Reference

Decot Glossary

Bite-size explanations of every key concept—ideal for first-time Web3 readers and busy legal teams.

A – D

Audit Trail: A chronological list of every contract event—drafts, approvals, signatures—anchored immutably on Sui for tamper-proof evidence.
Blockchain (Sui): The Layer-1 network Decot uses. Sui’s object-centric design stores each contract as its own on-chain “object”, enabling parallel execution and sub-second finality.
Contract Object: The on-chain representation of a legal agreement. Holds metadata, state (Draft → Executed), and pointers (hashes) to the encrypted document in Walrus.
Decot Drive: Your in-app file cabinet—encrypted documents, templates and attachments stored in Walrus and indexed for easy reuse.

Encryption (Client-Side): Files are sealed in your browser before upload; the plaintext never touches Decot servers.
Gas Fee: Micro-payment (fractions of a cent on Sui) paid to record an on-chain transaction. Decot subsidises standard user actions.
Hash: A one-way fingerprint of a file. Any change to the document produces a new hash, making tampering instantly detectable.

Immutable Ledger: Property of blockchains where past transactions can’t be altered—critical for evidentiary weight.
Move: A safe, resource-oriented smart-contract language used by Sui. Prevents many bugs common in Solidity, like re-entrancy.
NFT Notarisation: Optional post-signature feature: mint the executed contract as a non-transferable NFT so only the signers own a provably unique record.

Object (Crypto): Fundamental unit of state on Sui. Each has an owner, unique ID and version history—perfect for modelling contracts.
Off-Chain / On-Chain: Data heavy or private ⇒ encrypted off-chain (Walrus). Proofs, hashes and state changes ⇒ lightweight on-chain (Sui).
Qualified Electronic Ledger: New eIDAS 2.0 category for blockchains that meet strict security & audit criteria. Decot targets conformity assessment in 2026.
SEAL (Secrets Management): Mysten Labs protocol that ties decryption keys to on-chain policies—only authorised wallets can unwrap contract files.
Decot Custom ZK Login: Decot authentication flow that uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify access in three simple steps without wallet-extension setup.
Smart Contract: Program running on Sui (written in Move) that automates state changes—e.g., flips status to Executed after signatures.

Walrus: Decentralised, S3-compatible storage network in the Sui ecosystem—stores your encrypted documents redundantly across nodes.
Workflow: The sequence of draft → review → approval → execution steps you configure for each contract in Decot.
zkLogin: Zero-knowledge login method that proves control of a Web2 account (Google, Microsoft…) while keeping your identity off the blockchain.
Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP): Cryptographic trick that lets you prove a statement (e.g., “Clause 12 exists”) without revealing the clause itself—core to Decot’s privacy model.