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# Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus

**Source:** Unknown  
**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://blog.cloudflare.com/meerkat-introduction/  

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- [Overview](#overview)

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## Overview

Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.

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