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Pocket Network Actors

Overview​

Pocket Network protocol is composed of both on-chain and off-chain actors.

There are 3 on-chain actors:

There are 2 off-chain actors:

On-Chain Actors​

On-Chain 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.

Off-Chain Actors​

Off-Chain 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.

Off-chain actors play a key role in executing off-chain business logic that is verified on-chain and drives on-chain state transitions.