# Request for Proposals: Decentralized Prover Coordination **URL:** https://forum.aztec.network/t/request-for-proposals-decentralized-prover-coordination/2397 **Category:** Aztec **Tags:** rfp **Created:** [October 12, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.aztec.network/t/request-for-proposals-decentralized-prover-coordination/2397 "2023-10-12T18:20:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![ellie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@ellie](https://forum.aztec.network/u/ellie) #### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.aztec.network/t/request-for-proposals-decentralized-prover-coordination/2397/8 "2023-11-06T12:43:07Z")
> [@\[Proposal\] - Cooperative BFT proving using striped, redundant binary trees](https://forum.aztec.network/t/proposal-cooperative-bft-proving-using-striped-redundant-binary-trees/2515): > > Summary I propose a cooperative proving network with minimal alterations to Fernet. Provers are randomly from the stake table using a VRF. The proving network is a series of redundant binary trees that build the root proof in parallel. Provers inside the binary tree send their proof chunks across trees to compensate for Byzantine provers. The proving network can be parameterized for f faulty provers out of n total provers. If the sequencer does not distribute the data to provers in a timely… Admittedly this proposal is a bit late - my sincerest apologies for this! I wasn’t aware of this RFP until the day of the deadline. I fully understand that this makes it ineligible for the RFP. However, I wanted to post my (slightly hasty) thoughts since I think this is an interesting distributed systems problem. This proposal does not offer any new ideas, but rather combines interesting ideas from others in a (hopefully) useful way. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.aztec.network/t/request-for-proposals-decentralized-prover-coordination/2397)._