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Orbs Network Protocol Specification

V2 release (other versions)

Table of Contents

Outlines all the various subsystems that make an Orbs network node.

Outlines PoS in the Orbs Universe with incentives, elections and rewards implemented over Ethereum.

The heart of an Orbs node is a set of virtual chains, standalone blockchain instances executing smart contracts and implementing Helix consensus. The interfaces between the various services of a virtual chain are defined here.

Explanation of the flow for a version relase where each of the node subsystems can be upgraded and deployed to validators.

Specification for the binary encoding of protocol network messages (both client protocol and gossip protocol).