Accounts, Transactions, and Wallets
Locus Chain accounts issue transactions and are identified by cryptographic addresses functioning as public keys. Transactions, secured by digital signatures, drive data exchange, asset transfers, and contract execution. Wallets track account states—balances and tokens—updating transparently via recorded transactions. This system underpins digital asset management and smart contracts across various applications.
Ledger and Ledger Partitioning
The World Ledger is Locus Chain’s comprehensive transaction record, enhanced by sharding for scalability. Each shard manages specific accounts and transactions, lightening data loads on individual nodes. By splitting the ledger into smaller segments, Locus Chain can handle rising network demand without sacrificing efficiency, delivering virtually limitless throughput.
Nodes and Locus Chain Network
The Locus Chain Network is a fully decentralized peer-to-peer architecture where nodes store data, process transactions, and maintain consensus, ensuring stability. Operators earn rewards for verifying transactions and producing blocks. With no central authority or single failure point, the network remains transparent, neutral, and secure, upholding trust and decentralization.
Shards, Shard Nodes, and Shard Network
Shards are core to Locus Chain’s distributed data strategy, each handling a subset of accounts and transactions. Nodes assigned to a shard handle validation, storage, and block creation. Inter-shard communication ensures synchronized data and consistent ledger updates. This approach boosts throughput, prunes redundant data, and maintains efficiency as usage grows.
Dynamic Sharding
Locus Chain’s dynamic sharding adjusts shard configurations based on transaction loads, redistributing accounts and data when capacity is near. This ensures balanced, stable processing, even during surges. By automatically splitting overloaded shards and transferring their data, the network maintains consistent performance, accommodating varied demands without any drop in efficiency.
BFT Consensus
Locus Chain employs a deterministic Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus for swift, irreversible transaction finality. Shards first verify transactions, then compile them into a World Block for global consistency. This model guarantees network integrity and high-speed settlement, making it ideal for applications demanding secure, rapid decision-making without sacrificing reliability.
PoS Consensus Committee selection
Locus Chain’s Proof-of-Stake mechanism chooses a BFT committee based on stake and contribution, rewarding engaged node operators. Higher staked participants have greater selection odds, and non-nodes can delegate assets for indirect rewards. This low-energy approach fosters collaboration, widens participation, and secures a balanced, sustainable blockchain, aligning incentives for growth.
Smart Contracts and Virtual Machine Environment (VME)
Locus Chain’s Virtual Machine Environment (VME) runs high-performance smart contracts on capable nodes, avoiding network overload. Multiple parallel VMs handle tasks collaboratively, recording transactions on the ledger for transparency. Ethereum compatibility broadens usage possibilities.
Ledger system of Directed Acyclic Graph
Account Wise Transaction Chain with Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
Dynamic Sharding
Locus Chain’s dynamic sharding automatically reconfigures shards based on transaction loads, ensuring stable performance and scalability—even when demand surges.
Verifiable Pruning
Locus Chain's Verifiable Pruning is about efficiently verifying a chunk of data without scanning all previous data chunks.
