What is Blurt
Blurt is a social blockchain. Accounts publish posts and comments directly on-chain, and the chain distributes token rewards for content and curation. There is no separate database of record: the blockchain is the content.
Blurt descends from the Graphene / Steem family of chains, so it shares that lineage's account model and JSON-RPC interface — but it runs as its own independent network with its own token, and it replaces Steem's resource-credit system with witness-set fees (see below).
Everything people actually use — feeds, wallets, rewards, communities — is built on top of that on-chain data by the components documented in this manual:
- a consensus node, blurtd, holds and advances the chain;
- a social layer, nexus-go, turns raw chain data into feeds, threads and communities;
- an RPC proxy presents the chain and the services as a single endpoint;
- a fast wallet indexer serves account history;
- and the front-ends — condenser (the web app) and the wallet — render it all for people.
What makes Blurt distinct
Within the Graphene/Steem family, Blurt makes some deliberate choices:
- No downvotes.
- No stablecoin — the liquid token is BLURT; staked ("powered up") weight is held as VESTS, which carry governance weight and reward shares.
- Witness-set fees, not resource credits. Acting on-chain costs a small BLURT fee set by the witnesses (a flat fee per operation plus a per-kilobyte component) — Blurt does not use Steem/Hive-style Resource Credits.
- A regent account with a large but steadily decaying stake (to zero over two years) that can vote on witnesses and proposals without affecting supply, inflation, or the reward pool.
Consensus is DPoS: elected witnesses produce blocks roughly every three seconds. For the full picture see blurtd.