What is the consensus algorithm used

[Crazy-MT]

[conglinduye]

TRON's consensus algorithm refers to the Raft-based consensus algorithm and Tendermint's consensus algorithm.
Raft：Each node in a Raft cluster can switch between three states based on how the cluster is running: follower, candidate, and leader. The leader synchronizes the log to the follower, and the follower only gets the log from the leader.
Tendermint is a BFT consensus protocol that is easy to understand and mostly asynchronous.

[professoroakz]

Dios fucking mio. Raft.

[marcolopes]

@OktayGardener , you don't like it?

[Eyesonly88]

Each node in a Raft cluster can switch between three states based on how the cluster is running: follower, candidate, and leader

@conglinduye What does the candidate do in this case? Who's proposing what to vote on? how long are those logs stored for and where are they stored? or are they just streamed through Kafka?

[ifelsefi]

How can Tron use BFT and Raft? I am not an expert on this topic though as explained here it seems Raft would not work for blockchain.

[shunyau]

Yes, please elaborate, there are mentions that raft is not a viable solution for a public blockchain on the web. It would require all nodes to be trustworthy for it to work.

https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/23071/bitcoin-ethereum-raft-paxo
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-a-blockchain-implementation-different-than-a-distributed-consensus-system-like-raft

[ifelsefi]

@shunyau

Does this help?

[zscole]

Is there an actual technical whitepaper because I'm having trouble understanding the value Tron proposes.

[Rovak]

More information can be found on the website https://tron.network/entechnical.html. If you have anymore questions then you can reopen this issue