by Anne Ouyang, Piedmont Hills High School, San Jose, CA As a summer intern at Trail of Bits, I used the PlusCal and TLA+ formal specification languages to explore Ethereum’s CBC Casper consensus protocol and its Byzantine fault tolerance. This work was motivated by the Medium.com article Peer Review: CBC Casper by Muneeb Ali, Jude … Continue reading Formal Analysis of the CBC Casper Consensus Algorithm with TLA+