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The declared MSRV had drifted into three tiers — 1.85, 1.96, and one 1.96.0 — none of them the compiler the code is actually built and pinned against (now 1.97.1, rust-toolchain.toml). Raising the floor to 1.97 makes the support commitment honest: it states the oldest compiler these standards are actually verified on, rather than a floor no CI ever exercises. This is the deliberate MSRV bump that the 1.97.1 toolchain PR explicitly left out, because raising a library's floor is a support-policy decision, not an automatic consequence of moving a build box. Done here as its own change, on request. 26 workspace manifests, minor-version precision to match the repo's dominant style. sandbox-rs (was 1.85) and eoc-rs (was 1.96) build + test clean under the pin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]> |
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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 2026SECURITY.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.
Related
- 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.