RING 1 — PROTOCOL FIELD Label: Consensus Rule Set (PoW • Va…

RING 1 — PROTOCOL FIELD
Label: Consensus Rule Set (PoW • Validation • Settlement)
Stakeholders: Protocol stewards, reference implementers, reviewers, standards editors (BIP authors), auditors.
Cooperative Strategies:
- Change conservatively: small surface, high review, ossify core invariants.
- Prove, then ship: peer-reviewed proposals, test vectors, reproducible builds.
- Guard the invariant: every path must reconcile to 21e8.
Emergent Behavior: Reliable settlement fabric; censorship resistance hardens; the chain’s social contract simplifies.