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# 5.3 - Application Layer & Operator Tooling

The application layer bridges consensus finality with user-facing functionality and institutional workflows:

* **Full Node Binary:** Participates in consensus, processes linearized transactions, enforces native compliance rules, and serves RPC/REST APIs.
* **Wallet CLI:** Command-line interface for account creation, Dilithium-signed transaction submission, and multi-asset management.
* **Block Explorer & REST API:** Web-based explorer with structured endpoints for querying blocks, transactions, balances, and CBARE (asset registry) entries. Includes per-IP rate limiting and request validation for DDoS protection.
* **Blockchain State Manager:** Applies ordered transactions to the native state machine, updating account balances, enforcing transfer restrictions, and committing state roots deterministically.


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