Welcome back to the Cerberus Infographic Series, where we take an in-depth look at how Cerberus, Radix’s unique consensus protocol, will provide the unlimited, frictionless scalability required to bring Decentralized Finance (DeFi) to billions of people.

Today’s chapter is Chapter V:

• Episode 10: Nakamoto vs BFT-style Consensus - We provide background information on consensus protocols, summarizing the two most popular classes: Nakamoto, which is what’s used in Bitcoin; and BFT-style, which is the class of protocol that Cerberus falls under.

• Episode 11: Consensus - Local Cerberus - We explain how local Cerberus works, which is how nodes in the same “validator set” come to consensus with one another within a single shard.

Here’s the running order:

Chapter I: Introduction; Summary; Why Blockchains Can’t Scale

Chapter II: What is Radix?; The Shardspace and Validator Sets

Chapter III: Substate; Substate and Transactions

Chapter IV: Shard Allocation; Transactions

Chapter V: Nakamoto vs BFT-style Consensus; Consensus - Local Cerberus

Chapter VI: Consensus - Emergent Cerberus; Partial Ordering - Parallelization of Processing

Chapter VII: Maintaining a Record of Transactions; Sybil Resistance Through Proof of Stake; Conclusion

Chapter V: Nakamoto vs BFT-style Consensus; Consensus - Local Cerberus

Download the PDFs or continue reading below!

• Episode 10: Nakamoto vs BFT-style Consensus
• Episode 11: Consensus - Local Cerberus

If you’re feeling adventurous before the rest of the chapters, you can take a look at the Cerberus Whitepaper or independent academic validation of Cerberus for the technical details! 

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NEXT: Consensus - Emergent Cerberus; Partial Ordering - Parallelization of Processing