Technical Concepts

This guide is intended for exchanges and integrators to understand how Babylon works in order to prepare an integration ready for Radix’s mainnet.

This guide gives a broad overview of the Radix technical landscape at Babylon, but its integration guidance is focused towards constructing and tracking fungible transfers to and from accounts.

Index

• Introduction to Radix at Babylon
• Babylon Technical Concepts
  • Infrastructure and APIs
  • Consensus, Ledger Forks, Blocks, and Trust chains
  • Curves, Keys, Signatures and Hashing
  • Addresses
  • The State Model - Introduction
  • The State Model - Advanced
  • The Native Token - XRD
  • Transactions
  • Getting test XRD and paying fees from the Faucet
  • Networks and Dashboard links
  • Key developer links and version
  • Network Upgrades once live
  • DApps, Dashboards and Wallets
• Recommended approach to Babylon Integration
  • Infrastructure set-up
  • Development set-up for developing an integration
  • Integration: LTS Core API
  • Integration: LTS Toolkit
  • Detecting deposits from different users
  • Worked example 1: Transfer transaction submission flow
  • Worked example 2: Tracking deposits to any account
  • Worked example 3: Tracking deposits to specific account
  • Worked example 4: Node status and monitoring
• Integrations with the historic Olympia ledger
  • Changes in Babylon from Olympia
  • Sourcing data from Olympia
  • Olympia to Babylon migration, address mapping and reconciliation
• FAQs