WORM ledger storage architecture

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The WORM ledger storage architecture describes how the platform’s immutable ledger persists data to disk — and why the specific format and write discipline matter for long-term regulatory compliance. The storage layer adopts the C2SP tlog-tiles specification as its fundamental primitive, producing a tile-based, append-only store that remains verifiable and human-readable with standard Unix utilities for at least a century.
The WORM ledger storage architecture describes how the [[worm-ledger-design|platform’s immutable ledger]] persists data to disk — and why the specific format and write discipline matter for long-term regulatory compliance. The storage layer adopts the C2SP tlog-tiles specification as its fundamental primitive per the [[worm-ledger-architecture|four-layer ledger architecture]], producing a tile-based, append-only store that remains verifiable and human-readable with standard Unix utilities for at least a century.

## 1. The tile-based storage engine

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## See also

- [[worm-ledger-architecture]]
- [[worm-ledger-design]]
- [[service-fs-architecture]]
- [[cryptographic-ledgers]]
- [[worm-ledger-architecture]] — the four-layer architectural overview: tile storage, WORM API, wire protocol, anchoring
- [[worm-ledger-design]] — regulatory compliance mapping and customer key sovereignty rationale
- [[service-fs-architecture]] — the `service-fs` implementation that applies this storage architecture in production
- [[cryptographic-ledgers]] — the broader cryptographic ledger context for the C2SP tlog-tiles format