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How Do ‘Byzantine Fault Tolerance’ (BFT) Consensus Mechanisms Offer Stronger Finality?

BFT mechanisms, common in PoS systems, achieve absolute finality because they require a supermajority (often two-thirds) of honest validators to explicitly agree on the block order. Once a block is finalized, it is mathematically impossible to revert without slashing the stake of the two-thirds majority, making reversal economically prohibitive and offering a stronger, deterministic form of finality than PoW's probabilistic finality.

What Is a “Byzantine Fault Tolerance” System in Blockchain Consensus?
How Does the ‘Economic Finality’ of PoS Compare to the ‘Probabilistic Finality’ of PoW?
Define ‘Byzantine Fault Tolerance’ (BFT)
What Is the “Supermajority” Requirement in Most PoS Systems and Why Is It Used?