# A Crypto 2026 paper quietly deletes the randomness beacon permissionless consensus leaned on

A cryptography paper accepted to Crypto 2026 pulls off something narrow, and is refreshingly upfront about it: it deletes a clock. Not the wall-mounted kind. What goes is a randomness beacon — the always-on service that hands every participant in a protocol a fresh public random value at regular int

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| Published | 18 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/a-crypto-2026-paper-quietly-deletes-the-randomness-beacon-permissionless-consensus-leaned-on/