Outline
Ten parts, in reading order
The specification is one document split for reading. Each part stands on its own and links to the others where they touch. Read it as a single page if you would rather search or print the whole thing.
Overview
Protocol definition, operational incentives, and the three node classes.
Scope · Why join · Node classes 02Boundaries & governance
Isolation boundaries between private infrastructure and the public mesh, alongside decentralized governance.
Two networks · Governance 03Identity, discovery & transport
Cryptographic node identity, rendezvous discovery, DIDComm signaling, and wire transports.
Identity · Discovery · Control plane · Transports 04Replication
Gossip synchronization, event filtering rules, and integration with existing relay tooling.
Replication · Prior art · Ecosystem Bridges 05Grants & receipts
Published budget allocations, signed receipt chains, and bilateral accounting reconciliation.
Grants & receipts 06Reputation
The five-class deterministic severity ladder, sovereign subjective weighting, and adverse-only reporting.
Severity ladder · Trust weighting 07Compute market
Verifiable confidential compute execution, cryptographic attestations, and direct Lightning settlement.
Compute market 08Running a node
Privacy threat modeling, adversary analysis, operator manifests, and reference implementation requirements.
Privacy rules · Attack surface · Alpha contract · Implementation · Operator surface 09Distribution & conformance
Reproducible distribution channels, verification signatures, and test suite conformance.
Distribution · Conformance · Registration 10Open questions
Protocol parameters under active empirical evaluation during alpha testing.
Open questions