Orbs - Read the Helix Consensus Algorithm White Paper
Hazel is a Byzantine fault-tolerant and scalable consensus algorithm for the fair ordering of transactions among nodes in a distributed network.
It assumed that:
- Node-node connections are assumed to be strongly synchronous.
- There is a known bound for the faulty nodes.
It is scalable because the PBFT committee size is bounded.
Helix archives fairness in these aspects.
- Committee selection relies on reputation and a random seed.
- Transactions are randomly selected when they are encrypted.
Both committee election and transactions sampling utilize a random seed derived from the previous decrypted block.
Helix nodes validate block transaction by checking the distribution overlap with local transaction pool.