Overview

🔐 Consensus & Execution

🧠 Rocket Consensus

RocketFi is powered by RocketBFT, a custom-built consensus algorithm designed for high-performance trading. Similar to other proof-of-stake blockchains, blocks are produced by validators based on the amount of native token staked to each validator.

⚙️ Execution Architecture

The RocketFi state is composed of two key components:

  • RocketBFT: Handles margin and matching engine states. ✅ Fully decentralized—no reliance on off-chain order books. 🚀 Ensures a consistent transaction order via RocketBFT consensus.

  • Rocket Chain: An application based general-purpose execution layer compatible with smart contracts.

⏱️ High Latency Optimization

RocketFi’s consensus is optimized for high-latency environments, which are essential for handling complex financial instruments.

  • End-to-End Latency: Measured from request submission to committed response.

  • Performance Benchmarks (from co-located clients):

    • Median latency: 0.2 seconds

    • 99th percentile latency: 0.9 seconds

This low-latency performance enables:

  • Instant UI feedback for retail users.

📈 Throughput & Scalability

  • Current Throughput: ~200,000 orders per second on mainnet.

  • Bottleneck: Execution layer (not consensus or networking).

  • Scalability Potential: RocketFi’s consensus and networking stack can handle millions of orders/sec once execution is further optimized.

🔧 Execution improvements are planned as demand scales.

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