Pith Number

pith:PEIA6TW6

pith:2025:PEIA6TW6R57LX7NJJ6TZTKKWN2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Carry the Tail in Consensus Protocols

Dahlia Malkhi, Dakai Kang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Suyash Gupta

arxiv:2508.12173 v1 · 2025-08-16 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PEIA6TW6R57LX7NJJ6TZTKKWN2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:55:01.229408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79100f4ede8f7ebbfda94fa799a9566ebd6f9ae3527a83904e8e270636187d08

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.12173 · arxiv_version: 2508.12173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.12173 · pith_short_12: PEIA6TW6R57L · pith_short_16: PEIA6TW6R57LX7NJ · pith_short_8: PEIA6TW6

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PEIA6TW6R57LX7NJJ6TZTKKWN2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 79100f4ede8f7ebbfda94fa799a9566ebd6f9ae3527a83904e8e270636187d08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "699fbc02eac9f1c9d3c932ff3bde2f294ec2e7cef00a669c1295ea51199de31a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-16T22:39:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2a119d7ed63ac4cfae3d258e7a074ed7af4592eadce3d0fbfdcfb7cd4d46872"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.12173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}