## 2 Consensus Mechanisms

> TODO: needs review, especially if we will use holochain

### Guardian Circles. 

* 9-99 nodes, each Guardian runs one Guardian Circles Node.

Holding all the logic as needed to manage following functions

* Checking uptime. 
* Management of treasury on CHI Chain
* Keeping track of capacity used 
* keeping track of capacity deployed  
* Providing Proof of Payment (needed for the ZOS nodes to deploy a workload)
* Identity Verification
* Federation with other Guardian Circles (e.g. around identity and reputation)

The Guardian Chain functions can be accessed over OpenRPC.