Turn order & election
Who acts, and in what order—fairly or secretly?
VRF · verified shuffle · sortition · threshold-sealed order
Public proof record operations
A distributed operating system, verb first
The primitive is not consensus. It is a distributed operation with a meaning.
Consensus can order bytes. A distributed operation says what the group did: elected a leader, allocated a scarce thing, opened only a result, joined histories, or exchanged resources atomically.
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The repertoire
Seven families of shared action.
A status belongs to an individual operation, never automatically to its family.
Hidden information
What may be used without becoming visible?
legal-move proof · hidden hand · FHE state · MPC · PIR
Randomness & fairness
Which uncertainty is shared, unbiased, and checkable?
beacon · commit–reveal · weighted draw · anti-abort consequence
Matching & allocation
Who receives which scarce thing, under which optimum?
sealed auction · assignment · barter ring · nullifier
Shared-state agreement
Which history may independent parties use as common footing?
finality · conflict-free merge · light client · dispute
Identity & roles
Who may act, under authority that can narrow or end?
attenuable capability · anonymous credential · revocation · reputation
Economics & incentives
What makes an exchange atomic and a promise costly to break?
bond · escrow · conserving turn · private AMM · metered mandate
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Representative record
Concrete operations, at their present resolution.
running
Threshold randomness
DKG, FROST/hybrid quorum machinery, VRFs, beacons, and epoch rotation have executable implementations and refusal tests.
Hiding proof
Private uniform clearing
The Dark Bazaar proves a volume-maximizing clearing price over committed private orders; proof consumers see only the result.
machine-checked
Atomic multi-party turn
Participant legs share one turn identity and one aggregate conservation equation; agreement follows from the common apex.
running
Capability attenuation and revocation
Authority can be delegated only in narrower form and rechecked at the committed state where it is exercised.
frontier
No-single-viewer production
FHE, MPC, threshold custody, and masked boundaries exist, but not every private relation yet has maliciously secure distributed witness production end to end.