/Architecture & Consensus

Cookie Chain inherits the Solana Virtual Machine architecture. Core Solana primitives are available for developers on Cookie Chain.

# Proof of History (PoH)

A verifiable delay function acts as a cryptographic clock and orders events before consensus runs.

# Tower BFT

A PoH-optimized PBFT variant lets validators vote on the PoH sequence, reducing messaging overhead and supporting sub-second finality.

# Turbine, Gulf Stream, Sealevel, Pipelining

• Turbine: block propagation via randomized shredding.
• Gulf Stream: mempool-less transaction forwarding directly to the upcoming leader.
• Sealevel: parallel program execution across CPU cores.
• Pipelining: staged transaction validation for steady throughput.

# Block time & finality

• Target block time: ~80-140 ms
• Finality is sub-second under normal conditions.
• Consensus is produced by an expanding set of independent validators.