Vocabulary

A shared language for a delayed network.

The terms used in white paper 1.12, explained in their payment and verification context.

CONTENT REVIEWED / 4 OCTOBER 2026

Currency, regions and ownership

RLD / runlai: RLD is the proposed currency unit. One RLD equals 10²⁴ integer runlai. The target cap is 100 billion RLD with zero initial allocation.
Zone: An authorized region with its own ledger, local consensus and signed rules, bound to one currency root.
Genesis / admission: The pinned origin and signed rules that establish exact network identity and authorized consensus. A discovered identity is not an admission.
Owner: The actual key holder authorized to spend specific inputs under native owner and value checks.
Unspent output: A retained value claim that has not been consumed on the selected history. Maturity, reservation and incident state still matter before spending.

Inclusion: A command has been executed in a block on the region’s selected history. It remains distinct from finality.
Checkpoint: A signed commitment to an exact regional block and its authenticated state/history under adopted rules.
Finality: The region’s enforced constraint against conflicting selected histories, dependent on its consensus and custody assumptions.
Maturity: A local rule delaying when an output can be spent. It does not by itself supply onward export finality.
Export / import: A source debit with a unique destination-bound record, followed by a fully verified unique destination credit. Import does not issue new currency.
Payment channel: A prefunded local arrangement exchanging jointly signed states, with adopted settlement and stale-close challenge rules.
Quarantine: A retained restriction on affected value when authenticated conflicts or missing dependencies make acceptance unsafe.
Validator epoch: The explicitly authorized era of consensus keys and rules. A new key advertisement cannot activate an epoch.

Neighbor / route: A reachable contact or a learned candidate sequence of contacts. A route advertisement does not prove present delivery.
Store-carry-forward: Retaining evidence durably and forwarding it when a usable later contact becomes available.
Transport receipt: A signed acknowledgment of evidence custody in its declared scope, separate from ledger import or spendability.
Native replay: Reconstructing and validating ordered history from pinned genesis with full authority, ownership, value, finality and incident checks.
Latest head: A separately retained commitment used to detect some old-state restores. If all state and heads roll back together, independent freshness is not established.
Ground candidate: A separately admitted no-value engineering fixture with exact source, bounds and evidence; it does not upgrade an adopted network.
Qualification: Evidence that an exact implementation meets specified fault, capacity and horizon requirements. A test count, website or hash alone cannot confer it.

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