Protocol Charter (Non-Normative)

Mission

Provide neutral, interoperable ledger infrastructure for participating operators and their institutions. The protocol focuses on technical correctness, security, and operational resilience while remaining agnostic to policy outcomes.

Core Principles

• Neutrality-by-design: protocol logic is deterministic and applies only to formally signed governance decisions. No content or policy judgments are made by the software.
• Openness: the protocol, schemas, and audit logs are open for inspection and review by independent auditors.
• Security-by-design: least-privilege operations, immutable audit trails, defense-in-depth controls, and continuous verification are required for all deployments.
• Federated operations: software is unified, while deployments are hosted by operators. Each operator runs its own infrastructure under shared technical standards.
• No native currency: the protocol does not issue or operate a currency. The ledger represents balances and transfers defined by deployments.

Federation Model

• A common codebase defines protocol behavior and interoperability.
• Operational responsibility is distributed: each operator deploys and maintains its own nodes and observability stack.
• Governance decisions are encoded as signed decision packages and applied uniformly by compliant deployments.