Core Protocolturbine
Turbine
Solana's block propagation protocol inspired by BitTorrent. Instead of the leader sending a full block to every validator, Turbine organizes validators into a layered tree and propagates shreds through successive tiers. Each node forwards shreds to a small fanout set, reducing the leader's bandwidth requirement from O(n) to O(log n).
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3Core Protocol
Shred
The smallest unit of block data propagated through the network via Turbine. Blocks are split into shreds of up to 1,228...
Core Protocol
Block Propagation
The process of distributing a newly produced block from the leader to all validators in the cluster. Solana uses Turbine...
Core Protocol
Erasure Coding
A Reed-Solomon error-correction scheme applied to shreds during block propagation. The leader encodes each batch of 32 d...