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$$ \newcommand \Seed {\mathrm{Seed}} $$

Cryptographic Seed

The seed is a 256-bit integer.

Seeds are validated and updated according to the specification of the Algorand Byzantine Fault Tolerance protocol.

The \( \Seed \) procedure specified there returns the seed from the desired round.