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TLDR: Minimmit achieves finality in one signing round, replacing Casper FFG’s two-round justification and finalization process. (truncate to fit — 105 chars) The new gadget lowers fault tolerance from 33% to 17%, but raises the unilateral censorship threshold from 67% to 83%. Buterin argues censorship poses a greater threat than finality reversion, as it lacks immediate, verifiable on-chain evidence. Minimmit requires 83% of clients to share a bug before incorrect finalization occurs, giving developers a wider safety margin. Minimmit has been put forward as a direct replacement for Casper FFG within Ethereum’s consensus layer. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently shared a detailed technical post comparing both finality gadgets. Casper FFG has long served as a two-round finality mechanism on the network. The proposed system, by contrast, achieves finality in a single round of validator signatures. The proposal is drawing attention as the Ethereum community continues to evaluate changes to its consensus architecture. Why the New System Operates in a Single Round Casper FFG asks each attester to sign a block on two separate occasions. The first signature “justifies” the block, and the second “finalizes” it. Minimmit cuts this down to a single signing round. This makes the process more efficient for validators across the network. The change comes with a direct cost to fault tolerance, though. The new system’s threshold sits at 17%, compared to 33% under Casper FFG. A smaller portion of malicious stake can therefore disrupt finality under the new model. Still, Buterin’s post makes the case that other properties of the system more than offset this drop. In the post shared on X, Buterin described himself as a long-standing “security assumptions hawk” in Ethereum’s consensus research. He cited his past push for 49% fault tolerance under synchrony. One important technical item that I forgot to mention is…

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