At least at a high level, this sounds a lot like Avalanche? Each node tells their neighbors about something and eventually a phase transition is passed that mak

At least at a high level, this sounds a lot like Avalanche? Each node tells their neighbors about something and eventually a phase transition is passed that makes it super difficult for anyone to convince anyone something different happened? (Which itself claims to be revolutionary but has always felt like an example of an Ising model to me, which others have used for consensus.) My biggest concern, at a lower level, is the mechanism used to try to get away from this algorithm having "turns"--which the real world does not have as there is no shared clock due to distance effects (which is made all the worse due to the Internet not satisfying triangle inequality)--seems to rely on a fixed diameter and some timing assumptions that squick me (as someone who always wants to find asynchronous solutions).