One of the most challenges in distributed consensus mechanisms is both time complexity and message complexity.
For example, PBFT message complexity is O(n^2) that means that it is only scalable to tens of nodes. Thus, classical BFT (Byzantine Fault Tolerant) consensus mechanisms are not scalable to the large networks.
Nevertheless, I am looking for the most scalable BFT consensus among all.
In other words, is there a distributed BFT consensus with less than O(n^2) message complexity?
P.S. I brought up this question before in scicomp.stackexchange.com, but they suggested me to bring up it here. (https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/q/36087/37225)
