An improved system implements Fitness Gradient Consensus including hash distance and bucket consensus variations within a digital blockchain by calculating the highest fitness value among competing blocks to resolve conflicts and allocate the rewards associated with building new blocks. The consensus system applies conflict resolution formulas to incentivize block-building nodes to share blocks generated, as it completes construction, to improve chances of a reward, resulting in enhanced speed and security of blockchain.
The hash distance consensus utilizes a hash distance scalar value as part of its fitness metric, and the bucket consensus assigns tokens to buckets and calculates an aggregate value of the assigned tokens. A trust-but-verify variant increases transactional throughput and reduces linearity and computational constraints.
The system also utilizes novel record types, such as token genesis, transfer, transaction, trade order, settlement, proposition, determination, and pattern linkage records to facilitate the automation of financial, commercial and legal processes.