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Avalanche Consensus

Learn how blockchains arrive at consensus using different mechanisms.

Avalanche Consensus is a novel consensus protocol that is used in the Avalanche network. It is a leaderless, decentralized, and scalable consensus protocol that is used to achieve consensus on the state of the network.

What You Will Learn

In this section, you will go through the following topics:

  • Consensus Mechanisms: Understand what consensus mechanisms are and how they work
  • Snowman Consensus: Learn about the Snowman consensus protocol
  • TPS vs TTF: Understand the difference between transactions per second (TPS) and time to finality (TTF)
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