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Introduction
Welcome to the Cadastry documentation. This guide provides detailed information about Cadastry's decentralized metadata management platform. The documentation covers technical specifications, implementation guidelines, and best practices to help you effectively utilize Cadastry's capabilities.
What is Cadastry?
Cadastry is a revolutionary decentralized blockchain platform designed to standardize, secure, and manage metadata for digital and physical assets across various industries. Cadastry aims to create a unified, interoperable layer for metadata management.
Purpose and Vision
- Create a universal standard for asset metadata
- Enable trustless verification of metadata authenticity
- Facilitate seamless asset management across different blockchain ecosystems
- Provide a foundation for next-gen AI with high-quality, verified datasets
- Enhance traceability and accountability in various industries
Key Features
- Decentralized database for permanent metadata storage
- Digital signatures using Ed25519 cryptographic standard
- Flexible data schema based on CIDOC-CRM and Dublin Core standards
- Cross-referencing between documents using unique Cadastry IDs (CDIDs)
- Validation of documents, their structure and signatures
- Evaluation and certification by authorized actors
- Blockchain interoperability through identifiers and data remapping
- Edge storage network of nodes for ultra-fast serving of documents and searches
Why Cadastry?
Cadastry addresses several challenges in the current digital asset landscape:
- Lack of unified dedicated metadata layer for storage
- Desynchronized ontologies and semantics of metadata standards
- Difficulty in verifying digital asset metadata and their authenticity
- Absence of transparent links between tokens and their associated metadata
- Limited searchability of existing metadata files
By solving these issues, Cadastry is poised to transform industries and the whole blockchain space through metadata excellence.
We look at Cadastry as a missing link in evolution of blockchain technology. Layer that will connect and unite real-world and blockchain layers and protocols by taking care of metadata.
Cadastry aims to become the backend for web3.