Why does DAGKNIGHT avoid relying on network latency estimates?

DAGKNIGHT is designed not to depend on estimates of how fast messages travel across the network, because those estimates can be wrong or manipulated. Many consensus protocols bake in assumptions about network latency — the time it takes data to move between miners. If those assumptions are off, or if an attacker deliberately exploits them, the protocol's security guarantees can weaken. By making fewer such assumptions, DAGKNIGHT removes those attack surfaces. For a beginner, the practical takeaway is that DAGKNIGHT is built to hold up in real-world network conditions rather than only in a tidy theoretical model where timing always behaves as expected.