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The job consensus layer of the IC is to order transaction requests so that all replicas in a subnet will process
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Please see [https://internetcomputer.org/how-it-works/consensus/ How Consensus Layer works]
transaction requests in the same order.
 
There are many protocols in the literature for this problem.
 
The IC uses a new consensus protocol, which is described here at a high level.
 
For more details, see the paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1330 (in particular, Protocol ICC1 in that paper).
 

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