04 // HELIOS RESEARCH ARCHIVE & CRYPTOGRAPHIC DISPATCHES
Formal Specifications on Finality, Restaking Bounds & ZK Proofs.
Peer-reviewed protocol notes published by Helios Labs researchers for institutional validators, AVS architects, and security auditors.
PROTOCOL PAPER 01 // BFT CONSENSUS
Deterministic 380ms Finality via Pipelined HotStuff & RaptorCast DAG
Decoupling erasure-coded transaction dissemination from quorum certificate voting eliminates leader bandwidth bottlenecks across 300+ global validators.
Dr. Lukas Meier · Chief Cryptographer
9 Min Technical Read
PROTOCOL PAPER 02 // RESTAKING ECONOMICS
Bounding Correlated AVS Slashing Risk With Isolated Epoch Quorums
Unbounded restaking exposes L1 consensus safety to external middleware bugs unless each Actively Validated Service enforces deterministic per-epoch slash ceilings.
Nadia Khoury · Formal Verification
8 Min Technical Read
PROTOCOL PAPER 03 // ZK COMPUTE
Verifying FP16 Transformer Matrix Multiplications With Plonky3 Proofs
Combining Sumcheck lookup arguments with hardware TEE attestations drops verifiable GPU inference overhead from 1,000x to under 14%.
Devon Hartley · ZK Compute Lead
11 Min Technical Read
PROTOCOL PAPER 04 // TOKENOMICS
Validator Issuance Equilibrium Under Protocol-Level MEV Smoothing
Committee-smoothed MEV capture reduces validator reward variance by 78% and prevents centralizing builder-relayer cartels.
Kavya Ramanathan · Runtime Lead
7 Min Technical Read
HELIOS PROTOCOL
Modular L1 consensus, shared-security AVS restaking, and ZK-verified decentralized GPU compute network. Non-custodial marketing interface — zero wallet private keys or live RPC signing requested.
PROTOCOL & NODES
Modular L1 & AVS Architecture
Institutional Validator Clusters
Staking Tiers & Slashing Caps
Yield & Hardware Simulator
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