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AssigneeCypherium Blockchain Inc.
InventorsYangrui Guo, Qiandong Yang, Hui Zhou, Weiqiang Lu, Sheng Zeng, Liang Yang, Sicong Zhuang
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A distributed transaction system is provided including a group of validator nodes that are known to each other in a network but are indistinguishable to other network nodes. The validator nodes form a Committee including a Leader node and one or more Associate nodes configured to receive and process transaction requests, for example, to add new blocks to one or more blockchains. The Committee may be dynamically changed, such that new network nodes may be added to the Committee or may replace existing validator nodes. The Associate nodes also may coordinate with each other to select a new Leader node. The validator nodes in the Committee may be changed at a sufficient frequency to remove unreliable, unavailable, or otherwise untrusted nodes.
A network node in a network comprising a committee of validator nodes and at least one client node, the network node comprising at least one processor and at least one memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the network node to perform the following steps of a reconfiguration process for reconfiguring the membership of validator nodes in the committee, the steps comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by executed by a processor of a network node in a network comprising a committee of validator nodes and at least one client node, configure the network node to perform the following steps of a reconfiguration process for reconfiguring the membership of validator nodes in the committee, the steps comprising:
A method for managing a network node in a network comprising a committee of validator nodes and at least one client node, the method comprising:
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