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Safety and Liveness of Cross-Domain State Preservation under Byzantine Faults: A Mechanized Proof in Isabelle/HOL

arXiv:2604.038447.3
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For developers and regulators of tokenized asset systems operating across heterogeneous blockchains, this provides the first mechanized guarantee of both safety and liveness under Byzantine faults, promoting conditional safety to an unconditional guarantee.

This work presents a mechanized proof in Isabelle/HOL establishing safety (cross-domain state preservation) and liveness (under Byzantine faults) for regulatory state transitions in cross-domain synchronization systems. The proof comprises 2,348 lines and covers bidirectional roundtrip preservation, consistency across arbitrary domains, and deterministic resolution of conflicting actions under f < n/3 Byzantine nodes.

Formally guaranteeing the safety and liveness of regulatory state transitions in cross-domain state synchronization systems is a problem of growing importance as tokenized assets are increasingly operated across heterogeneous blockchain networks and off-chain ledgers. This paper presents a mechanized proof of 2,348 lines in Isabelle/HOL establishing two complementary properties. First, cross-domain state preservation (safety): a regulatory state transition performed on one domain is faithfully reflected across all connected domains with structural preservation. This guarantee encompasses bidirectional roundtrip preservation, consistency across an arbitrary finite set of domains, and per-asset isolation. Second, liveness under Byzantine faults: in the presence of up to f < n/3 Byzantine nodes, we prove deterministic resolution of conflicting regulatory actions, deadlock freedom, and starvation freedom. In the combination of these two properties, the liveness proof discharges the honest-node assumption of the safety proof under Byzantine faults, promoting conditional safety to an unconditional guarantee. The seven generic locales derived in this process are domain-independent and reusable for arbitrary domains via Isabelle/HOL's interpretation mechanism. The application context is a regulatory state transition model based on the RCP framework (arXiv:2603.29278), which systematizes 31 requirements from 15 global financial regulatory authorities. All proof artifacts build in Isabelle/HOL without sorry or oops, have been submitted to the Archive of Formal Proofs (under review), and are publicly available on GitHub.

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