The invention provides a cross-chain 
consensus architecture and method for treating a chain with a chain, wherein the cross-chain 
consensus architecture comprises a supervision module, a communication module, a data module and a reward and punishment module; the supervision module is used for supervising a network, the communication module is used for data communication, the data module is used for 
data management and control, and the reward and punishment module is used for executing reward and punishment measures. The data module is in 
data connection with the supervision module through the communication module, and the reward and punishment module is in 
data connection with the monitoring module through the communication module. According to the invention, three functional requirements in total in two aspects of a chain control chain supervision mode can be supported, namely, the supervision block 
chain network is supported to acquire data of the supervised 
chain network, the supervised 
chain network is supported to execute excitation measures given by the supervision block chain network, and the supervised chain network is supported to execute punishment measures given by the supervision block chain network; therefore, a core solution of the vacancy of the chain supervision field is filled, the 
communication complexity is relatively low, and the safety, the expansibility and the efficiency are ensured.