Protocol status: Draft architecture. eCoin is under development. These pages describe the Version 0.1 design direction and illustrative developer models, not a finalized wire protocol, production API, or live mainnet.
Message families
| Family | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Handshake | Negotiate network, protocol version, and capabilities. |
| Transactions | Announce, request, validate, and relay signed transactions. |
| Ledger sync | Discover and retrieve required finalized or candidate ledger data. |
| Consensus | Carry validator proposal and vote information. |
| Peer control | Maintain liveness, rate limits, and connection health. |
Wire format status
No production message IDs, binary framing, compression, handshake magic values, or maximum payload sizes are defined by this documentation version. Those belong in a versioned protocol specification with test vectors.
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