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Initial (rebased) draft from copilot synthesis of sources#5

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Supercedes #4 due to rebasing

This is the beginning of structuring Shielded Labs's Crosslink design specification into ZIPs. This version is mostly generated by copilot synthesizing a few sources, and is full of misleading, incorrect, or missing pieces. However, it begins a basic structure with an "overview ZIP" and a "construction ZIP" (which is intended to have similar scope to the TFL book "Crosslink 2 construction").

More ZIPs expected, perhaps for:

  • BFT protocol
  • Crosslink-specific network transport protocol (see below)
  • Changes to PoW state and consensus
  • Roster mechanics & ledger state
  • Activation logic

Auxilliary / Related work in our development of the Crosslink Feature Net is decoupled from Crosslink proper, and these auxilliary ZIPs could be adopted or rejected independently of the Crosslink design (although rejection would require re-engineering the solutions they provide in the Shielded Labs implementation):

  • A new peer transport protocol (aka "Shielded Transport Pigeon")
  • A new PoW block syncing algorithm

Copilot AI and others added 4 commits May 27, 2026 13:38
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…ns, bounded availability fix, divergences appendix
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shielded-nate merged commit 7cdceca into zip-crosslink-first-draft May 27, 2026
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