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Node Design & Architecture

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Services

  • sova-reth: Modified EVM execution client where custom precompiles are used to interact with the Bitcoin node.

  • lighthouse: Off the shelf PoS consensus client.

  • sentinel: Storage database used for implementing double spend protection in the validators.

  • network-utxos: Service which Tracks network spendable UTXOs and provides an API to sova-reth to querying.

  • Signing Service API: A gateway for enabling network signing capabilities.

  • Bitcoin Core: All validators run an instance of bitcoin core. This is necessary for broadcasting BTC transactions and checking transaction finality.

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Broadcast Transaction Flow

https://github.com/SovaNetwork/sova-reth
https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse
https://github.com/SovaNetwork/sova-sentinel
https://github.com/SovaNetwork/utxo-tracing
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin