State Types

Basically there are three types of blockchain states: values, rules, and owners.

Type	Content
values	Database values e.g. account balance
rules	Database rules to determine who has value write permissions
owners	Database owners to determine who has ownership to change rules or ownership itself
functions	Database functions triggered by value change

All access APIs and internal data structure for each state type are designed to be separate. For example, they use different root nodes in the internal key-value pair tree structure.