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# Tenets of Neuron

Neuron’s core tenets—Discover, Connect, Pay, and Protect—create a seamless peer network. Discover locates peers for transactions; Connect builds reliable communication streams; Pay secures financial transactions; Protect verifies interactions without compromising privacy, ensuring security and fairness.

* **Discover**: Facilitate the discovery of peers, ensuring buyers, sellers, and validators can find each other.
* **Connect**: Enable bidirectional communication channels (streams) between peers, even when they are initially unknown to each other.
* **Pay**: Handle seamless, secure money transfers between data providers (sellers) and data consumers (buyers).
* **Protect**: Allow validators to monitor and verify streams to ensure adherence to a Service License Agreement (SLA) written in business language, all without compromising the privacy of participants.