The goal of Aurora is to link all of the above sectors with an encompassing blockchain that is powered by a smart contract platform which will allow for the development of the new class of decentralized applications. At the same time, the existing blockchains are seen as plagued by the issues that the platform plans to resolve.

Aurora sees blockchain as a platform for cross-sectoral cooperation among diverse industries. This will be achieved by allowing the companies to integrate their own applications and rules into the blockchain and use them to establish key links with businesses in other industries. The platform will develop smart contracts with robust underlying support and tools in order to make them useful for diverse industries. The public chain is seen as the major source of support in an effort to make smart contracts faster to execute. Also, Aurora plans to speed up the processing time of transactions by merging the existing technologies with the new ones.

Aurora wants to offer blockchain architecture which is fully upgradeable and aims to automate the entire process in the long run. This will be achieved with the help of technologies such as the automated upgrade of block heights and the implementation will make the ecosystem development much faster but will also bring down the cost of data storage capacities.

Having identified the issues before the project was launched; the team deployed multiple solutions which include both known technologies as well as other ones. Some of them include the Delegated proof of Stake consensus mechanism, Byzantine Fault tolerance, P2P Stereo-net, intelligent application isolation, smart contract development platform, multi-asset offering, multi-chain parallel operation and cluster grouping.

The delegated proof-of-stake mechanism is implemented on the Aurora platform as a technology which is supposed to deliver the governance model resembling the one of a representative democracy. DPoS allows everyone who holds the Aurora tokens to use their balance as a stake in voting for delegates. The stake is what determines the symbolic weight of one’s vote which means that those who invest more in the system will have more to say in the matters related to the chain. The delegates who do not own huge stakes can compete with each other if they want to collect votes and get into the process. This is supposed to promote decentralization in addition to enforcing ‘’digital democracy.’’

With aurora, the system features a threshold by which the account can apply for the candidacy of an AOA proxy and the required balance is set at more than 5 million AOA tokens. The voting rights for proxy candidacy are extended to everyone who holds enough balance of the AOA token. When a proxy candidate’s balance goes below the required amount, the candidacy is rejected. In the meantime, the highest ranking 101 candidates that have secured the most votes will be designated as proxy nodes in charge of managing transactions. In order to ensure a democratic outcome, each address can vote for each candidate provided that the maximum quota of 101 votes has been reached.

The implementation of the DPoS system on the Aurora is seen as the perfect tool which is supposed to bring about both higher individual transactions speeds and an increased number of processed transactions per second. The TPS value is now at 2000 with the commission amounting to 0.0001 AOA.

There is also the promise of higher security without the issues that the Proof-of-Work and standard proof-of-stake models are facing these days. This model also wants to become suitable for running numerous applications with high levels of scalability which is in correlation with the goal of the asset to establish itself as a platform for easy development of further applications. In addition, the developers of the project decided to combine their DPOS mechanism with the Byzantine Fault Tolerance system in order to upgrade the scalability of the platform but to also reduce the risks of unwanted forks which can take place with these kinds of mechanisms.

The aurora team combined the DPoS with BFT and this is supposed to bring more benefits such as equitable reward distribution. In theory, the users will become more incentivized to elect the delegates who offer the best rewards by spreading the reward benefits evenly.

It will also become easier to detect malicious activities because the voters can identify nefarious actions in real-time and can use their votes to remove the undesirable delegates from the system. In the same time, the delegates will become aware of the potential to be voted out and lose their funds and reputation in the process.

The use of this algorithm is associated with less energy consumption and compared to the PoW there is no need for harsh competition for the addition of new blocks.