ecosystem

Orientation in the Convex ecosystem — what lives in which repository, where the specs and docs are, and which client libraries exist. Use when you need context…

The Convex Ecosystem

Convex is a lattice-based decentralised network and execution platform. Data merges like CRDTs rather than forming a linear chain, consensus is Convergent Proof of Stake (CPoS), and the CVM is a lambda-calculus virtual machine for functional smart contracts.

This repository (Convex-Dev/convex) is the reference implementation. Several things an agent needs are deliberately not here.

Where Things Live

What	Where
Reference implementation — CVM, consensus, peer, CLI, tooling	`Convex-Dev/convex` (this repo)
CADs — normative specifications	`Convex-Dev/design`, under `docs/cad/`
Glossary and tutorials	`Convex-Dev/design`, under `docs/tutorial/`
Rendered docs	`https://docs.convex.world`

The design repository is the authority on what Convex should do; this repository is what it currently does. When they disagree, one of them has a bug — see the cad-reference skill for how to find the governing CAD.

Do not assume design is checked out locally. Use https://docs.convex.world unless you have confirmed the repository is present alongside this one.

Module Map

The 14 Maven modules are listed in AGENTS.md with their purposes, and each has its own README.md. In short: convex-core holds the CVM, consensus and Etch; convex-peer the networking, including the NodeServer; convex-cli, convex-gui and convex-restapi the interfaces; convex-p2p the P2P node stack, whose P2PNode runs a NodeServer.

Client Libraries

Language	Repository
Java	`convex-java` module in this repo
Clojure	`Convex-Dev/convex.cljc`
TypeScript	`Convex-Dev/convex.ts`
Python	`Convex-Dev/convex-api-py`

Prefer the in-repo convex-java module for JVM integration — it is versioned with the network implementation.

Networks

Protonet (production): peer.convex.live
Testnets are used for tooling and experimentation; the endpoint in use is recorded in AGENTS.md under Network Defaults.

Anything you deploy to Protonet is real. Confirm the target network before any transaction, and prefer a local network for development — see the local-network skill.

Terminology

Convex has its own vocabulary and it is not interchangeable with blockchain terminology. Never substitute "gas", "fees", "blockchain", "chain", "miner", "validator", "block", "wei", "satoshi" or "mainnet".

Use: CVM coin, Copper, Juice, Peer, Actor, Lattice, CPoS, Belief, Etch, CAD, CNS, Protonet. The canonical glossary is at https://docs.convex.world/docs/tutorial/glossary — check it rather than guessing at a translation.

Related Projects

The ecosystem page at https://docs.convex.world lists community projects, wallets, demos and integrations. Treat that list as the current source; entries here would go stale.