Common Prefix

Common Prefix is taking the lead stewardship role of Axelar. We are excited to share our plans for 2026, with more details to be announced in Q1. Our team consists of scientists–professors, PhDs, and post-docs–from world-renowned universities like Stanford, Imperial, ETH Zürich, and University of Edinburgh. But also senior engineers with decades of experience in hedge funds, TradFi, and Web3. We bridge the gap between science and engineering. We are razor-sharp focused on institutional adoption. For this, we will double down on the ecosystems that matter like XRPL, Sui, Solana, Ethereum, Stellar, and Hyperliquid. We will make sure that supported connections bring value to the ecosystem, and the right incentives for validators. For institutional, we need increased economic security. We’ll enable co-staking of blue chip tokens beyond just AXL. Privacy, compliance, and robustness will also be a theme for the year. For bridging, we will remove friction of moving assets from chain to chain by introducing gasless bridging. Subsidies will come from investing capital locked in gateway contracts, creating novel asset classes. Users will always have the choice to act according to their risk appetite. Lastly, we’re building up-the-stack in select key verticals: stablecoins, tokenized deposits, yield, and lending. A fusion of new chains creates an opportunity for new emerging asset classes.

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Σε 3 μέρες τα λέμε απο κοντά για ποτό, σνακ και κοινωνικοποιήση παρέα με το @ETHGlobal και την @CommonPrefix στο SuiHub στην Αθήνα. Αν δεν έχεις κάνει ήδη register, προλαβαίνεις ακόμα 👇 luma.com/ethglobal-hh-a…

Lately, through our @commonprefix / @XRPLF engagement, I've been personally working on understanding & analyzing the XRPL consensus protocol. It's a complicated protocol, and part of our work is to distill its essence & simplify its presentation for scientists & developers alike.

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@CommonPrefix @XRPLF Really useful breakdown of the XRPL consensus phases. The three-phase structure (Open → Establish → Accepted) is one of the things that makes the ledger fast and reliable. Thanks for sharing the diagram!

As part of our work with @XRPLF on formally specifying the XRP Ledger consensus protocol, we're sharing a short description of its three phases and the role each plays in reaching agreement. 1/8 🧵

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After signing the validation, the round restarts on top of the new ledger, driven by a timer that fires every second. On each tick, a fork-choice rule checks that the validator is extending the preferred branch of the ledger tree; if not, it abandons the current round and realigns before continuing. 8/8

In the Accepted phase, each validator builds the new ledger from the agreed transaction set and appends it to its chain. It then broadcasts a Validation, a signed vote for that ledger. Any time a ledger gathers a quorum of Validations from a validator's trusted peers, the protocol marks it as fully validated and treats it as the finalized tip. 7/8

The season finale of Honest Majority brings together Common Prefix’s co-founders, Dionysis Zindros (@dionyziz) and Nikolaos Kamarinakis (@nikolaskama), to discuss @axelar's new chapter following the stewardship transition. Coming soon.

Season 1 of Honest Majority is coming to an end. One final conversation.

Most chains ship first, audit later. XRPL is doing it differently @CommonPrefix is formally verifying the consensus mechanism + maintaining the Payment Engine spec mathematical proof that bugs don't exist, not just tests that hope they don't The bar just got raised.

The conclusion: there can be no scalable, practical, provably robust security without formal verification. Still, the field has a long way to go. 6/6

Formal verification offers guarantees that testing cannot, but it comes with more engineering effort, deeper expertise, and longer timelines than standard development. 5/6

Formal verification is getting some traction in the world of blockchains. But what is it, why is it relevant, and how can we make good use of it? Read the full blog post by our very own Dr. Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos: 1/6 commonprefix.com/blog/formal-ve…