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Swarm Formal Specification

Swarm Research Division.

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Draft of 12 August 2025
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86 pages
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About this paper

The Swarm Formal Specification is a comprehensive technical document that formally defines the data structures, algorithms, and game-theoretic mechanisms underlying the Swarm network. It covers the Distributed Immutable Store of Chunks (DISC), chunk addressing, Single Owner Chunks, postage stamps, and redistribution game mechanics.

It also details the APIs, cryptographic primitives, and protocols used to ensure integrity, availability, and incentivization within the system.

What's inside

  1. 1Formal specification
  2. 2Data types and algorithms
  3. 3Appendix: density-based size estimation, source of randomness, parameter constants