p-i) \neq \bot \), where \( p-i \) was the player’s period immediately before observing the new period and otherwise, the player does not update \( \bar{v} \).

In other words, if \( v \neq \bot \), then

$$ N((r, p-i, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, \ldots) = ((r, p, \Soft, s, V’, P, v, H’), L, \ldots); $$

and otherwise, if \( \sigma(S, r, p-i) \neq \bot \), then

$$ N((r, p-i, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, \ldots) = ((r, p, \Soft, s, V’, P, \sigma(S, r, p-i), H’), L, \ldots); $$

and otherwise

$$ N((r, p-i, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, \ldots) = ((r, p, \Soft, s, V’, P, \bar{v}, H’), L, \ldots); $$

for some \( i > 0 \) (where \( S = (r, p-i, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H) \)).

Important

IMPLEMENTATION:

New period reference implementation.

Garbage Collection

When a player observes that either a new round or a new period \( (r, p) \) has begun, then the player garbage-collects old votes and proposal payloads.

In other words,

$$ N((r_0, p_0, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, \ldots) = ((r, p, \Soft, s, V’ \setminus V^\ast_{r, p}, P’ \setminus P^\ast_{r, p}, \bar{v}‘, H’), L’, \ldots) $$

where

$$ \begin{aligned} V^\ast_{r, p} &= \{\Vote(I_i, r_i, p_i, s_i, v_i) \in V’ \mid r_i < r\} \\\ &\cup \{\Vote(I_i, r_i, p_i, s_i, v_i) \in V’ \mid r_i = r, p_i + 1 < p\} \end{aligned} $$

and

$$ P^\ast_{r, p} = \{\mathrm{Proposal}(v) \in P’ \mid v \neq \bar{v}’ \land \nexists I_i, r_i, p_i, s_i : \Vote(I_i, r_i, p_i, s_i, v) \in V’ \setminus V^\ast_{r, p}\}. $$

New Step

A player may also update its step after receiving a timeout event.

On observing a timeout event of \( \FilterTimeout(p) \) for its current period \( p \), the player freezes \( \mu(S, r, p) \) and sets \( s := \Cert \).

On observing a timeout event of \( \DeadlineTimeout(p) \) for its current period \( p \), the player sets \( s := \Next_0 \).

For \( 1 \leq s_t \leq 249 \), on observing a timeout event of \( \DeadlineTimeout(p) + (2^{s_t} - 1)\lambda + u \) for its current period, where \( u \in [0, 2^{s_t}\lambda) \) is sampled uniformly at random, the player sets \( s := \Next_{s_t} \).

Important

IMPLEMENTATION:

New step reference implementation.

In other words,

$$ \begin{aligned} &N((r, p, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, t(\FilterTimeout(p), p)) \\ &\qquad = ((r, p, \Cert, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H’), L, \ldots) \\[0.35em] &N((r, p, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, t(\DeadlineTimeout(p), p)) \\ &\qquad = ((r, p, \Next_0, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H’), L, \ldots) \\[0.35em] &N((r, p, s, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H), L, t(\DeadlineTimeout(p) + (2^{s_t} - 1)\lambda + u, p)) \\ &\qquad = ((r, p, \Next_{s_t}, \bar{s}, V, P, \bar{v}, H’), L, \ldots). \end{aligned} $$