Snowfall99 / themix-v2

ThemiX normal case

Design Overview

This is the high-level architecture of ThemiX, it consists of three components:

• noise layer
• consensus layer
• proposer

Noise Layer

Noise layer uses a p2p library to communication with other themix nodes. In current implementation, the noise layer has many components:

• Noise node, which broadcasts and receives messages from other themix nodes.
• Verify pool, which verifies message signature.

Consensus Layer

Consensus layer is the layer to run themix consensus. This layer consists of a queue of themix. Themix adapts ACS (Asynchronous Common Subset) framework, which consists of RBC (Reliable Broadcast) and ABA (Asynchronous Binary Agreement).

Proposer

Proposer communicates with client using gRPC, the message sent between them is in the form of protobuf.