pre-mvp

The sovereign substrate

Global does not mean universally open.

Legra is infrastructure for all data: open or closed, public or private, shared or restricted. Independently governed workspaces can link and transact across a global graph without dissolving their cryptographic, organizational, contractual, or economic boundaries.

Control and participation belong together.

Data sovereignty is not useful if it leaves every participant in an isolated pod. A sovereign workspace must also be able to discover, authorize, deliver, use, prove, and settle bounded work with other parties.

One network, several boundaries

Openness is a choice for each body of knowledge.

Private

A personal or organizational workspace can remain local, encrypted, and available only to explicitly authorized members.

Shared

A bounded group can collaborate on graph knowledge, files, conversations, tasks, and changes without publishing them globally.

Restricted

A Data Product or Use Case can cross boundaries under explicit identity, purpose, rights, duties, delivery, and economic terms.

Public

Knowledge intended for open use can participate in the same graph and logistics network without making every linked workspace public.

Sovereignty is a system

Ownership is not a checkbox. It is a stack of enforceable boundaries.

Cryptographic authority

Workspace keys determine who can interpret protected content. A node that retains encrypted blocks does not gain authority merely by storing them.

Placement and custody

Owners choose self-operated or service-provided nodes and can separate the machines that preserve data from the parties allowed to read or change it.

Membership

Workspace membership establishes the primary collaboration boundary for people, organizations, services, and agents.

Purpose and policy

Fine-grained, standards-based policy can express permitted uses, duties, constraints, and prohibitions within a workspace.

ODRL-based control planned

Governed change

Branches, validation, review, provenance, and signed history make authority over change as important as authority over reading.

Economic choice

An owner can keep knowledge private, share it freely, or price access, use, services, and permitted change without transferring the source workspace.

Authority is not custody

More encrypted copies can improve availability without granting more readers.

Custodians can preserve and replicate content-addressed encrypted blocks. Interpretation requires separate workspace authority. This lets owners choose placement and redundancy without treating every storage provider as a trusted data administrator.

Custody

Stores, transports, replicates, and serves encrypted blocks.

Authority

Identifies who may interpret, use, propose, approve, or price bounded activity.

One model for every participant

Individuals

Private personal workspaces can serve as Linked Web Storage-style pods and selectively participate in third-party transactions.

Teams and communities

Members improve a shared corpus while its identity, authority, history, and publication boundary remain explicit.

Organizations

Enterprises can connect internal, partner, regulated, and public knowledge without assigning one platform authority over everything.

Data Products

A product workspace can publish governed supply while preserving its models, files, provenance, policies, dependencies, and commercial terms.

From private pod to bounded transaction

Participate without handing over the source workspace.

The transaction boundary can be narrower than the ownership boundary. That makes selective exchange practical for individuals as well as global organizations.

  1. 01Keep sensitive source knowledge inside its sovereign workspace.
  2. 02Describe the specific Data Product, Use Case, service, or action being offered or requested.
  3. 03Authorize the identities, purpose, rights, duties, resources, and price for that bounded activity.
  4. 04Deliver or execute through encrypted, attributable logistics rather than transferring control of the source workspace.
  5. 05Preserve activity evidence and settle the resulting value flows among the participating parties.