Research

Active research efforts driving the Radix roadmap — Xi’an, Hyperscale, MFA Security Shield, RAC, and academic papers behind them.

The following 8 pages are in Research.

Cassandra

Cassandra [ /kəˈsændrə/ ] was a research project spearheaded by Dan Hughes to address two critical issues that could arise in a sharded network, speci…

Cerberus Whitepaper & Academic Validation

The Cerberus whitepaper presents the formal specification of the Cerberus consensus protocol. Originally published as a preprint in 2020, it was peer-…

Consensus Evolution at Radix

Radix's consensus mechanism has evolved through multiple generations, each building on lessons learned: Dan Hughes ' earliest experiments with distrib…

eMunie

eMunie [ /‘i ˈmʌni/ ] was the name given to Dan Hughes ’ distributed ledger project prior to the launch of Ethereum (~2013).

hyperscale-rs

hyperscale-rs is a community-built Rust implementation of the Hyperscale consensus protocol for the Radix DLT ecosystem, and the leading candidate to…

Hyperscale: 500K TPS Public Test

In January 2026, the Radix Foundation completed the final public Hyperscale test, demonstrating that its Hyperscale reference implementation could sus…

Radix Economic Model

The Radix economic model is the set of rules that decide where XRD comes from and where it goes. There are only three flows, and each obeys a differen…

Tempo (Consensus Mechanism)

Tempo [ /ˈtɛmˌpoʊ/ ] is a consensus protocol developed as the fifth iteration of Radix. First proposed in 2017 , Tempo pioneered innovations such as l…