Midnight Consensus

The Midnight Network uses a modified Substrate consensus stack: AURA for block production and GRANDPA for finality. Both are extended for Midnight as a Cardano Partnerchain.

Architecture overview

flowchart TB
  subgraph Selection["Validator selection"]
    SPO["Cardano SPO stake delegation"]
    Perm["Optional permissioned validators"]
    VS["Custom validator set function"]
    SPO --> VS
    Perm --> VS
  end