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Volition

Volition combines rollup and validium data-availability modes so users or applications can choose where recovery data lives.

FBFenwei BianAuthorSeptember 19, 2026
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Volition is a design in which a system offers both on-chain rollup data availability and off-chain validium data availability. A user or application chooses the mode for a particular asset or state position. The validity proof can cover both modes, but the user's ability to reconstruct state and exit depends on the chosen data-availability path.

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Fenwei Bian

Software Developer & Writer • Namefi
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Fenwei Bian is a software developer in her thirties who spends her working hours in pull requests and her weekends with her hands in soil or sawdust. Years of open source on GitHub taught her that names are interfaces: a good one is clear, honest about what it does, and kind to whoever has to use it next.

She gardens because it rewards patience and punishes wishful thinking, and she does woodwork because a joint either fits or it doesn't. Both habits show up in how she writes about naming — measure twice, check the source, and don't sand over a rough spot and hope no one notices.

For Namefi she writes about how domain markets actually move, the practical trade-offs of tokenizing and flipping names, and picking a domain you'll still be glad you own in twenty years.

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