Core Concepts

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

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Shard Groups

Shard groups [ /ʃɑrd grups/ ] or Validator Sets on Radix are groups of validators responsible for storing and validating the ledger state on subsets o…

Sharding

Sharding [ /ˈʃɑːdɪŋ/ ] is a method of partitioning a database horizontally across separate servers to improve scalability, performance and data availa…

Stablecoins

A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value, most commonly by targeting a fixed exchange rate – a peg – against a reference a…

Staking

Staking is a crucial mechanism in many cryptocurrency systems, particularly those using Proof of Stake (PoS) or Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consen…

Subintents and Pre-Authorizations

Pre-authorizations – the user-facing name for subintents – allow "a partial transaction to be authorized by one actor such that it can then become a p…

Substate Model

The Substate Model is Radix's approach to storing and managing on-ledger state. Rather than using a global account-based model ( Ethereum ) or UTXOs (…