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Explanation

This section is for the questions that don't fit a narrative chapter: the why behind design choices, and the answers to the questions that come up most often.

Pages

  • Architecture decisions


    The why behind the key design choices: RISC-V, Molecule, static committee first, single-chunk court path, no permissionless validators today.

  • FAQ


    Answers to the questions that come up most often, from "what's a Cell?" to "is Myelin production-ready?"

What "explanation" means here

The Myelin docs have a layered structure:

  • Concepts — the primitives (Cell, CKB-VM, Myelin).
  • Architecture — how Myelin is built.
  • Interactions — how Myelin talks to L1 / L2 / off-chain.
  • Operations — how to run Myelin.
  • Security — what Myelin proves.

The Explanation section sits across those layers. It's for context that doesn't fit one place — the design rationale, the common misconceptions, the answers that take more than a few sentences.