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 ## tendermint
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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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+### references
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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)**