Devlog #15: Persistence — a deep dive
What does it mean for the world to persist? State, recovery, and the things we don't want to lose. Technical but readable. We're sharing this because persistence is the thing we care about most.
State. Everything that happened in the world—where you went, what you built, who you met—lives in our systems. Not in a save file on your machine. On our side. That means we own the responsibility of not losing it. Replication, failover, defined recovery—we know what we restore and how far we're willing to roll back. When the world never stops, state is the most precious thing we have.
Recovery. When something goes wrong—and it will—we need to restore to a known-good state without rolling back the world so far that we erase real progress. That's a backup and restore story, but it's also a design story: what counts as "good"? How do we make recovery legible so we're not guessing?
Identity and the long game
Identities and assets accumulate value over years. If we're building a world that lasts decades, we have to think about security and identity on that timeline. That means crypto-agile design—the ability to rotate algorithms and upgrade security without breaking the ecosystem. It also means designing for the day when today's crypto might not be enough. We're not publishing a timeline, but we're building with one in mind. Persistence isn't just "data survives." It's "trust survives."