Welcome to the Cerberus Infographic Series, where we take an in-depth look at how Cerberus, Radix’s unique consensus protocol, will provide the unlimited, frictionless scalability required to bring Decentralized Finance (DeFi) to billions of people.
Today’s chapter is Chapter II:
- Episode 4: What is Radix?
We explain that Radix is software run on nodes (computers) that collectively form the Radix Public Network. We then explore how the two layers of Radix, Radix Engine and Cerberus, work hand in hand to deliver the features that distinguish Radix from all other distributed ledgers.
- Episode 5: The Shardspace and Validator Sets
We examine one of the keys to Radix’s immense scalability — pre-sharding of the Radix ledger into a practically infinite number of fixed shards.
We then go on to describe how Validator Sets, which are collections of nodes, each serve an individual shard.
Here’s the running order:
Chapter I: Introduction; Summary; Why Blockchains Can’t Scale
Chapter II: What is Radix?; The Shardspace and Validator Sets
Chapter III: Substate; Substate and Transactions
Chapter IV: Shard Allocation; Transactions
Chapter V: Nakamoto vs BFT-style Consensus; Consensus - Local Cerberus
Chapter VI: Consensus - Emergent Cerberus; Partial Ordering - Parallelization of Processing
Chapter VII: Maintaining a Record of Transactions; Sybil Resistance Through Proof of Stake; Conclusion
Chapter II: What is Radix?; The Shardspace and Validator Sets
Download the PDFs or continue reading below!
- Episode 4: What is Radix?
- Episode 5: The Shardspace and Validator Sets
If you’re feeling adventurous before the rest of the chapters, you can take a look at the Cerberus Whitepaper or independent academic validation of Cerberus for the technical details!
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