A growing, free collection of short educational articles explaining the concepts behind the Flare networks technology — from the foundations to the specific ideas. Browse by category below, or start with the foundations and work your way up.
A clear explanation of what a Layer-1 platform is, what it does, and why it matters as the foundation of a decentralised system.
Read →An educational overview of decentralisation: what it means, how it works, and the trade-offs involved in distributing control across many participants.
Read →What a node is, what nodes do, and why a network of many independent nodes underpins a decentralised system.
Read →A plain-language guide to consensus: how many independent participants come to agree on a single shared version of events.
Read →What an oracle is in the context of decentralised systems, why oracles are needed, and how they deliver trustworthy outside information.
Read →An accessible explanation of interoperability — the ability of separate systems to understand and work with one another.
Read →An overview of what a data protocol is and how the Flare networks use built-in protocols to deliver and verify information.
Read →A focused explanation of the Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO): what it is, what “time series” means, and how it stays reliable.
Read →A focused explanation of the Flare Data Connector (FDC): what it does and how it lets applications confirm that an event happened elsewhere.
Read →What attestation means in a decentralised system and why “many participants vouch for this” is a cornerstone of trust.
Read →Begin with the Foundations articles — Layer-1, decentralisation, nodes and consensus — then move on to the Data category.
Start with "Layer-1 platform"