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  1. Autonomys Network

Terminology

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$AI3

The 's native utility token needed to interact with our Ecosystem. $AI3—formerly tSSC (Testnet Subspace Credits) / ATC (Auto Coin)—incentivizes the healthy operation of the network via rewards and transaction fees. $AI3 is divisible up to 18 decimal places to allow for microtransactions.

Shannon

The smallest unit of , equal to 10−1810^{-18}10−18$AI3 (0.000000000000000001 $AI3). Named after Claude Shannon, a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory". Shannon's work was central to the rise of digital computing and laid the foundations for the information age.

Decentralized, human-centric, agentic artificial intelligence.

Hyper-scalable decentralized AI (deAI) encompassing high-throughput permanent , data availability and access, and —all the essential components to and deploy secure super dApps (AI-powered dApps) and advanced on-chain agents.

Autonomys' product suite, including the , and for developers, and , and the for and .

Blockchain

History

State

Client

Appchain

Epoch

Archiving

Raw Record

Record

Archived History

Segment

1. Recorded History Segment

2. Archived History Segment

Commitment

Segment Header

Witness

(Re)Plotting

Piece

Sector

Plot

Farming

Reconstruction

Leader Operator

An ordered, record of blockchain blocks.

The current live status of all data stored on the blockchain (including wallet balances, smart contract code, etc.); the result of executing transactions.

A user interacting with the through a light client such as or another front-end application. Clients can submit transactions and query the , but don't run a .

The 's () blockchain for consensus between . Consensus is decoupled from more computationally-intensive transaction , meaning is lightweight and accessible, and the is quick-to-sync.

Decoupled execution separates (handled by ) from computation (handled by )⁠, allowing for independent scaling of transaction throughput and storage. DecEx is implemented through .

Modular environments or with shared security and data availability via ' layer and . Domains support any form of computation or state transition framework, including EVM and WASM. Each domain has its own configurable runtime and gossip network (domain subnet). are incentivized to maintain domains with transaction/execution fees. Domains are conceptually similar to Ethereum rollups, but are integrated into the core protocol for horizontal scalability⁠⁠​⁠.

An application-specific blockchain leveraging the for consensus and storage. Appchains, or chains, are customized to the needs of a specific application or use-case.

A block interval between each allocation readjustment on a . stakes are fixed for the duration of the domain epoch at its start. The stake distribution is adjusted at the end of each epoch based on new stake deposits, withdrawal requests, and slashing events.

Distributed storage network composed of that have of and serve them to . The DSN handles data storage, retrieval and replication across the network.

A participant in ' peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The main node-running roles are , and . connects to other nodes via the P2P networking layer.

A -running role responsible for maintaining the and security of the and providing storage to the . Farmers earn by pledging disk space to the network, of to disk, the created for block and vote rewards by producing blocks for consensus, and joining the DSN as nodes for data retrieval.

for running and nodes within a terminal instance.

The process of converting the into .

A fragment of —the 'useful data' for consensus—before being .

A that has been prepared for .

The immutable ledger of , ordered blocks permanently stored across the in a redundant, verifiable and retrievable way.

A fixed-size section of (potentially partial) blocks. There are two types of segment:

A of in a buffer before .

A of of converted from a by .

A binding, cryptographic commitment to the value and integrity of a specific piece of data that allows the committer () to conceal the committed value and reveal it later. Others can then verify that the committed value matches the original commitment.

The uses two types of commitment:

Record Commitment: a KZG polynomial commitment to the blockchain data in a .

Segment Commitment: a KZG polynomial commitment to hashes of all record commitments in an .

A compact header in an containing the index, segment , a pointer to the previous segment header, and information about the progress of block .

A cryptographic proof of the existence of a specific piece of data within a larger dataset, such as a Merkle tree or polynomial . Witnesses are used in the to efficiently verify the inclusion of data in a or blockchain without requiring access to the entire dataset, enabling and to validate data integrity while minimizing bandwidth and computational overhead.

The process of creating (and maintaining) of on their disk, allowing for efficient consensus and retrievability of archived history.

A unit of from which are composed. Each piece is composed of a , a , and a .

A set of encoded written to disk during . A sector contains encoded the data from the pieces, the original piece , , and other metadata about stored pieces.

A collection of that can be used for .

The process of participating in consensus by competing to solve a puzzle using their . Farmers farm a block and earn rewards when they are the first to solve the puzzle and submit a valid proof.

The process of reconverting to for seeding new .

A -running role responsible for running computation on on the . operators earn by providing compute to the network, running transitions, maintaining state by bundling transactions, validating state , and deterministically executing transaction bundles on in the order defined by the ' in exchange for transaction/compute fees from .

Selected through an -weighted VRF (Verifiable Random Function) election process to produce bundles for a in a specific time slot⁠.⁠

The process of pledging towards on in exchange for rewards, locking it up as collateral to support the operation and security of the .

A -running role responsible for running the chain and maintaining the randomness beacon for the .

holders that tokens towards and earn a share of the fees as rewards.

, the 's custom proof-of-capacity mechanism.

The 's unique consensus mechanism.

Consensus Chain
DecEx
Domains
DSN
Node
Farmer
Autonomys CLI
Operator
Staking
Timekeeper
Nominator
PoAS
Subspace (Protocol)
AI3.0
Autonomys Network
infrastructure stack
build
Auto Suite
Auto SDK
Auto Agents Framework
Auto ID
Space Acres
Astral
Autonomys Network
AI3.0
farmer
operator
$AI3
distributed storage
modular execution
Autonomys CLI
farmers
operators
SCALE-encoded
Autonomys Network
Autonomys Network
operators
Substrate Connect
Autonomys Network
state
node
consensus chain
Autonomys Network
Subspace
PoAS
farmers
execution
farming
consensus
farmers
operators
domains
DecEx
appchains
Autonomys
consensus
DSN
Operators
Autonomys Network
Autonomys Network
domain
stake
domain chain
Operator
farmers
plotted
pieces
archived history
clients
Nodes
Autonomys
farmer
operator
timekeeper
node
history
Autonomys Network
consensus chain
DSN
$AI3
plotting
pieces
archived history
farming
plot
Command Line Interface application
farmer
operator
consensus blockchain
history
archived history
consensus blockchain
history
PoAS
archived
raw record
archiving
archived
consensus chain
DSN
consensus chain
history
segment
raw records
archiving
segment
pieces
archived history
recorded history segment
archiving
nodes
Autonomys Network
raw record
archived history segment
archived history segment
segment
commitment
archiving
commitment
Subspace Protocol
plot
history
farmers
operators
farmers
plots
archived history
PoAS
archived history
archived history segments
record
commitment
witness
pieces
plotting
record
commitments
witnesses
sectors
farming
farmers
Subspace
plots
$AI3
archived history segments
recorded history segments
nodes
node
domains
Autonomys Network
Staked
$AI3
state
commitments
domain chains
farmers
consensus chain
clients
$AI3
stake
domain
nominators
$AI3
operators
domains
Autonomys Network
Proof-of-Time
node
Autonomys Network
consensus chain
nominate
$AI3
operators
staking
Proof-of-Archival-Storage
Autonomys Network
consensus
Autonomys Network
Proof-of-Archival-Storage (PoAS)