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GRANDPA

GHOST-based Recursive ANcestor Deriving Prefix Agreement
GRANDPA (GHOST-based Recursive ANcestor Deriving Prefix Agreement), also previously known as SHAFT (SHared Ancestry Finality Tool), and originally known as AfG, is a finality gadget for blockchains, implemented in Rust.

Used in

  • Polkadot is a blockchain for scalable decentralized computation and interoperability.

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Resources

The first implementation is underway in Rust at https://github.com/paritytech/finality-afg