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DIG Network

DIG Network is a Proof-of-Stake Layer 2 on Chia — a decentralized network for publishing, addressing, and serving content without trusting the host.

These docs cover the network and its primitives: the composable building blocks developers use to build on DIG. The network is still expanding, and more primitives will be documented here over time.

$DIG powers the network

$DIG is the engine and economy of DIG Network. Every value exchange — publishing a capsule, owning a store, tipping a creator — flows through $DIG. Consuming content stays effortless and free: you never pay to read, only to publish and own.

The capsule​

One concept runs through every primitive. A capsule is a single immutable store generation — the pair (storeId, rootHash), written canonically as storeId:rootHash. A store is a sequence of capsules, one per commit (each commit advances the on-chain root and produces a new capsule).

The capsule is the network's unit of:

  • Compilation — each capsule compiles to one fixed-size WASM module (padded so its length leaks nothing about content size).
  • Pricing — a uniform per-capsule price (mint or commit), paid in $DIG at the live rate; a store's lifetime cost is the uniform per-capsule price × the number of capsules.
  • Retrieval — a URN names one capsule (plus an optional resource within it).
  • Caching — a host or browser caches a capsule keyed by storeId:rootHash; the local cache is a set of capsules.
  • Provenance — each capsule's root carries the publisher's BLS signature and a Merkle root.

This is the ecosystem-wide definition: "capsule = (storeId, rootHash)" means the same thing in dig-store, the dig RPC, and the DIG Browser.

Try it

Create your first capsule in DIGHUb ↗ — publish a site in the browser, no CLI required. Each capsule (mint or commit) costs the uniform capsule price in $DIG.

Primitives​

🗄️ dig-store​

The first and most fundamental primitive: a content-addressable, encrypted WASM project format. You point it at a build directory, commit deployments like Git, and get a single self-defending .wasm file that is both your data and the server that gates access to it. The URN is the key — it both locates and decrypts.

→ Explore dig-store

What is dig-store?The one-file idea, in a nutshell
The FormatProjects, deployments, URNs, encryption, proofs
CLI TutorialInstall and use dig-store in your project

🛰️ dig RPC​

The networking primitive: a standard interface for reading content from hosted dig-store deployments. JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTPS POST — every hosting node speaks it identically, so content is portable and clients are node-agnostic. It serves ciphertext + inclusion proofs by retrieval key, whole deployments by (store_id, root), and the public discovery manifest — streamed in chunks, blind by construction, verified and decrypted entirely client-side.

→ Explore the dig RPC

What is the dig RPC?One endpoint for the whole network's read path
Methodsdig.getContent, dig.getCapsule, dig.getManifest, dig.listCapsules, …
StreamingThe chunk model, reassembly, and proof verification
Conformance & SecurityThe blind model, CORS, and what a node must implement

🌐 DIG Browser​

The client primitive: a browser with a built-in Chia wallet. It injects a window.chia provider on every page, so any web app can request the user's address, signatures, and spends with no WalletConnect setup — a drop-in alternative for apps that already speak CHIP-0002. It also resolves chia:// content addresses directly.

→ Build against the DIG Browser

Using window.chia in your appDetect the injected wallet, connect, and call CHIP-0002 methods
Try it

Get the DIG Browser ↗ — download the browser to open chia:// content and use the built-in wallet.

More primitives — settlement and node operation — will get their own sections as they land.

Pick your path​

The docs are organized around what you're doing. Each track opens with a ten-second "why", the mental model you need, and the high-signal how-to — then links into the protocol when you want to go deeper.

New to the vocabulary? Skim Concepts & glossary. Want the full design? Read the Protocol deep-dive.

note

DIG Network and its primitives are open source. dig-store is licensed under GPL-2.0; see the dig-store repository.