Finality comparison
Arc’s Malachite BFT consensus, a Byzantine Fault Tolerant protocol, finalizes blocks in under one second. This is orders of magnitude faster than the finality guarantees on other networks:Use cases
Sub-second deterministic finality enables use cases that are impractical on slower networks:Developer benefits
Deterministic finality simplifies application design by removing the edge cases that probabilistic chains force you to handle.No reorg handling
You don’t need retry logic, rollback mechanisms, or confirmation-count
thresholds. A confirmed transaction stays confirmed.
Immediate offchain effects
Safely trigger downstream actions (webhooks, database writes, notifications)
as soon as a block is committed, without waiting for additional
confirmations.
Simplified state management
Your application only needs to track two transaction states—unconfirmed and
final—rather than tracking a sliding confirmation window.
Enterprise compliance
Settlement finality is auditable and provable, meeting the assurance
requirements of regulated financial institutions.