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-# Silk, A Silky Smooth Implementation of the Loom Architecture
+# Silk, a silky smooth implementation of the Loom specification
 
 Loom is a new achitecture for a high performance blockchain. Its whitepaper boasts a theoretical
 throughput of 710k transactions per second on a 1 gbps network. The first implementation of the