AQR-M: Implementation and Evaluation of Adaptive Quorum Reserve on the Metriq Network
A v27-compatible reference implementation, validator-design analysis, and slot-bound activation
Implement signed profile confinement, slot-bound activation and crash-safe recovery in a research reference system. The corrected four-validator reserve design is compared with alternatives in a synthetic timing emulator.
- Identifier
- MF-PRISM-DLT-2026-02
- Series
- Distributed Systems
- Edition
- Version 1.2
- Length
- 23 pages
- Reserved DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.22728313 (record reserved)
What is this paper trying to establish?
How can Adaptive Quorum Reserve be implemented with deterministic activation and crash-safe recovery?
The central idea.
Implement signed profile confinement, slot-bound activation and crash-safe recovery in a research reference system. The corrected four-validator reserve design is compared with alternatives in a synthetic timing emulator.
Research reference implementation and synthetic timing evaluation, retaining the corrected four-validator reserve model of v1.1. No public-network deployment, compiled production patch, or production ledger-close benchmark is claimed.
This report develops a conditional method and evaluates it within the stated evidence. It does not establish production performance, operational safety, or calibrated real-world predictive skill beyond that evidence.
What changes if the method holds?
The work translates a safety idea into concrete activation, signing, replay, and recovery rules while keeping synthetic evaluation separate from production claims.
Where scrutiny should concentrate.
The paper identifies the following points as the highest-value targets for independent review.
- 01Register-before-switch and one local quorum-set hash per slot.
- 02Validator-level versus organization-level Byzantine assumptions.
- 03Crash replay, telemetry assumptions and synthetic performance scope.
An open, inspectable research artifact.
The public record links the manuscript to its release, source package, review materials, and persistent identifier. Status travels with the paper; a reserved DOI is not presented as a published Zenodo record.
- Document
- Research Paper
- Review status
- Open for independent review
- Published
- 2026-09-12
- DOI status
- Reserved · 10.5281/zenodo.22728313
- Canonical record
- MF-PRISM-DLT-2026-02