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Glossary

ADR (Architecture Decision Record)

  • A short, versioned document that captures a significant architectural choice, context, the decision, and its consequences.

Aggregators (Walrus)

  • HTTP services that assemble and serve Walrus blobs from distributed slivers; used as a fallback and origin alternative for reads.

Availability Certificate (Walrus)

  • A certificate produced when ≥2/3 shard managers have signed that they hold slivers for a blob; marks the Point of Availability (PoA).

BNF: See ERD, ER Diagram (Mermaid)

Bounty Escrow

  • On‑chain module holding deposits and terms for a bounty; settles with payout or slashing and emits events for reputation.

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

  • Global edge network that caches and serves static assets with low latency.

Content Object

  • On‑chain object representing a published article or media item; references a Walrus blob ID and content hash.

Dynamic Fields (Sui)

  • Keyed storage associated with Sui objects that enables efficient append/update of associated lists/maps.

Enclave (AWS Nitro Enclaves)

  • Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) used for confidential compute; produces attestations (measurement) that code ran as expected.

Entitlement

  • Owned access object that grants a principal the right to read content; per‑article or subscription variants.

ERD (Entity‑Relationship Diagram)

  • Diagram that models entities and their relationships; Mermaid’s erDiagram syntax is used in this documentation.

Groth16 / Threshold Proof

  • zk proof system; “threshold” proofs allow proving that a private value exceeds a threshold without revealing the value.

Kiosk (Sui)

  • Content and listing framework on Sui; policies encode licensing, pricing, royalties, and transfer behaviors.

Move (Sui Move)

  • Smart contract language used on Sui, extended with object ownership and abilities.

Oracle Receipt

  • Verifiable artifact (attestation and/or zk proof) produced by an oracle workflow; anchored on chain and consumed by Move modules.

PoA (Point of Availability)

  • Moment when a Walrus blob becomes available across the committee; evidenced by an availability certificate and event.

Reputation (Pseudonymous)

  • On‑chain score object updated by finalized outcomes (e.g., bounty resolutions) that provides durable accountability without doxxing.

Sponsored Transaction

  • A transaction where a sponsor pays gas while the user signs the intent; both signatures are validated by Sui.

Sui

  • L1 blockchain designed around an object‑centric execution model and high‑throughput parallelism.

Walrus

  • Decentralized blob storage coordinated by Sui; uses erasure coding and distributed committees with aggregator reads.