2.0
Address by name. Commit by hash.
A global, identity-focused DeFi layer-1. People and groups are first-class citizens. The chain witnesses tips — it does not run leaf politics.
Authorize by proof. Leave leaf law to the leaf.
Guld 2.0 is a hard fork of Guld 1.0: preserve historical balances where possible; do not preserve blockchain-in-git as the product model. Validators stay lean — fixed transaction schemas, hashes, signatures, and a small set of built-in state updates. Custom operations live in leaves.
Identity-first
Transfers, bonds, and tips bind to usernames and groups — not opaque key hashes alone.
Network as witness
L1 verifies enumerated leaf-consensus proofs and records new master hashes.
Lean validators
No general VM. No requirement to index social graphs or execute leaf interpreters.
Three planes
Consensus commits headers and fees. State maps names to accounts, keys, thresholds, and balances. Objects hold content-addressed homes — optional git and PGP stay leaf tools, not the consensus bus.
Fees follow a Bitcoin-style weight market in GULD. The reserved account
guld carries protocol software; full nodes must clone it.