# BigchainDB and Byzantine Fault Tolerance

[BigchainDB Server](https://docs.bigchaindb.com/projects/server/en/latest/index.html)
uses [Tendermint](https://tendermint.com/)
for consensus and transaction replication,
and Tendermint is [Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance).