tendermint

tendermint

tl; dr

• consensus protocol for ordering events in a distributed network under adversarial conditions (aka byzantine fault tolerant consenus, or atomic broadcast).
• tendermint consists of two technical components: a blockchain consensus engine and a generic application interface, and works even if up to 1/3 of machines fail in arbitrary ways.
• tendermint core (the consensus engine) performs BFT state machine replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines.
• the application interface (abci) enables the transactions to be processed in any programming language.

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cool resources

• tendermint docs
• tenderming abci
• the latest gossip on BFT consensus, e. buchman et al.
• cometbft (a distributed byzantine fault-tolerant derterministic state machine replication engine)