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Interesting idea, and of course I like the release using the AGPL, but I am trying to wrap my head around the use cases.

Since Freebase was discontinued (not to worry, the data is in WikiData), are crowd funded/contributed Knowledge Graphs really a thing? Company internal Knowledge Graphs tend to be re-built periodically from raw data sources, including materializing implicit relations (speeds up queries). Why the need for blockchain?

Anyway I wish the developers good luck because I think that graph databases are still under appreciated.

EDIT: I see that it is written in Clojure, nice!

Blockchain is a pretty open ended term. Seems in this case they use it to mean a git style history graph.

From https://flur.ee/features/ :

Secure every update with blockchain cryptography in a core immutable ledger.

    Tamper-proof blockchain (SHA3-256) for extreme data integrity
    Complete data traceability throughout history
    Provable audit trail into provenance and path of data
    Digital signatures cryptographically tied to every change