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Consensus Overview

Scope​

  • Consensus crate
  • Artifact pool
  • Chain key technology
  • Ingress manager
  • Orchestrator
  • Ic-replay
  • Upgrades
  • Subnet recovery
  • Subnet backup
  • Subnet splitting

Summary​

  • The consensus layer receives unordered messages from the P2P layer.
  • Consensus achieves agreement as to which messages and in which order the IC should execute.
  • It can do this as long as more than ⅔ of the nodes are honest and functioning well.

Resources​

Codebase​