Add Consensus team update for 2024-10-02 (#476)

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+title: Consensus Team Update
+slug: 2024-10-02-consensus
+authors: dnadales
+tags: [consensus]
+hide_table_of_contents: false
+---
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+## High level summary
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+Over the past two weeks, we worked on establishing a first baseline for the Consensus QTA ([#1256](https://github.com/IntersectMBO/ouroboros-consensus/issues/1256)).
+This work is also helping inform discussions with the Networking team about sync performance goals in general and for specific improvements, such as Genesis.
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+UTXO-HD was rebased atop `main` and the [tests are passing](https://tests.cardano.intersectmbo.org/test_results/node/utxo_hd_9_1_1.html).
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+Finally, the team has also worked to improve the Consensus layer's robustness and security.