Semantic Layer and Blockchain Layer ​

For Realith, it is especially important not to confuse the semantic model of the network with the physical form of its canonization.

Semantic layer ​

The Realith semantic layer includes:

• objects;
• structures;
• structure properties;
• relations;
• contours;
• version lines;
• canonical current state.

This is where the meaning of coordination resides.

Blockchain layer ​

The blockchain layer retains:

• canonization of admissible transitions;
• epochs and their outcomes;
• the verifiable published surface;
• causal continuity between recognized outcomes.

Why these are not the same thing ​

Relations between objects naturally form a graph-like semantics.
But it does not follow from this that the lower canonization layer must be graph-shaped in its own form.

And conversely, the presence of a chain of epochs does not mean the whole network is exhausted by chain form.

What this distinction provides ​

It protects Realith against two distortions at once:

• reading the network as “just a blockchain”;
• reading the network as “a graph database to which a chain was attached for some reason.”

It is more correct to read the architecture this way:

• the semantic layer may be a graph of objects and relations;
• the blockchain layer may be a chain of epochs and their outcomes.