Introduction

The Internet was designed to be peer-to-peer. From its origins in DARPA’s research on packet switching — a response to the fragility of circuit-switched networks like telephony — the Internet’s architecture has always favored decentralization.

Protocols such as TCP/IP and SMTP embody this spirit: open, resilient, and without a central authority.
Calimero builds upon that same idea.

What Calimero Is (and Isn’t)

• Calimero is not a blockchain.
• Calimero is an application layer built on top of the network — a place for collaboration, computation, and coordination between peers.
• Where a blockchain would rely on consensus, Calimero uses CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) for distributed consistency without global agreement.

Calimero is the layer you reach for when you don’t need the guarantees (or costs) of consensus — when local autonomy and asynchronous coordination are enough.