info_tfgrid/collections/tfgrid4/consensus_mechanism.md

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.