Introduction
Verse runs code on a machine you don’t trust and hands you a cryptographic receipt that an independent node re-ran it and got the same answer. Not “trust the cloud” — check the re-run. No global ledger, no mandatory coin, no chain.
Everything else in this documentation is plumbing on top of that one idea.
The one claim
A provider runs a content-addressed WASM capsule on content-addressed input, returns a signed receipt, and an independent verifier replays it to confirm honesty — catching a lying provider even when its signature is valid.
A signature alone proves the provider signed something. Replay is the teeth: the verifier re-runs the exact capsule on the exact input and checks the output hash matches. If it doesn’t, the provider lied, and the payment is refunded.
Three primitives
Everything in Verse is built from three things.
| Primitive | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| I | Space | what exists — signed, expiring records |
| II | Capsule | what runs — sandboxed, portable WASM |
| III | Pact | what was agreed — a temporary signed deal |
Everything else — money, discovery, verification, agents — is a pluggable adapter on top.
What is deliberately not here
- a native coin (payments plug in; default is prepaid credits or ecash)
- a global ledger (double-spend state lives in one small replaceable mint)
- a global smart-contract VM (a Pact is a tiny deterministic transition table)
- a mandatory DHT (discovery is catalog Spaces + a registry)
- permanent history (records expire unless leased)
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