Delay towers provide many benefits to BFT networks, including diverse distribution of participants, Sybil resistance, eco-friendliness, determinism, and others. This post delves into one specific implementation of delay towers and its integration with a high-throughput BFT network for bootstrapping purposes, and offers it as a strategy to achieve the goals of a free and fair chain launch.

By extending puzzle towers with VDF, a delay tower becomes a permissionless and non-forgeable identity which is fast to verify. This is a form of sybil resistance, we don't observe in any other system. A delay tower becomes a permissionless and non-forgeable identity which is fast to verify. These properties make a delay tower unique, scarce, and perhaps valuable in its own right.

Puzzle towers may offer a new Sybil resistance technique worth exploring for permissionless environments, especially during network bootstrapping. They offer a glimpse into what a different game for starting a diverse BFT network might look like. However, without modifying the type of work done in a puzzle tower, the advantages given to current PoW miners would make the proposal a non-starter. Alternatives to traditional PoW will be discussed in the following article.

A fair launch of a high-throughput layer-1 blockchain is happening. You won't need to buy anything or otherwise pay a centralized organization for access. The goal is to create a new standard in blockchain bootstrapping through Delay Towers. There's a new layer-1 chain that wants to exist.