Grassroots Consensus

Grassroots platforms aim to offer an egalitarian alternative to global platforms -- centralized/autocratic and decentralized/plutocratic alike. Within the grassroots architecture, consensus is needed to realize platforms that employ digital social contracts, which are like smart contracts except that they are among people not accounts and are executed by these people's smartphones not by high-performance servers controlled by parties outside to the contract. Key envisioned grassroots platforms include sovereign democratic digital communities and federations, community banks and their grassroots cryptocurrencies, and digital cooperatives.

@article{keidar2025_2505.19216,
  title={ Grassroots Consensus },
  author={ Idit Keidar and Andrew Lewis-Pye and Ehud Shapiro },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19216},
  year={ 2025 }
}