DecentralChain1 min read
DecentralChain has a manual and a set of reference pages that read live from the network. Between them they answer what the protocol does and what the network is doing right now. Neither answers why we changed something, and that is the gap this blog fills.
Release notes with reasoning attached. Protocol changes and the argument for them. Post-mortems when something breaks. Occasionally a walkthrough of a part of the system that the manual documents correctly but tersely.
Price talk, partnership announcements with no shipped code behind them, and roadmap dates we have not earned the right to promise.
The site build runs a check over published copy: any figure that reads like a factual claim has to appear in SOURCE-OF-TRUTH.md with a provenance tag, or the build fails. That check covers these posts too.
It is a crude rule. It cannot tell a sourced fact from an editorial one, only whether a number ever passed through the register. That turns out to be enough, because the failure it exists to catch is a figure reaching a public page without anyone checking where it came from.
If you find a claim here you cannot trace, that is a bug. Tell us and we will fix it or remove it.