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title: Dagon

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# [Draft] PRD A Dagon

## Motivation

We believe that Anoma Dagon will be the entry point for building the financial  coordination layer for the multi-planetary future of humanity, artificial intelligence, and other intelligent forms of life. As such we believe continued work on the anoma/anoma codebase *should* continue in earnest. 

## Product Overview 

Below you will find a draft of minimal viable product requirements describing at a high level what is necessary to develop the Anoma Heliax Controller. In particular, the essential ingredients are;
- Execution Environment
- Local Domain
- Ethereum requirements
- Replicated State Machine

Note that engineering has reviewed and provided initial feedback. Please read this document on [product requirements](https://research.anoma.net/t/product-requirement-document-process/1292) for a refresher :smile:.

## High Level Components

### Execution Environment

- Resource Machine 
	- Cairo RM or something that does not require "shielding" (fewer proofs)
### Local Domain
 
-  Standard Local Domain Suite
	- data storage
	- data querying 
	- encompass everything non-RSM (replicated state machine)
	- Controller Scrying
		- subscription to envio
	- Solver/Prover (GPU cluster)
	- Event Broker
	- external calls
	- Identity management 
	- Intent Pool 

### Ethereum facing requirements

- Forwarder contract for deposits/withdraws
- Emergency override condition (EOC)
- EVM <-> Controller Interop 
	- Rollup proof verifier
- Migration Protocol for bugs/upgrades
	- Variable size merkle tree 

### Replicated State Machine

- The trifecta
	- Mempool for total transaction candidates
	- Execution Engine
	- Ordering Engine
- Data Storage (archive data) / Data availability 
- Fee market (resource pricing - e.g., compute, bandwidth, storage)
	- gas market 
- Post ordering execution 
- High throughput (250ms blocktimes or less)
	- Sharding

## High-level Diagrams

![2025-09-02-105811_2878x1725_scrot](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJ0BlnE9gx.png)
![2025-09-02-105758_2843x1720_scrot](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Sk0rg24cle.png)

