Core Protocols

$XRD is the native token of the Radix network . As a native asset , XRD is a first-class resource managed by the Radix Engine — not a smart contract t…

The application layer is the topmost layer of the Radix Engine stack — where developer-authored Scrypto blueprints, packages, and components actually…

Cerberus is Radix's novel Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus protocol. Its key innovation is braided parallelism : instead of running a single chain o…

The kernel is the lowest layer of the Radix Engine. It manages substates (units of persistent state), actors (entities that own substates), invocation…

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are digital assets that represent unique items like artwork, collectibles, and in-game items. On Radix, NFTs are core primi…

Personas is a digital identity management feature introduced by Radix as part of its Q2 2023 network upgrade to Babylon . It represents a significant…

Radix Connect is a framework designed to facilitate seamless interactions between mobile wallets and desktop browsers, specifically tailored for decen…

The Radix Core API provides low-level access to Radix nodes for transaction submission, state queries, and network monitoring. It's primarily used by…

The Radix Engine is the execution environment that runs all Scrypto smart contracts on Radix. Unlike the EVM (which is a general-purpose virtual machi…

The Radix Gateway API is the primary developer interface for building dApps on Radix. It indexes the ledger and provides REST endpoints for querying a…

The Radix Wallet is a mobile-first cryptocurrency wallet built by RDX Works , developed to manage $XRD and other tokens on the Radix network . The wal…

Scrypto is Radix's smart contract programming language. Built on Rust, it implements asset-oriented programming where tokens and NFTs are native primi…

On Radix, every account is a smart account — a programmable component on the ledger with configurable access rules , deposit preferences, and recovery…

The system layer implements the engine's high-level abstractions — objects, blueprints, packages, modules (Metadata, Royalty, Role Assignment), and th…

Transaction manifests are Radix's instruction format for describing what a transaction should do. Unlike EVM transactions that encode function calls a…

Vamos is a novel database persistence layer developed by Dan Hughes , designed to provide better performance than traditional databases like LevelDB,…

The VM layer of the Radix Engine executes blueprint code. Two virtual machines coexist: the Scrypto VM, which runs developer-authored WebAssembly comp…