Commercio Developers Guide

# 1.1 The Documents Blockchain

Commercio.network is an OPEN SOURCE PROJECT (opens new window) that gives companies the ability to sign and exchange documents using the blockchain technology and guarantee:

  • Paternity the document was created by the declared sender
  • Non-repudiation the sender cannot deny having digitally signed the document
  • Integrity the document has not been altered during transport

There are two main groups of business documents:

  • Structured: Mostly XMl (Invoices, orders, order confirmations etc)
  • Unstructured: Mostly PDF (Contracts, forms, letters etc)

The network is organized through an international consortium (opens new window) of 100 independent companies. Any company, especially yours, is welcome to join the consortium and take advantage of the next decade technology... Today.

The Commercio.network is called The Documents Blockchain™ because it focuses on solving one core business problem : Legally Exchanging and signing business documents.

# Mission

Our mission is to spread the blockchain technology to worldwide companies with a bold adoption plan:

  • 100 Node validators companies to onboard...
  • 100.000 IT companies to onboard...
  • 100.000.000 companies on the blockchain.

We want to provide every IT Company in the world a simple, fast, profitable way to create value for them and their end customers with:

  • the vision
  • the skills
  • the core technology
  • the network of validators
  • the developer tools

We have removed the underlying complexity of implementing a Blockchain project by defining a three layer approach.

  • APPLICATION LAYER: where IT companies build apps for solving users problems.
  • NETWORKING LAYER: where the companies run the blockchain network nodes.
  • PROTOCOL LAYER: where the basic 9 Core Functions are implemented on the node.

# The 9 Core Functions

Our Blockchain core Node software has a group of "Smart Contracts" focused on the documents world:

  • CommercioAccount (Done) : Enable users account and access
  • CommercioID (Done): Enable users self sovereign identity
  • CommercioDocs (Done): Enable users to exchange business documents
  • CommercioSign (Done): Enable users to sign business documents
  • CommercioMint (Done): Enable users to create Blockchain Tokens
  • CommercioDex (Next) : Enable users to exchange Blockchain Tokens
  • CommercioPay (Next) : Enable users to get Invoices payments
  • CommercioScore (Next) : Enable users to get a credit rating score
  • CommercioDAO (Next) : Enable users to manage decentralized governance

1.2 What is a Blockchain? →