The first part of sp-consensus-babe
sp stands for substrate primitives, meaning packages that usually includes elements providing the foundational structures and functionalities.
In this case, sp-consensus-babe
is a crate that is used by the BABE pallet.
You might use BABE pallet when you want to include such a pallet in your runtime (blockchain) because you want your blockchain to produce blocks following the BABE block production mechanism.
You might use primitives from sp-consensus-babe
in a context where you are building a crate or some code, and you might need the primitives existing there. Just including it in the Cargo.toml
file, as others do, should be enough.