I was reading up on the recent article from @SonicLabs about Formal Verification & DAG consensus. To be honest, this is the kind of stuff that makes me geek out hard, so I had to simplify it and share it for an easier understanding for my fellow Sooonic nerds who love the technical rabbit holes and giga brain stuff. Firstly, if you're like, "What do DAGs do, bro? What does it mean?" 🔷DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph): 🔹Each transaction is like a node in a giant web. 🔹Instead of waiting for blocks, transactions directly reference multiple earlier ones, allowing the web to go deeper. 🔹Creates a branching, web-like structure versus the traditional single block linear style blockchain. 🔹Different DAG protocols are currently in use (DAG-Rider, Hashgraph, Aleph, Cordial Miner, ES Bullshark), each excelling in different areas, with no perfect winner (see my Radar chart below ⤵️). 🔷Now, how Sonic's Approach is Different: Sonic built their own unique protocol from scratch and developed a verification library that proves correctness across multiple DAG protocols, including Sonic's (short terms, giga brain stuff👀): 🔹Validators create event blocks referencing several earlier events. 🔹Uses overlapping elections across layers to choose "leader" events for speed. 🔹Once elected as leaders, events get linearized into the main chain. 🔹Built specifically for Asynchronous BFT (Byzantine Fault Tolerance) and PoS (not mixing DAG-rider, Hashgraph, etc.). 🔷Why This Actually Matters: Most crypto security today is like, "We tested it extensively, found no bugs... probably safe?" 🤷‍♂️ Sonic now uses mathematical PROOF that unsafe behavior is literally impossible. Not "unlikely" but IMPOSSIBLE. Not just probability, but it's mathematical certainty. The numbers are wild: 14 person-months of formal verification research, now open-source for the entire blockchain community. This shifts the entire industry from "trust us, we tested" to "here's the mathematical proof it works" using TLA+ formal verification. Your crypto was always only as safe as the math behind it, and now we have THE MATH OF THE MATHY MATH MATH for it. Shoutout to @SonicAssistant for reposting the article; otherwise, I would have missed it🤝 🔷Charts below: 1⃣General DAG mechanisms 2⃣5 different DAG architecture capabilities 3⃣About Sonic 4⃣Key insights.