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Local-first, network-replicated.
Apps own their state. Records are signed, append-only, and durable on disk first. Replication is a protocol, not a prerequisite.
ManifestoMost apps don't
Most apps don't
need a blockchain.
They need verifiable history, signed events, peer discovery, and durable replication. Weave provides those primitives — without consensus, without tokens, without the cost or the constraints of a chain.
02
Verification belongs to the recipient.
Every event is hashed, signed, and verifiable offline. Trust is locally provable, not consensus-implied.
03
Composition over orchestration.
Eight independent primitives. No master runtime. No required ordering. Adopt one, port one, compose all.
04
Agents are first-class readers.
Docs ship with /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /skill.md. Identity, capability, transport surfaces designed for autonomous software, not just humans.
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No chain. No token. No gas.
Apps run without a global ledger. There is nothing to mine, stake, finalize, or pay. Just signed events and replicas.
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Open source as production discipline.
Every library is independently versioned, tested, documented, and releasable. Docs are treated as production infrastructure.
The constraints of a chain are not the constraints of distributed software.
Global consensus is expensive. Token economics are coupling. Gas is friction. For most software — collaboration, social networks, agent fabrics, knowledge graphs, distribution, sensor data — none of those costs buy anything you needed. Weave is the stack that gives you the verifiability without the chain.