US Patent 12074768 Dynamic configuration of consensus-based network

The disclosed technique includes establishing consensus among devices to share performance metrics data of those devices. An example of the devices includes endpoint devices that are owned or managed by a common entity. The devices form a consensus-based network. The devices are each operable to independently connect to an external network. A manager device of the devices dynamically selects which of the devices will operate like a network access device to route traffic between the devices and the external network. The network access device is selected by the manager device based on the performance metrics data to optimize a global performance metric of the consensus-based network.