A public, community-driven repository dedicated to researching, documenting, and exploring the architecture of Zenon — The Network of Momentum (NoM).
This repository serves as an open engineering commons for protocol research, architecture analysis, implementation specifications, historical preservation, and future ecosystem development.
The purpose of this repository is simple:
Make Zenon's architecture easier to understand, easier to build on, and easier to extend.
Over time, research in this repository has expanded beyond documentation into active exploration of:
- Browser-native infrastructure
- libp2p networking
- Dynamic Plasma
- Deterministic execution
- WASM smart contracts
- Extension chains
- Data availability systems
- Bitcoin interoperability
- Verification-first architecture
The goal is not to dictate Zenon's future.
The goal is to create a public space where developers can study it, challenge assumptions, publish research, and build upon it.
https://zenon-developer-commons.gitbook.io/zenon-developer-commons-docs
Research essays, architecture discussions, and long-form analysis:
https://zenonaliencommons.substack.com
This repository is active.
It contains:
- Architecture documentation
- Technical essays
- Protocol research
- Specifications
- Design proposals
- Historical investigations
- Experimental implementation work
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, documents should be treated as research artifacts rather than official protocol commitments.
Nothing in this repository supersedes official network behavior.
- Network of Momentum (NoM)
- Account-chains and momentum consensus
- Plasma and Fusion
- Pillars, Sentinels, and Accelerators
- Deterministic verification systems
- Browser wallets
- Browser proof verification
- WebRTC networking
- Browser-native node participation
- Lightweight verification models
- Deterministic WASM execution
- Feeless execution models
- MEV-resistant ordering
- Off-chain execution with on-chain settlement
- Fraud-proof and validity-proof roadmaps
- Data availability systems
- Extension chains
- Oracle networks
- Execution markets
- Native infrastructure services
- Bitcoin interoperability
- Verification boundaries
- SPV models
- Taproot-era design possibilities
- Trust-minimized observation systems
Recommended sequence:
- Greenpaper Series
- Purplepaper Series
- Indigopaper Series
- Orangepaper Series
These papers explore the architectural evolution of the ideas documented throughout this repository found under /References.
This repository is:
- A research commons
- A documentation hub
- A protocol specification archive
- A place for architecture discussion
- A public engineering workspace
- A collaborative environment for developers
This repository is not:
- A governance body
- An official roadmap
- A decision-making authority
- A replacement for core development
- A political forum
Research here may influence future work.
It does not determine future work.
Contributions are welcome.
You can contribute by:
- Opening issues
- Improving documentation
- Publishing research
- Reviewing specifications
- Building tooling
- Creating diagrams
- Testing implementations
Technical disagreement is encouraged.
Personal conflict is not.
MIT License
Open to anyone who wants to learn, research, build, or contribute.