Renames the project and makes it as easy to adopt as BitLogin, which was the stated bar and which it did not previously meet. Rename (ADR 0005): @nostr-governance/* -> @bitgate/*, governance-* elements -> bitgate-*, createGovernanceRuntime -> createBitGate. "Governance" reads as DAO voting to this audience and named a category rather than a product; BitGate names the benefit and joins the bit- family that BitVid and BitRoad compose with. Domain types keep their names — the product is BitGate, the subject matter is still governance. The migration plan is left as written; this ADR records the change rather than rewriting history. Drop-in distribution (ADR 0006): adopting BitGate meant supplying a transport, authoring a policy, and wiring every element in JavaScript. Now: - createRelayTransport(urls) — WebSocket transport with reconnection, backoff, subscription replay, and cross-relay dedupe - policy presets (social, commerce, admin-only) addressable by name; the engine still carries no thresholds of its own - <bitgate-provider> — configuration in markup, with descendants finding the runtime through a bubbling context event rather than DOM walking, which breaks across shadow boundaries - npm run build:widget — a self-contained dist/bitgate.js That last one came from running it in a browser rather than from a test. Bare specifiers resolve in Node and vitest but not in a browser, so the widget source worked everywhere except a plain static page — the one place it exists to serve. The bundle is not committed: consumers build from reviewed source. Also found by running it: the provider's ready event fires during element upgrade, before a page that defines elements after parsing can attach a listener, so it now exposes `ready` as a promise too. Four bugs fixed along the way, three found by new tests and one by the browser: admin state stayed silent when a roster change altered capabilities but no denials; the relay transport sent every subscription twice on connect; the commerce preset computed a meaningless visibility verdict at checkout and could hide a listing from its own seller; <bitgate-status> threw on an unusable decision. 759 tests; lint, typecheck, and both builds clean.
Commerce proof-of-fit
A marketplace built on nostr-governance, using only the published API.
The point is not to ship marketplace moderation. It is to prove the engine did
not accidentally stay video-specific during extraction: if a commerce consumer
needs a change to @bitgate/core, the abstraction is wrong.
What it demonstrates
The migration plan lists ten behaviors a commerce consumer should show before
1.0.0. Each is a numbered block in
test/proof-of-fit.test.js:
- Seller allowlist mode — unlisted sellers are hidden from discovery, but the allowlist is not enforced at checkout
- Administrative seller denial — takes the seller's whole catalogue down while leaving them their own dashboard view
- Product-address denial — survives the seller republishing under a new event id, and does not touch their other listings
- Exact-event denial — affects only the named revision
- Trusted scam-report downranking — one report reorders, three block checkout; nothing is hidden on a single signal
- Malware checkout denial — one trusted malware report blocks the sale, while three "misleading" reports do not
- Moderator capability checks — a listing moderator cannot deny a seller; a seller moderator cannot deny a listing address
- Community curator ingestion — curated denials are honored, curator contributions beyond their capability are dropped, and the root cannot be denied through a curated list
- Seller-dashboard explanation — the seller sees who reported and why; public surfaces see only counts
- No core changes required — four different verdicts for one product from one snapshot, using only exported functions
Files
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
src/policy.js |
Marketplace thresholds and roles. None of these numbers exist in the core. |
src/adapters.js |
Products, storefronts, reviews, and sellers as governance targets. |
src/marketplace.js |
Feed pipeline, grid ordering, checkout, seller explanation. |
The shape worth copying
A product answers to three targets — its seller, its exact event, and its address coordinate — and the composed decision is the strictest verdict reaching it. That is what makes "deny the seller" remove every listing without a line of cascade logic in the application.
One product, one snapshot, four surfaces:
| Surface | Visibility | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
public-marketplace |
restrict |
deny |
product-detail |
restrict, overridable |
deny |
checkout |
allow |
deny |
seller-dashboard |
restrict, with evidence |
deny |
Reviews deliberately answer to their reviewer and their own event — never to the product they review. Otherwise denying a bad product would silence the reviews warning people about it.
Run it
npm test -- examples/commerce