## tendermint

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### tl; dr

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* consensus protocol for ordering events in a distributed network under adversarial conditions (aka byzantine fault tolerant consenus, or atomic broadcast).
* tendermint consists of two technical components: a blockchain consensus engine and a generic application interface, and works even if up to 1/3 of machines fail in arbitrary ways.
* tendermint core (the consensus engine) performs BFT state machine replication (SMR) for arbitrary deterministic, finite state machines.
* the application interface (abci) enables the transactions to be processed in any programming language.

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### cool resources

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* **[tendermint docs](https://docs.tendermint.com/)**
* **[tenderming abci](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/v0.34.x/abci)**
* **[the latest gossip on BFT consensus, e. buchman et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938)**
* **[cometbft (a distributed byzantine fault-tolerant derterministic state machine replication engine)](https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft)**