Glossary

Admin. The account that manages a Home: passkeys, models, updates and security. The first account on a Home is the admin.

App. A program in Home, such as Chat or Library. Developers call a packaged App a capsule.

Capsule. A complete, signed package of an App, content or a service. It is named by the hash of its contents, so any change gives it a new name. Apps and capsules

Carrier. The ElastOS network layer. It connects Homes directly and encrypts the connection. Carrier and Community

CID. A content identifier: a name made from the hash of the content itself.

Community. The shared room that every Home joins by default. It lets people find each other and talk.

Contact. Someone who accepted your request, or whose request you accepted. Direct messages and file sharing are only between contacts.

DID. A decentralized identifier. A name for a person or device that they control with their own keys, with no company in the middle. Identity

Device DID. The DID of one Home on one computer. It starts with did:key.

ELA. The native token of Elastos, merge-mined with Bitcoin. Blockchain and ELA

Elacity Exchange. The market between ElastOS Homes. If ElastOS is your home, Elacity is the shop: a protocol for trade from computer to computer. Elacity Exchange

Elastos DAO. The community governance of Elastos. ELA holders elect its council, which funds ElastOS.

Elastos Smart Chain (ESC). The Elastos chain for smart contracts that work like Ethereum’s.

Essentials. The separate Elastos mobile wallet. It is not the Wallet App in Home.

Guest. An account that someone creates on your Home when you turn on Guest access.

Home. Your ElastOS desktop, in your web browser at http://localhost:8090/home/.

Inbox. The App where Home asks for your decision.

Maintainer DID. The DID that signs ElastOS releases. Your Home accepts only releases signed by it.

Passkey. How you sign in, with Touch ID, a phone or a security key. There is no password to steal.

PC2. ElastOS v1, the proof of concept. ElastOS in stages

Profile DID. Your personal DID. You share it so people can add you.

Provider. A background service that does one kind of work for the Runtime, such as storage, AI models or blockchain access.

Public. An optional listing that lets Community members find your Profile. Off by default.

Recovery Kit. A file that holds your Profile, your Home’s recovery authority and your built-in Wallet keys. It does not hold your files. Data and backup

Runtime. The trusted core of ElastOS. Apps must ask it before they act. Written in Rust.

Update channel. Which releases your Home accepts: Stable or Test. Releases and updates

World Computer. Millions of personal computers, each owned by its user, that work together like one computer. The mission