A “mainnet” in the context of the Baseline Protocol is an always-on public utility — serving as a state machine — that sacrifices speed, scalability and fast finality for tamper- and censorship-resistant consensus. Because the mainnet is a permanent public ledger, any encrypted information recorded there can be observed by anyone at any time, forever. This includes parties with the means and know-how to perform advanced analytics, identifying patterns that may reveal strategic intelligence without even decrypting the data itself.