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How to check a ballot is valid

A node must validate the ballot with transactions from proposer(Please refer to How the consensus protocol works). This is because only valid ballot must be agreed and confirmed.

Ballot Structure

When a ballot is made by the proposer, it has valid transactions.

Received Ballot Validation

A ballot is valid if all transactions are passed the validation check by itself.

Transaction Validation

A transaction is valid if,

  1. it has valid checkpoint,
  2. the source account has enough balance to pay for the transaction and
  3. it's Operations are valid