Consensus Round
A consensus round is one attempt within a block height or decision instance to propose data, collect votes, and reach quorum. Network…
Glossary terms starting with C
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Consensus Rules
Consensus rules are mandatory validation and agreement conditions every compatible node applies identically when accepting transactions, blocks, votes, and state transitions. They…
Consensus Safety
Consensus safety is the guarantee that honest participants do not finalize conflicting ledger decisions while the protocol's stated fault assumptions hold. Safety…
Consensus State
Consensus state is the protocol data a node maintains to track agreement progress, participants, votes, rounds, checkpoints, and finalized decisions. This state…
Consensus Threshold
A consensus threshold is the minimum number, weight, or proportion of valid participants required to approve a protocol decision. The threshold must…
Consensus View
A consensus view is a protocol-defined leadership or voting phase that changes when participants cannot decide under the current coordinator. When a…
Consensus Vote
A consensus vote is an authenticated statement by a validator supporting a block, checkpoint, fork-choice target, or protocol decision at a specific…
Consensus-Critical Code
Consensus-critical code is any implementation logic whose differing result across nodes can change block validity, state, fork choice, or finality. Defects or…
Constantinople Fork
Constantinople was a 2019 Ethereum network upgrade that introduced efficiency improvements, new opcodes, and modified block rewards through coordinated consensus changes. The…
Consumer Payment
A consumer payment is a payment involving an individual acting mainly for personal rather than business purposes. It can cover retail purchases,…
Consumer Wallet
A consumer wallet is a wallet designed for individual users to hold credentials, view assets, make payments, receive transfers, or access digital…
Consumer-to-Business Crypto Payment
A consumer-to-business crypto payment is a transfer from an individual customer to a merchant or service provider using cryptocurrency or stablecoins. The…
Consumer-to-Business Stablecoin Payment
Consumer-to-Business Stablecoin Payment is a stablecoin payment from an individual consumer to a business for a purchase, bill, subscription, deposit, or other…
Container Security
Container Security is a security mechanism or control discipline that protects container images, registries, runtimes, orchestrators, hosts, secrets, and deployment pipelines throughout…
Content Security Policy (CSP)
Content Security Policy is a browser-enforced policy that restricts which resources a web page may load, execute, embed, or connect to. Content…
Content-Type Header
Content-Type Header is an HTTP representation header that identifies the media type and relevant parameters of the message body being sent. Content-Type…
Continuous Authentication
Continuous Authentication is a security mechanism or control discipline that repeatedly evaluates identity and session confidence using ongoing behavioral, device, environmental, and…
Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS)
Continuous Linked Settlement is the foreign-exchange settlement service operated by CLS Bank that reduces principal risk by settling eligible payment instructions on…
Contract Account
A contract account is a blockchain account controlled by deployed program code rather than directly by a conventional private key. Transactions or…
Contract Address
A contract address is the network-specific blockchain address assigned to deployed smart-contract code. Applications use it to call functions, identify token contracts,…
Contract Call
A contract call is an interaction with a smart contract function through a blockchain node or wallet provider. It can read state…
Contract Token Payment
Contract Token Payment is a payment made with a token implemented by a smart contract rather than with the blockchain network’s native…
Contract Transaction
A contract transaction is a blockchain transaction that deploys a smart contract or invokes contract code to read or change state. It…
Contract Verification
Contract Verification is the process of demonstrating that published smart contract source code and compilation settings correspond to the bytecode deployed at…