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Jun 11, 2026 · Blockchain

How Agora Uncovered 15 Zero‑Day Deep Bugs in Consensus Protocols with an Industrial‑Grade Multi‑Agent Framework

The paper presents Agora, a hypothesis‑driven multi‑agent system that integrates domain knowledge with large‑model agents to automatically detect deep logic bugs in production‑level consensus protocols, discovering 15 previously unknown vulnerabilities across Raft, EPaxos, HotStuff and BullShark while outperforming GPT‑5.2, Claude 4.5 and other baselines at a fraction of the token cost.