The stake pool selected by Ouroboros to produce a block in a given time slot. Selection is probabilistic, weighted by the pool's delegated stake.
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- OuroborosThe family of proof-of-stake consensus protocols that power Cardano, designed with formal security proofs against the known attack catalogue against PoS chains.View term
- Stake PoolA server node that participates in the Cardano network by validating transactions and producing blocks.View term
- VRFA cryptographic function that produces a verifiably random output; Cardano uses it inside Ouroboros as a private per-slot lottery, letting each pool check whether it won the right to produce a block, fairly and unpredictably.View term