Pocket Network Actors

• Overview
• Onchain Actors
  • Risks & Misbehavior
• Offchain Actors

Overview

Pocket Network protocol is composed of both onchain and offchain actors.

There are 3 onchain actors:

• Applications
• Suppliers
• Gateways

There are 2 offchain actors:

• RelayMiners
• PATH Gateways

Onchain Actors

Onchain actors are part of the Pocket Network distributed ledger. They are the "Web3" part of Pocket.

They can thought of as a record, a registration or a piece of state at a certain point in time. They have an address, an account, a balance and often also have a stake.

Risks & Misbehavior

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This is an open work in progress and an active area of research.

Offchain Actors

Offchain actors are all the operators that make up Pocket Network. They are the "Web2" part of Pocket.

They can be thought of as servers, processes or clients.

Offchain actors play a key role in executing offchain business logic that is verified onchain and drives onchain state transitions.