vdxf.net Ref. 3ffa9d7 · pinned 2026-09-17 · independent reference

The VDXF protocol, made readable.

VDXF is Verus’s data-definition layer — how identities, currencies and on-chain content describe themselves. This site is an independent reading of it: a book that walks the TypeScript primitives line by line, and a neutral explorer for the data identities actually publish.

FIELD NOTE

Not affiliated with Verus. Built against the source at a pinned revision.

Ink-line system plate: an open book, a gridded magnifying lens and a stack of index cards, drawn left to right inside a drafting frame with corner marks and measurement ticks.
FIG. 01 System plate: the three doors. Book (read), identity explorer (inspect), schemas (reference). Ink on paper, not to scale.

FIG. 02How a VDXF request is made

Available →

Thirteen chapters, from the object model and signature flags to envelopes, request families and ideals of synthesis.

  1. 01Orientation — what this library is
  2. 02The VDXF object model — version, type, key, data
  3. 03Request, Response and the challenge hash
  4. 04VerifiableSignatureData — a signature that explains itself
  5. 05GenericEnvelope and GenericRequest — flags as a table of contents

13 chapters in full · the index inside the book covers 06–13.

Scope: the book reads verus-typescript-primitives as cloned at 3ffa9d7 on main. Treat branch-specific behaviour as unverified until diffed against the generic-signed-request fork.

FIG. 03Identity Explorer

In development

A neutral view of what identities publish — registrations, content maps, referral chains.

Unlinked in this plate: the target is in development. No address is bound to it yet.

FIG. 04Schemas

To follow

VDXF key namespaces and the payload shapes they carry, in one lookup.

Unlinked in this plate: the schema lookup is to follow.

FIG. 05Elsewhere in the stack