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Add RAFT/IBFT/QBFT consensus support to Quorum private network blockchains

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
blockchain, cli

Research direction

Start by locating the existing Quorum Clique support in the CLI and compare how its command-line options and genesis files are assembled. Add support for RAFT, IBFT, and QBFT, including the listed discovery or genesis changes, and verify that development environments for each consensus mechanism can be spun up.

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Description

Current support for Quorum only includes Clique consensus support. There are viable use cases of spinning up development environments on the other consensus mechanisms, for example, testing the consensus specific API calls etc.

The remaining work for the other consensus layers as follows:

  1. RAFT - Command line tweaks, might require to switch from bootnodes discovery to static nodes
  2. IBFT - Genesis file tweaks
  3. QBFT - Genesis file tweaks
Dominant language
Go
Stars
66
Forks
64
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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