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Protocols
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This chapter goes into full detail about each of the subprotocols that make up
Polkadot. It focuses largely on end-to-end mechanics and the properties
relevant at this layer; for point-to-point mechanics see :doc:`networking`.

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   :glob:
   :maxdepth: 1

   NPoS
   block-production
   finality
   Availability_and_Validity
   XCMP