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Public or distributed
Distributed leader selection
A network chooses who proposes or coordinates the next step without one party deciding alone.
Evaluation card
What “plenty” means here.
- Required property
- Unbiasable or bias-resistant shared randomness, verifiable eligibility, and resistance to grinding.
- If it fails
- A participant tries many candidate inputs, withholds contributions, or predicts future leaders.
- Relevant attacker
- Strategic participants controlling stake, nodes, message timing, or some randomness contributors.
- The Plenty Line
- Use the protocol’s reviewed beacon or verifiable-random-function construction and account for adaptive corruption.
- Why more is not automatically better
- More bits do not fix economic concentration, network capture, or a grinding opportunity.
Where it appears
Recognize the pattern.
- 01consensus committees
- 02block proposers
- 03distributed schedulers
The Plentropy rule
Protect the requirement, then stop.
Use the protocol’s reviewed beacon or verifiable-random-function construction and account for adaptive corruption.
Once that claim has comfortable evidence and margin, improve the next limiting factor instead of worshipping a larger entropy number.