When a system shutdown occurs, it can be as a result of a number of factors. In designing Couchain, we envisaged that the circumstances that lead to a shutdown can be intentional, accidental or malicious.

An intentional shutdown of a blockchain might arise if the platform detects the existence of nodes that are undergoing malicious compromise on a scale that could put the entire network a risk. For example, the EOS blockchain was shut down recently based on the recognition that a compromise of the blockchain was ongoing as a result of a detectable bug.

An accidental shutdown of a blockchain can occur if there is a built-in mechanism that triggers such to prevent a 51 percent takeover of the blockchain. While this might seem more theoretical than operational, it is possible to have this arrangement in place if there is a provision made in the design and coding of the blockchain.

A malicious shutdown of a blockchain can occur if the platform uses a design and algorithm that is easy to breach. In most cases, what obtains is that some nodes are disturbed by hackers in order to access a platform. If the built-in mechanisms preventing for cloning of access and transaction credentials are poor, a malicious shutdown can ocur.

Couchain and Processing Capacity

In implementing the Neural Consensus Algorithm, Couchain sets its operational backbone in such a standpoint that inherently prevents denial-of-service attack, Nodes within the system are optimized to expand in processing size as the demands for blockchain resources expand in a transaction. The provided capacity is not stretched –out by transaction demands in view of the off-chain and on-chain duality that is embedded in the computational processes of the blockchain.

Couchain blockchain has a configuration that thrives on optimizing the constituent nodes in order to provide an operational boost. The mechanism for ensuring that this outcome is realizable is two-fold.

Firstly, Couchain cannot experience the transaction slowdown associated with some blockchains. For example, the Ethereum blockchain records slow processing times whenever there is an initial coin offering that necessitates high network activity.

For couchain, transactional slowdowns are avoided as a result of the data sharding mechanism. In this wise, data is distributed on the network between the constituent nodes as transactions arise.

A node that receives a transaction passes such to the network, and the processing mechanism ensures that each transaction is broken up into logical units that can be conveniently processed by the nodes.

Since there is a multichain approach on the Couchain blockchain, processing of transactions proceed on side chains, multiple chains, and even on parallel chains. The avoidance of a single chain approach that bogs down the Bitcoin blockchain and the Ethereum platform is a distinctive innovation that Couchain thrives on.

Couchain’s Operational Safeguards

When a blockchain or network comes under attack, suffers a loss of capacity or witnesses some areas of inefficiency, its utility can be called to question.

Couchain looks at this area of concern and provides an answer with its adoption of High Availability. The idea of High Availability has its roots in database management as seen in SQL models. Essentially, it is a cluster-type efficiency that is operational when nodes within a network are knocked out.

On Couchain, it is proven that the network will remain operational when less than 51 percent of the nodes are knocked out, inoperable or inefficient for any known or accidental reasons.

In essence, the threshold of system operationalization within the ecosystem is optimized to allow for there to be a zero chance of a denial -of- service to occur. So, in a B, C, D, E, & F scenario, if D becomes challenged, the system re-calibrates to sustain processing of transactions. Even when E & F goes out, the re-alignment of the blockchain will occur.

The strong point of Couchain needs to be seen in its design and operational methodology. Transactions that are fed into the network do not receive a centralized attention, As they arise, they are shifted to the active nodes in order to receive attention.

In view of the multiplicity of nodes on the blockchain, inefficient nodes can be identified on a real-time basis. The undisturbed cluster is then optimized by reorganizing data in a rather autonomous manner within the platform. No time lapse or system glitch will be felt as this occurs.

The ecosystem will recalibrate itself as the disturbed nodes are reactivated and fed into the platform again. An advantage of the synchronization that occurs within Couchain is that the system has a built-in capacity to make use of its resources in order to reach an updated equilibrium a each turn.

While single chain platforms cannot be trusted to run efficiently when up to 30 percent nodal malfunction occurs, Couchain scales this downside with its multiple chain algorithms.

Access layers

The access layers on Couchain are optimized in a manner that shuts out an intruder. A justified basis for sheltering the platform from unwanted access or intrusion shows up in the operative and security layers of the blockchain.

Couchain has a server complied code that governs access to the blockchain and specifies the basis for credentials and authorization. In the same light, the Cluster asymmetric key authenticator lines up with the challenge seed as well as the unique server hash code certificate These lines of proof have to show a defined regularity with the transaction data for there to be a uniformity for access to the network.

So, the form of container access credentials is such that is pre-defined and updated in a compilation threshold. The use of a random password is such that makes it impossible to clone or recreate outside of the authorization container and preset input keys.

By ensuring that the access layers are not easily guessed or accessible to anyone without adhering to the required parameters from access request to transaction processing, a contrived intrusion has no chance of success on the Couchain platform.

Couchain is a fourth generation blockchain designed to make it possible for corporations and big business to leverage on its distinctive features for operational efficiency.