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The seven entities the open record is built from, and how they link.
Everything in the open record is one of seven entities, and each one links to the others in a fixed shape. Read this page once and the rest of the reference falls into place. This reference describes the wave shape specifically (commit-reveal-v1); the free official-result predictions you can try today use a different, source-verified mechanism, not covered here.
The seven entities
- Wave
- One round of participation, with a clear start and end. Everything else hangs off a wave.
- Mechanism
- The published method that decides a wave (commit-reveal-v1), committed before the wave runs. Scoped to waves — other product families use other mechanisms.
- Participant
- A person taking part on terms they can see.
- Participation
- A single act of taking part in a wave, written to the record.
- Outcome
- What the mechanism produced for a wave, tied back to its commitment.
- Contribution
- The defined share of a participation routed to a cause, traceable end to end.
- Cause
- A verified destination for the defined share, fixed per wave and published in advance.