RQ-002 — The Circuit Model
Abstract
The circuit model treats every distributed domain as a collection of items whose states evolve through deterministic events. Each event carries structured payloads, author proofs, causal hashes, and optional zero-knowledge attestations, allowing any participant to replay history and verify integrity without a global ledger. Rules ((\mathcal{R})) define admissible transitions, merge operators reconcile forks, and adapters project the log onto any storage substrate—from rollups to replicated databases.
Research Notes
- Circuits expose a minimal interface: state (\sigma), event log (E), transition function (\Psi), and validation predicates so that governance, privacy, and conflict resolution remain local to each domain.
- Merge strategies (timestamp-based LWW, quorum rules, or zk-audited reducers) become pluggable components, enabling federated collaboration without ceding control to a single sequencer.
- Hybrid payloads split public metadata from encrypted bodies, making it possible to prove rule compliance while shielding commercial data.
- Adapters describe how circuit events are committed to L2s, DA layers, or institutionally managed stores, reinforcing the “logic first, storage later” ethos.