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Algorand Specifications

A Ledger (LL) is a sequence of states which comprise the common information established by some instantiation of the Algorand protocol.

A Ledger is identified by a string called the genesis identifier, as well as a genesis hash that cryptographically commits to the starting state of the Ledger.

Each state consists of the following components:

• The round of the state, which indexes into the Ledger’s sequence of states.

• The genesis identifier and genesis hash, which identify the Ledger to which the state belongs.

• The current protocol version and the upgrade state.

• A timestamp, which is informational and identifies when the state was first proposed.

• A seed, which is a source of randomness used to establish consensus on the next state.

• The current reward state, which describes the policy at which incentives are distributed to participants.

• The current account state, which holds account balances and participation keys for all stakeholding addresses.

  • One component of this state is the transaction tail, which caches the transaction sets (see below) in the last TxTailmaxTxTailmax blocks.

• The current box state, which holds mappings from (AppIDAppID, BoxIDBoxID) tuples to box contents of arbitrary bytes.