Table of Contents

• Table of Contents - this document
• Introduction - what is the Swarm protocol
• Data replication model
  • Replicas - database replicas, full and partial
  • Order - op order (partial, local linear)
• Protocol primitives
  • Base64x64 numbers - our sacred serialization format
  • Stamps - event/object ids for a distributed system
  • Specifiers - compound event... descriptors
  • Operations - immutable ops are Swarm's blood cells
• Handshakes - how sync sessions start and end
  • Peer-to-peer handshakes - for full database replicas
  • Client handshakes - for clients, to connect to a database
  • Object handshakes - for clients, to fetch an object and subscribe to updates
• Replicated data types - everything that can run on top of Swarm
  • Last-write-wins object - a very popular simple type
  • CRDT - our beloved and precious Conflict-free replicated data types
  • Swarm coin - an example of a non-CRDT RDT with expicit inconsistencies, a crypto currency
• Crypto - Swarm data integrity machinery
  • Causality/integrity tracking - all-powerful noops
  • Entanglement matrix - like blockchain, but uses distributed math (not linear)