Expanded Clique Block Choice Rule

Status history

1. Draft25 Mar 2021
2. ⋯Stagnantdate not observed

Abstract

The current specification of Clique allows for multiple competing blocks from producers but does not provide any strategies to pick blocks aside from the current "highest total difficulty" rule. This EIP proposes a four step choice rule of highest total difficulty, shortest chain, most recently in-turn, and lowest hash. This would prevent deadlocks that have occurred in production systems.