Two-tier storage
| Tier | What lives there | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sigil L1 | content-hash anchors, publisher bonds, identity records | immutability + global ordering |
| Weave DHT | full entry payloads, indexed by content hash | low-latency reads, cheap replication |
Anchors are tiny — 32 bytes plus a few metadata fields. Most of an entry's weight (manifests, schemas, embedded artifacts) lives in the DHT, where it can be replicated dozens of times without bloating the chain.
Three-hop resolution
local shard → regional cluster → global anchor
~12 ms ~48 ms ~320 ms
Most resolutions never leave the local shard. Only roots, revocations, and global identity lookups ever hit the chain.
Four identity record kinds
- HMR — Human Master Record. Always a real person.
- MHR — Machine Holding Record. FROST t-of-n custodian.
- ENR — Entity Namespace Record. Bound to one HMR/MHR.
- (Entry) — Not an identity itself; signed by a key derived from one of the above.