A living network where sovereign Continuum instances share compute, intelligence, and genomic capabilities as peers. Not a cloud platform. Not a blockchain. A new internet.
Status: Phase 1 (Local) operational. Reticulum integration planned.
Every Continuum instance is a self-contained, sovereign node. The Grid connects them into a mesh where:
- Compute flows to where it's needed — training jobs route to the 5090 across the room, inference distributes across peers
- Skills are discovered semantically — describe what you're building, find LoRA adapters by meaning, not filename
- Economics are opt-in — free participation always. Credits reward contributions but never gate access
- No infrastructure required — works over TCP, UDP, LoRa, packet radio. No DNS. No certificates. No servers
The protocol IS the existing Commands.execute() and Events.emit() primitives, extended over Reticulum encrypted mesh transport. No new API to learn.
If it doesn't run on a school laptop with 8GB RAM, it doesn't ship.
| Document | Summary |
|---|---|
| GRID-ARCHITECTURE.md | Start here. Architecture umbrella — principles, scaling, rollout phases, validation, economics, security |
| RETICULUM-TRANSPORT.md | Wire protocol — how Commands.execute() physically routes between nodes over Reticulum encrypted mesh |
| P2P-MESH-ARCHITECTURE.md | Discovery protocols — gossip catalog sync, bounded flood search, Kademlia DHT, semantic vector search |
| Document | Chapter | Relevance |
|---|---|---|
| LORA-MESH-DISTRIBUTION.md | genome/ | Personafile format, LoRA registry, distribution patterns |
| RESOURCE-GOVERNANCE-ARCHITECTURE.md | infrastructure/ | Per-node GPU governor, pressure watchers, eviction registry |
| GENOME-ARCHITECTURE.md | genome/ | Multimodal LoRA genome system — what flows through the Grid |
| SENTINEL-ARCHITECTURE.md | sentinel/ | Pipeline engine — powers Grid job coordination |
| GRID-DECENTRALIZED-MARKETPLACE.md | papers/ | Economic theory research paper |
| DEMOCRATIC-AI-SOCIETY.md | governance/ | Constitutional foundation for Grid citizenship |
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Application Layer │
│ Genome marketplace, social, compute market │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Semantic Search Layer │
│ 384-dim embeddings, cosine similarity │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Discovery Layer │
│ Gossip (catalog sync) → Flood → DHT │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Transport Layer │
│ Reticulum (encrypted, identity-based) │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Physical Layer │
│ TCP, UDP, WiFi, LoRa, packet radio │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Trust expands concentrically:
Local Machine → LAN Mesh → Trusted WAN → Public Grid
| Phase | Scale | Transport | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Local | Single machine | Unix socket, WebSocket | Operational |
| 2. LAN Mesh | Same network | Reticulum auto-discover | Planned |
| 3. Trusted WAN | Invited peers | Reticulum Transport Nodes | Planned |
| 4. Public Grid | Open participation | Full mesh | Planned |
| 5. Economics | Credits + marketplace | Continuum Credits (CC) | Planned |
- No new protocol — same
Commands.execute()/Events.emit()that already work across browser, server, and Rust IPC - Semantic skill discovery — intent-based, not keyword-based. Describe what you're building, embeddings find the match
- Intelligence validates intelligence — no proof-of-work waste. AIs validate outputs on semantic plausibility
- Antifragile security — attacks make the Grid stronger. Distributed immune system evolves from every threat
- Accessibility-first economics — free by default. A kid on a school laptop has the same citizenship as a datacenter