# system

- [Blockchain](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/blockchain.md): The centerpiece of the Joystream Network
- [Account Generation](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/blockchain/account-generation.md): A guide for securely generating keys for the Joystream network.
- [Metaprotocols](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/metaprotocols.md): We are all just here for transaction ordering, the rest is gravy.
- [Staking](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/accounts-and-staking.md): Aligning incentives for the long run
- [Validation](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/validation.md): Maintaining agreement over the growing history of the system.
- [Nomination](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/nomination.md): Deciding who gets to be a validator.
- [Memberships](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/memberships.md)
- [Council](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/council.md): The politically selected governance body responsible for managing the proposal system for the benefit of voters.
- [Working Groups](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/working-groups.md): Working groups organize subcommittees of incentivized and staked contributors around making a subsystem of the platform to work.
- [Proposal System](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/proposal-system.md): The proposal system is the way changes to the platform state and policy are suggested, discussed, voted on by the council, and finalized as accepted or rejected.
- [Content Directory](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/content-directory.md): A public index of all creators, content and metadata.
- [Creator Tokens](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/content-directory/projecttoken.md): Financial and marketing super powers for content creators
- [Creator Payouts](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/content-directory/payout.md): Scaleable governance powered creator payouts
- [Video NFTs](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/content-directory/nft.md): The canonical association to a piece of video content.
- [Curation Model](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/content-directory/curation-model.md): A temporary one page explainer for curators
- [Storage & Bandwidth](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/storage.md): Storing and distributing static assets, such as videos, avatars, covers and attachments, to end users is a key service of the network, and a dedicated subset of actors in the DAO operate dedicated nod
- [Data Directory](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/storage/data-directory.md): An on-chain index of all data stored and distributed in the system, with associated information about ownership and what providers are tasked with storing and providing bandwidth.
- [Storage Node](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/storage/storage-node.md): Storage nodes accept user uploads and do long term archiving of user data objects, as well as share these objects with bandwidth nodes which do low latency last mile on-demand delivery.
- [Bandwidth Node](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/storage/bandwidth-node.md): Bandwidth nodes deliver data objects on-demand to end users at low latency by caching data objects and replicating them from storage providers upon cache misses.
- [Forum](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/forum.md): An immutable, auditable, public forum is the main communication and coordination forum among platform members.
- [Bounties](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/bounties.md): Funding public goods where the community can help with financing, experts can help adjudicate quality of deliverables and service providers have an incentive to find popular initiatives.
- [V2](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/bounties/v2.md): Bounty V2 placeholder article
- [Builders](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/builders.md): At the end of the day, someone actually has to ship something.
- [Human Resources](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/human-resources.md): It starts with people.
- [Marketers](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/marketers.md): Telling the story and sharing the vision.
- [Applications](https://handbook.joystream.org/system/gateways.md): A working group trailblazing path for app builders.


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