White paper
Motivation
Decentralization is a key aspect of blockchain technology and one of the most prominent forces of its innovation. Our goal is to gradually increase the decentralization of Sky Mavis's products.
At launch, Ronin used Proof of Authority (PoA) as its consensus protocol. In PoA systems, transactions and blocks are validated by approved accounts known as validators. The PoA protocol, however, is often criticized for being less decentralized than Proof of Stake (PoS) and Proof of Work (PoW).
As the next step toward decentralization, we integrated the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) features such as delegation and validator selection, while retaining an element of PoA.