Peras design document

The WIP Peras design document is available here as a PDF.

Building

You can build via Nix:

nix build

Or in the Nix shell (enter via nix develop or nix-direnv) for a more interactive experience:

cd ./design
latexmk peras-design.tex

Resources

Resources on Peras, recommended to look at in roughly this order:

• Cardano Problem Statement (CPS) on "Settlement Speed", the objective of Peras: https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CPS-0017/README.md
• Cardano Improvement Proposal (CIP) on Peras directly: cardano-foundation/CIPs#872
  • Rendered version of the proposal
• The SoW
• Video on Peras by an IOG researcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJzwoArqg4 (ignore the "Avoiding the cooldown phase" part at the end, this is not part of the "pre-alpha" version of Peras that we are focusing on)
• From the Peras web site:
  • The FAQ
  • The simulator
  • The dashboard (just briefly at first)
  • The technical reports (1&2), lots of overlap with the CIP, but sometimes more details, so makes sense to just skim them first