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 VI:
- Episode 12: Consensus – Emergent Cerberus: We illustrate how emergent Cerberus works, which is how nodes come to consensus with one another across shards.
- Episode 13: Partial Ordering – Parallelization of Processing: We describe how nearly all blockchain ledgers order transactions on a global timeline, which prevents them from achieving massive scalability. We then go on to explore how Radix’s innovative use of a partially ordered ledger is the ideal solution, allowing Radix practically infinite linear scalability while preserving atomic composability.
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 VI: Consensus – Emergent Cerberus; Partial Ordering – Parallelization of Processing
Download the PDFs or continue reading below!
- Episode 12: Consensus – Emergent Cerberus
- Episode 13: Partial Ordering – Parallelization of Processing
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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Next – Chapter VII: Maintaining a Record of Transactions; Sybil Resistance Through Proof of Stake; Conclusion
