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 III:
- Episode 6: Substate
We explain that the entire Radix ledger will be composed of millions upon millions of substates. Each substate represents a change to the ledger and, once committed, is final.
- Episode 7: Substate and Transactions
We explore how substates are created in transactions, which are always cross-shard.
We also explain that in every transaction two types of substate must be created: “shut down” and “bring up”.
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 III: Substate; Substate and Transactions
Download the PDFs or continue reading below!
- Episode 6: Substate
- Episode 7: Substate and Transactions
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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