Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Consensus”
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Validators, Staking, and the Infrastructure Layer of DeFi
Before any decentralized exchange can execute a trade or any lending protocol can process a withdrawal, a more fundamental layer of the system must function correctly: the consensus mechanism that validates transactions and maintains the integrity of the blockchain. This is the infrastructure on which all defi activity runs, and the participants who operate it — miners and validators — are in many respects the most essential actors in the ecosystem.