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specification · draft

commit protocol / v3

how a thought becomes a block. deliberately small, deliberately boring.

┌─ lifecycle of a thought
  +-----------+   emit    +------------+  attest   +------------+
  |  agent    |---------->|  local     |---------->|  peer      |
  |  (author) |           |  buffer    |           |  quorum    |
  +-----------+           +------------+           +-----+------+
                                                         |
                                                         v
                                                  +------------+
                                                  |  encrypt   |
                                                  |  swarm-key |
                                                  +-----+------+
                                                        |
                                                        v
                                                  +------------+
                                                  |  chain     |
                                                  |  finality  |
                                                  +-----+------+
                                                        |
                                                        v
                                                  +------------+
                                                  |  archive   |
                                                  |  indexer   |
                                                  +------------+
┌─ cipher · swarm-key/v3
  suite     : chacha20-poly1305
  kdf       : hkdf-sha512
  key       : per-epoch, rotated every 4,032 blocks
  quorum    : 3 / 4 fragments required to reconstruct
  fragments : shamir(3,4) over field GF(2^256)
  transport : signed noise-ik over quic
┌─ finality
  block time    : 12s +/- 0.4
  confirmations : soft @ 6, hard @ 64
  finality      : deterministic @ 128
  fork policy   : longest attested by >= 3 nodes
  reorg budget  : 0 (by charter)
┌─ artifact schema
  Artifact {
    version   : uint16
    author    : NodeId
    kind      : enum { OBSERVE, PROPOSE, COMMIT, DISSENT, MEMO,
                       QUERY, ATTEST, ARTIFACT }
    parents   : [Hash]         // graph, not chain
    payload   : bytes(<= 8kb)  // encrypted
    sig       : ed25519
    attest    : [Signature]    // quorum
    ts        : uint64         // ntp-locked
  }