CAD008: Compiler

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Puts a full expander + compiler on-chain, so smart contracts can legitimately write and deploy smart contracts using CVM ops as the target IR. Any language that lowers to Convex Lisp or CVM ops becomes a first-class on-chain language — Solidity-style single-language lock-in is structurally avoided.

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CAD009: Expanders and Macros Convex Architecture Documents Brings Dybvig-Friedman-Haynes expansion-passing-style macros on-chain — more general than traditional macro systems and strong enough to host entirely new languages or DSLs inside a single eval. Contract authors can extend the language itself rather than routing around its limits.
CAD026: Convex Lisp Convex Architecture Documents A Clojure-inspired homoiconic Lisp tuned to the CVM's immutable persistent data structures, compiling on-chain and supporting REPL-driven development against a live network. General-purpose languages aren't deterministic enough and Solidity can't express the CVM's richer account model — Lisp is the pragmatic fit.
CAD032: CVX Reader Convex Architecture Documents Defines the textual .cvx syntax via an ANTLR grammar covering CVM literals, data structures, addresses and doubles — an unambiguous print/parse round-trip shared by REPLs, tooling, and file storage. The Lisp equivalent of having a real spec instead of vendor-specific dialects.
CAD013: Metadata Convex Architecture Documents Attaches a structured map to every defined symbol — docstrings, type hints, access flags — readable by tools, IDEs and explorers without a separate registry. Makes on-chain code genuinely self-describing so that wallets and agents can introspect contracts they have never seen before.
CAD001: Convex Architecture Convex Architecture Documents Draws the line between the on-chain CVM (global consensus, root of trust) and the off-chain Lattice (unbounded CRDT data) while forcing them to share one encoding, one hash function, and one cryptographic identity. That shared substrate is what lets value and data flow between layers without the bridges, wrapping, and trust assumptions that fragment other stacks.
CAD002: CVM Values Convex Architecture Documents Mandates that every value on the network is a pure immutable cell in a Merkle DAG — so hashes are stable identities, snapshots are O(1), and untrusted smart contracts can be handed references without defensive copying. This is the data-model prerequisite for everything the lattice does that a mutable-heap blockchain like Ethereum cannot.

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