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The protocol, explained properly
Ten guides that explain how VirtEngine actually works — grounded in the protocol repository, its documentation, and its economic simulation framework. No filler, no invented numbers.
Fundamentals
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Marketplace fundamentals
How the VirtEngine marketplace works
A walkthrough of VirtEngine's Waldur-connected marketplace: a multi-service catalogue, custom offerings, orders, bids, leases, usage reporting, and settlement.
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Payments architecture
Escrow and settlement, explained
How VirtEngine replaces invoicing with protocol machinery: escrow accounts, hourly usage records, the 24-hour dispute window, anomaly detection, and automatic payout.
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Identity layer
What is VEID?
VEID is VirtEngine's privacy-preserving identity layer: on-device capture, active liveness, biometric hardware attestation, validator consensus scoring, and zero-knowledge proofs.
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Economics & governance
Money, risk, and control
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Economics
VirtEngine tokenomics, explained
The proposed VirtEngine economic model: identity-led issuance, conservative staking rewards, and governance-controlled parameters.
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Staking risk
Understanding slashing on VirtEngine
What gets a VirtEngine validator slashed, how slashing affects delegators, the 21-day unbonding period, and how to evaluate validator risk before delegating.
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Economics
Provider economics on VirtEngine
The revenue model for VirtEngine providers: bid pricing, escrow-backed leases, zero marketplace commission, low validator transaction fees, and how benchmarks, audits, and reviews raise realised prices.
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Governance
Governance on VirtEngine
How VirtEngine is governed: bonded-stake voting, governed issuance and validator-fee parameters, roles and configuration, and Foundation stewardship.
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Advanced capabilities
Confidential compute, HPC & mainnet
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Security architecture
Confidential computing on VirtEngine
How VirtEngine makes confidential compute verifiable: enclave attestation on-chain via x/enclave, encrypted payload delivery via x/encryption, and attested placement constraints.
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Supercomputing
HPC on VirtEngine
How VirtEngine brings supercomputing into the marketplace: the x/hpc job model, SLURM/MOAB/Open OnDemand adapters, job lifecycle management, and settlement for batch work.
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Network
The road to mainnet
VirtEngine's mainnet posture: planned for the January 2027 launch window, with guidance on verifying status and release materials.
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Reference material
When you need the exact details
The guides link into the module reference — one page per on-chain module — and outward to docs.virtengine.com for message-level documentation. Questions the guides don't answer may already be in the FAQ.