[eternalban]

Got it, thanks. This reminded me of e-Paxos (e for Egalitarian) and a bit of digging there are now 2 additional contenders (Atlas and Gryff, both 2020) in this space per below:

http://rystsov.info/2020/06/27/pacified-consensus.html

[lxpz]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.