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smart-byte: governance, burns and transfers between clusters, with vectors
smart-byte-state implements cluster_state.md:
- governance: Change and Proposal, electorates, the quorum, the time lock;
- burns: Burn and the retired record;
- exports: ExportStatement and Certificate;
- the import checks.

smart-byte-core: Transition::sign_export and the destination member. The
envelope compares frames within a cluster only.

smart-byte-lockstep: the committing nodes sign each committed frame's export
certificates. The certificates are built from a committing node's report,
never from a node whose state diverged.

state_vectors.json grows to 23 vectors (state-013 to state-023 new,
state-011 extended) and is regenerated in place; v1 is DRAFT. Every new check
has a vector that fails an implementation leaving it out. The README
documents the 14 new error classes, and the regeneration log records the
change.

crosscheck/verify_v1.py implements governance, burns, exports and imports
from the spec text. It reproduces every vector, 117 of them, both plain and
under -O.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 11:48:44 -04:00
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conformance smart-byte: governance, burns and transfers between clusters, with vectors 2026-10-01 11:48:44 -04:00
smart-byte-rs smart-byte: governance, burns and transfers between clusters, with vectors 2026-10-01 11:48:44 -04:00
spec smart-byte spec: governance, burns, and transfers between clusters 2026-10-01 11:10:54 -04:00
vocab vocab v1 SHACL shapes across sister standards (wave-23 #4/#5) 2026-06-02 18:55:56 -04:00
LICENSE Initial import — three open standards under one shelf 2026-05-23 07:58:09 -04:00
README.md Initial import — three open standards under one shelf 2026-05-23 07:58:09 -04:00
SECURITY.md Initial import — three open standards under one shelf 2026-05-23 07:58:09 -04:00
THREE_FACES.md Initial import — three open standards under one shelf 2026-05-23 07:58:09 -04:00

Smart Byte

A carrier for value. Settlement-agnostic, energy-attributed, no off switch.

The smart byte is not money — it is a vesicle (the cellular-biology sense): a content-addressed, signed envelope carrying exactly five things — identity (the blake3 hash of its origin attestation), provenance (the issuer's signed birth certificate), an ownership chain (signature-bound transitions), cargo (whatever value it represents — USD, joules, compute-hours, votes, attestations, claims; the substrate is agnostic), and a two-part joule cost (measured + estimated, cumulative over its life). Consensus is lockstep deterministic simulation with BFT supermajority commit; the substrate scales by federating many bounded clusters, not by growing one. It is TCP/IP for value: an open, application-agnostic carrier that any matching, clearing, or trust-signaling layer can build on.

The substrate is intentionally ownerless: no protocol-level token, permissive licensing on the spec text and reference code, conformance test vectors so any implementer can verify canonicity without a trust relationship with the authors. The protocol's identity lives in its conformance vectors and content-addressing, not in any brand. Transaction Science is one steward — it publishes the spec, ships a reference implementation, and operates commercial services around the substrate — not its proprietor.

Contents

  • spec/treatise_v1_parts_I_II_III_combined.md — Smart Byte Substrate: A Treatise (Parts I–III: the foundation, the substrate architecture, the security engineering; Parts IV–VII previewed)
  • strategic_context.docx — The Strategic Context: Why the Substrate Makes Sense in 2026
  • SECURITY.md — the working security-engineering summary: it's a digital system on the internet, secured the way digital systems on the internet are secured (conservative cryptography, encrypted transports, reproducible multiply-reviewed builds, standard layer-2 key custody, standard availability engineering, textbook BFT consensus) plus a handful of new compositions of those proven parts. Plus the vulnerability-reporting process.

Status

Treatise v1.0 (May 2026). The conformance specification (byte-level wire formats) and the reference implementation referenced in the treatise as "v0.3" are to be brought into this repository.

  • EOC (../eoc/) — the energy-optimized AI compute substrate; the smart byte's energy attribution depends on an honest joules-per-task substrate.
  • Settlement (settlement.science) — the flagship regulated financial institution running on the substrate as an issuer and consumer of smart bytes.