Ouroboros: self-healing in the wild
Professor Aggelos Kiayias analyzed the November 21 incident, where a serialization bug caused a temporary chain split. He explains how the Ouroboros protocol's self-healing design and longest chain rule successfully resolved the partition without central intervention. Once SPOs upgraded their nodes, the network converged back to a single history, demonstrating the resilience of decentralized consensus under real-world stress.
