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# Kindelia Tenets

Kindelia is an unstoppable, credibly neutral, efficient and provably secure p2p
functional computer we are radically maximizing for:

- Decentralization
- Stability
- Efficiency

Hardcore minimalism, finalized protocol with formal spec, locked down no
governance, pure HVM are the radical conclusions following those objectives.

Long term robust stability with sufficient practical capacity is our niche and
where most protocol value will come from.

## Minimalist

Simplicity and leanness is the biggest edge for real decentralization and
robustness. The number of independent entities understanding the full code
capable of implementing it, is a much better measure of decentralization than
hashrate or holders. minimal core maintainers required, with minimal political
power, with minimal bar of becoming one. also stimulates node diversity.

our niche is choosing simple lower utility over complex higher utility. strongly
gravitate towards choosing simplicity on tradeoff decisions.

## Maximally decentralized on every level

While simplicity is the core ingredient of real decentralization, we radically
minimize dependencies and by principle reject external dependencies on parts
which don't adhere to our ideals. we run as much native as possible. we minimize
political centralization and avoid tying central personas too much to the public
Kindelia image. the goal of the Kindelia association is to bootstrap the
ecosystem through grants, education, tools, UX and contract development and
dissolve its influence over time.

we are fully committed to PoW, due to its superior robustness and
decentralization. PoS is of more political nature, easier to fork and, most
importantly, increases core complexity which conflicts with our core ideals.

## Finalized and Ossified

Real decentralization and robustness has to be encoded from the genesis block.
Decentralizing over time is much more difficult for many reasons and
fundamentally cannot compete with decentralization from genesis. Kindelia
launches complete, it is considered done, final with a formal spec. This allows
to lock it down from genesis with zero developer privileges and zero governance
features. For ossification, it does not have to be the perfect system, just
perfect enough to work. Locking it down from the genesis block is incredibly
powerful for long-term stability and decentralization, while putting all focus
on development on top of this stable core.

## Efficiency

Kindelia is uniquely positioned to be extraordinarily stable and robust due to
its simplicity, yet being so efficient and capable due to the HVM that it still
exceeds the complex, more centralized L1 behemoths in practical utility. That's
the superpower for adoption and growth. Vital is fast HVM compute and cheap
storage.

Kindelia should import interpreted HVM-CUDA.

Maximizing long-term stability for apps that run forever, while having cheap
native formal verification to guarantee their correctness + efficiency is the
killer app.

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How can we create a Schelling point impossible to social fork?

To our vision, forks are only a problem if they stray from our principles.
Hence, we foster the big foundational strongly principled memes that the
Kindelia narrative and investment thesis builds on to the degree that violations
of them will be impossible to get community support on because it's in conflict
with people's conviction of what makes the protocol most valuable.

Similar to how 21 million supply cap is a Schelling point to Bitcoin. Good luck
trying to fork that away.

The core value proposition of Kindelia is its unprecedented long-term stability
and robustness with practical efficiency. Radical simplicity is our fundamental
design philosophy, which is the core ingredient behind the stability and
robustness. Our long-term value is tied to our stability and robustness more
than scalability.
