Nodes

Consensus is done via specialised nodes meant for various tiers of stakeholders.

Consensus is done via specialised nodes meant for various tiers of stakeholders, allowing them to take part and be involved in the ecosystem and/or provide services. The nodes allow regulators and regulated entities the ability to manage and monitor on chain actions, such as freezing and refunding assets.

There are 4 major types of nodes.

1. Watchtowers - the highest level of nodes focused on risk and incident mitigation, strategic development and excess functionality. They supervise, oversee activities, mitigate issues and incidents, facilitate development and strategic decisions. These nodes are Proof of Authority (PoA): available only to regulators or top tier market leaders (who must be regulated/licensed).

2. Institutional - feature enablers for vendors and feature providers. These nodes are major gatekeepers as well as the economical pillars of the chain. They are like licenses to operate within the ecosystem. Important note, that they are upgradable, which means, that node holders can boost performance, unlock features and increase throughputs of their nodes. These nodes are Proof of Stake (PoS): if a business would like to become a bridge, on/off ramp or anything alike, they must commit assets to proof their credibility and intentions.

3. Developers - nodes for developers and development studios which mostly operate as supervisors (AI or human based) and RPC for smart contract deployment and/or chain development. These nodes are PoS and Proof of Work (PoW): a segment of Institutional nodes is meant for developers, and they both need to provide stake of assets and are incentivised to actively be involved in the development.

4. Liberation - nodes meant for individual, private use, which are designed to be operational within smartphone as an app. These nodes are used to "sign", "validate", "approve" transactions and decisions of higher tier nodes, and enable/apply some ZK features to the data and transactions of individual users, distributing computing power across multiple devices and lowering impact on the chain performance. These nodes are PoW: which use computing power of mobile devices to vote, vouch for some strategic activity of the net, as well as enable/disable or apply ZK related and similar features to selected transactions and functions.