Onchain Logic and State

The Midnight node follows the standard Polkadot SDK model: core logic (except native pre-compiles) compiles to WebAssembly (WASM) and forms the runtime — the state transition function executed identically on every node.

Runtime architecture

flowchart TB
  subgraph Runtime["WASM Runtime"]
    direction TB
    PA["pallet-aura"]
    PG["pallet-grandpa"]
    PS["pallet-partnerchains-session"]
    PVM["pallet_session_validator_management"]
    PM["pallet-midnight ★"]
    Other["Other FRAME pallets"]
  end