The Realith Blockchain as a Canonization Layer ​

The Realith blockchain layer holds admissible transitions of object versions and the results of epochs.

It is needed so that the network can:

• canonize admissible transitions of object versions;
• retain epochs and their results;
• publish verifiable outcomes;
• link the current canon with causal continuity.

What exactly it fixes ​

The blockchain layer fixes not “transactions in general,” but:

• transitions of structurally defined object versions;
• the results of epochs;
• the linkage of the current canon with a verifiable surface.

What it does not fix as an autonomous source of meaning ​

The blockchain layer by itself does not define:

• what counts as an object;
• which structure is admissible;
• which structure properties affect the behavior of the object;
• what meaning object canon has;
• which external bases of right exist.

How it relates to object canon ​

• object canon defines the semantic model;
• blockchain layer retains canonization.

The placement of a compatible execution surface and the reading of the EVM layer as a derived layer are disclosed on the page /compatibility-layer/evm-layer.

If one takes an ordinary transactional chain and simply adds object vocabulary, the result is not Realith, but the old model with new words.

In Realith, it must be the other way around:

• the object is primary at the level of meaning;
• transition of an object version is the object of canonization;
• the current canon matters more than the mere fact of accumulated history.

The Realith blockchain layer must not force every working node to live as an endless hot archive.

That is why epochs and history compaction are part of the layer's architectural logic itself, rather than only a later optimization.