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Fairgate Introduces BATTLE: A New Take on Fraud-Proof Disputes
Fairgate has unveiled BATTLE, a new tournament-style dispute protocol that tackles the fraud proof trilemma without requiring massive security bonds. This first paper lays out the theory and scope, with a follow-up soon to show how BATTLE can be applied to Bitcoin
BATTLE operates in two phases: a bracket tournament among competing asserters, then a challenger phase where the winner faces all challengers in structured rounds that progressively double concurrent disputes as capital allows.