Crate commonware_consensus

Order opaque messages in a Byzantine environment.

Status

commonware-consensus is ALPHA software and is not yet recommended for production use. Developers should expect breaking changes and occasional instability.

Modules

ordered_broadcast

Ordered, reliable broadcast across reconfigurable participants.

simplex

Simple and fast BFT agreement inspired by Simplex Consensus.

threshold_simplex

Simplex-like BFT agreement with an embedded VRF and succinct consensus certificates.

Traits

Automaton

Automaton is the interface responsible for driving the consensus forward by proposing new payloads and verifying payloads proposed by other participants.

Monitor

Monitor is the interface an external actor can use to observe the progress of a consensus implementation.

Relay

Relay is the interface responsible for broadcasting payloads to the network.

Reporter

Reporter is the interface responsible for reporting activity to some external actor.

Supervisor

Supervisor is the interface responsible for managing which participants are active at a given time.

ThresholdSupervisor

ThresholdSupervisor is the interface responsible for managing which identity (typically a group polynomial with a fixed constant factor) and share for a participant is active at a given time.