Saito is a layer-1 blockchain designed to run applications directly in your browser. It achieves the scale necessary for this by fixing incentive misalignments that exist in the consensus layers of all other blockchains. Newcomers can read our one page explanation of how Saito Consensus works, check out our development roadmap, see the [applications] running on the network, or read a lengthy analysis of routing work deep dives.
This wiki is a community-editable knowledge repository. If you'd like to contribute, you can find all pages stored in markdown in our Saito Wiki Github Repository. Submit edits by making a push request with your proposed changes. In order to help organize the site, we've divided the content into three main categories:
Our consensus section includes details on the consensus mechanism that Saito uses to power its blockchain network. It includes discussions of the incentive problems that Saito fixes and explains why solving them requires paying for fee-collection rather than other gameable forms of work like mining and staking.
Saito is a layer-one blockchain that requires its blocks to contain a certain amount of “routing work”. Routing work is derived from transactions fees so in practice this means they need to contain a certain amount of money. How much depends on how long it has been since the last block and how many hops the transactions containing these fees have taken to reach the block producer.
In cybersecurity, an attack vector is a method of achieving unauthorized network access to launch a cyber attack. Attack vectors allow cybercriminals to exploit system vulnerabilities to gain access to sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), and other valuable information accessible after a data breach. Saito is secure against classes of attack which have no defense mechanisms in other chains. This page explains how these mechanisms work
Our community section includes links to our Telegram and Discord channels, non-English community resources, and information on community-led projects and ways to help the network. We also have information on some ongoing public development efforts and ways you can help out.
Our developer section has instructions on setting up a node in the network, building applications, as well as API guides and reference materials for those interested in hacking up the core software client or learning more about the network architecture.