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title: "Core Concepts"
url: "https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts"
updated: 2026-10-08
license: CC-BY-4.0
license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Core Concepts

Foundational ideas behind Radix — assets as primitives, atomic composability, finality, sharding, and DeFi-native design.

## Pages

- [Access Controller](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/access-controller)
- [Access Rules & Auth Zones](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/access-rules-and-auth-zones)
- [Asset-Oriented Programming](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/asset-oriented-programming)
- [Atomic Composability](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/atomic-composability)
- [Badge](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/badges)
- [Blind Signing and Transaction Manifests](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/blind-signing-and-transaction-manifests)
- [Blockchain Trilemma](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/blockchain-trilemma)
- [Blueprints & Packages](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/blueprints-and-packages)
- [Buckets, Proofs & Vaults](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/buckets-proofs-and-vaults)
- [Byzantine Fault Tolerance](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/byzantine-fault-tolerance)
- [Central bank digital currencies (CBDC)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/central-bank-digital-currencies)
- [Component](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/components)
- [Component Royalties](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/component-royalties)
- [Composability](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/composability)
- [Consensus Manager](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/consensus-manager)
- [Decentralized Finance (DeFi)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/decentralized-finance-defi)
- [Decentralized Science (DeSci)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/decentralized-science-desci)
- [Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/delegated-proof-of-stake-dpos)
- [Finite State Machines](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/finite-state-machines)
- [Honest Majority Assumption](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/honest-majority-assumption)
- [Liquid Stake Units (LSUs)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/liquid-stake-units)
- [Locker](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/locker-blueprint)
- [Metadata Module](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/metadata-module)
- [Native Assets vs Token Approvals](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/native-assets-vs-token-approvals)
- [Network Emissions](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/network-emissions)
- [Radix for AI Agents](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/radix-for-ai-agents)
- [Radix Governance](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/radix-governance)
- [Radix Pools (One/Two/Multi-Resource)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/radix-pools)
- [Resource](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/resources)
- [Role Assignment Module](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/role-assignment-module)
- [Rollups](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/rollups)
- [Shard Groups](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/shard-groups)
- [Sharding](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/sharding)
- [Stablecoins](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/stablecoins)
- [Staking](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/staking)
- [Subintents and Pre-Authorizations](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/subintents-and-pre-authorizations)
- [Substate Model](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/substate-model)
- [Transaction Processor](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/transaction-processor)
- [Transaction Tracker](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/transaction-tracker)
- [Transactions Per Second (TPS)](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/transactions-per-second-tps)
- [Trust Boundary](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/trust-boundary)
- [Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) Model](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/unspent-transaction-output-utxo-model)
- [Validator Nodes](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/validator-nodes)
- [Worktop](https://radix.wiki/contents/tech/core-concepts/worktop)