# scp The Bantu Consensus Protocol (SCP) provides a way to reach consensus without relying on a closed system to accurately record financial transactions. SCP has a set of provable safety properties that optimize for safety over liveness—in the event of partition or misbehaving nodes, it halts progress of the network until consensus can be reached. SCP simultaneously enjoys four key properties: decentralized control, low latency, flexible trust, and asymptotic security. A few ways to explore SCP: * Start out with the peer-reviewed [paper in SOSP 2019](https://www.stellar.org/papers/fast-and-secure-global-payments-with-stellar) on Bantu for a technical overview. * To learn all about the Bantu Consensus Protocol, read the original [white paper](https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol). * A [Simplified SCP](http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/blog/simplified-scp.html) description is shorter and easier to read than the full whitepaper. * If you are implementing SCP, see the [internet draft](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mazieres-dinrg-scp/) and send questions and feedback to the [DIN mailing list](https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/Din). * View or contribute to the code in [bantu-core](https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core). * If white papers aren't your thing, here's a [technical summary](https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-359e9eb3e949). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://developers.docs.bantufoundation.org/glossary/scp.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.