Status: pre-launch. This page describes target design; this document does not establish a deployed service.
Current research boundary — 2026-09-26. Skyzai is the substrate organism and product programme; SPECTRE is the proposed physical node and transport network; MESH is its many-to-many routing pattern. FLOW (one to one), RELAY (one to many) and AXIOM (many to one) are communication patterns carried over MESH paths. FLOW's first use is direct one-to-one messaging; settlement is a separate capability. AXIOM ranks or aggregates for one recipient and is never consensus or truth. One publisher's broadcast fits RELAY, while many-publisher public posts are a proposed MESH application style. Hashgraph orders the shared ledger as a separate process. The remaining body preserves an earlier taxonomy for provenance. Its descriptions of SPECTRE as the N:N primitive or as Hashgraph consensus, automatic truth from convergence, an exhaustive four-pattern theorem and operational performance are not current research conclusions. See the architecture draft.
Historical Draft: Four Communication Patterns — FLOW, RELAY, AXIOM, and MESH
This page describes the routing grammar of the organism. Read the implementation examples below as target protocol patterns unless a narrower runtime proof has explicitly closed a given lane.
Every communication pattern in the organism reduces to one of four topological primitives. These are not protocol names — they are mathematical categories of information routing. In the target architecture, these patterns run on the SPECTRE substrate.
The Hierarchy
SPECTRE (N:N) ── the substrate. Target architecture routes through this.
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|-- RELAY (1:N) ── broadcast ON SPECTRE
|-- AXIOM (N:1) ── convergence ON SPECTRE
|-- FLOW (1:1) ── streaming ON SPECTRE
In the earlier taxonomy, SPECTRE was described as a hashgraph-shaped substrate; the current terms name SPECTRE the node and transport network and Hashgraph a separate ledger process (see the banner). The other three are communication patterns that exist on that network.
SPECTRE — N:N Mesh (The Substrate)
Topology: Peer paths across the node network; it need not be a full mesh.
Implementation: Earlier target design: a self-myelinating network in which each edge would be a gossip channel. Nodes that communicate frequently would develop thicker connections (myelination). Nodes that communicate rarely would atrophy.
Function: SPECTRE is the nervous-system substrate. It is meant to carry all signals. Without SPECTRE, nothing routes.
Folder: 3.1 SPECTRE/
In the earlier taxonomy, SPECTRE was described as hashgraph rather than blockchain, with gossip about gossip and fast aBFT ordering. In the current terms that ordering belongs to the separate Hashgraph ledger; SPECTRE itself provides no consensus or finality.
RELAY — 1:N Broadcast (On SPECTRE)
Topology: One sender, N receivers. Broadcast. Implementation: Target pattern: a node publishes a signed message. SPECTRE gossips it to all subscribers. Subscribers verify the signature against the sender's Nostr public key. Function: Announcements, price feeds, OSINT alerts, oracle data. Anything where one source needs to reach many consumers. Example: In the target pattern, Circle publishes a Watchman Score update. Every subscribed DAV receives it via RELAY on SPECTRE.
RELAY is the broadcast pattern of the organism. In the target design, it is built on Nostr event kinds, carried over MESH paths on the SPECTRE node network. One message, N recipients, cryptographic authenticity.
AXIOM — N:1 Convergence (On SPECTRE)
Topology: N senders, one receiver. Convergence. Implementation: Multiple sources submit observations, predictions, or votes. A convergence function (median, LMSR, weighted average) reduces N inputs to one output. Function: Ranking or aggregation for one recipient, such as a recorded prediction-market outcome. Never consensus or truth.
AXIOM = settled ReFu bets. This is the critical definition. In the target design, when a ReFu prediction market resolves under its rules, the N bets converge into one recorded outcome. That recorded outcome is an AXIOM: an N:1 convergence of skin-in-the-game predictions that keeps every source visible. It is a money-weighted recorded outcome, not a settled truth. They are resolved bets, not assertions.
Example: ReFu market "Will ETH exceed $5000 by Q3?" resolves YES. The N:1 convergence of all bets produces an AXIOM. In the target design, this AXIOM feeds into Circle's intelligence graph and APU's decision inputs.
FLOW — 1:1 Streaming (On SPECTRE)
Topology: One sender, one receiver. Direct stream. Implementation: Target pattern: a continuous, conditioned payment channel between two parties. Tokens stream per-second from sender to receiver, conditioned on state (see Flow-Axiom). Function: Salary streaming, service payments, conditional transfers. Anything where value flows continuously between two parties. Example: A DAV streams payment to a service provider at 0.001 ZAI/second, conditioned on an AXIOM that the service is operational.
Why Exactly Four
These four patterns exhaust the topological possibilities:
- N:N (mesh) = SPECTRE
- 1:N (broadcast) = RELAY
- N:1 (convergence) = AXIOM
- 1:1 (direct) = FLOW
There is no 0:N (no sender) or N:0 (no receiver) because communication requires at least one of each. There is no M:N where M != 1 and M != N because M:N decomposes into combinations of the four primitives. Four is necessary and sufficient.
The Composition Rule
Complex communication patterns are composed from primitives:
- Circle 7-agent cascade: RELAY (publish query) -> SPECTRE (agents gossip) -> AXIOM (agents converge on reliability score)
- APU Court Deliberation: RELAY (broadcast signal to directorates) -> FLOW (each directorate reports to Chief of Staff) -> AXIOM (Chief synthesizes PROCEED/HOLD)
- Algorithmic TRO settlement: FLOW (streaming payment) conditioned on AXIOM (market resolution)
At the grammar level, every pattern in the organism decomposes into these four. No exceptions.
In the routing grammar, SPECTRE is the substrate. RELAY broadcasts on it. AXIOM converges on it. FLOW streams on it.