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+# Architecture Overview
+
+This document provides a high-level overview of the Base Node architecture.
+
+## Components
+- Execution layer
+- Networking layer
+- Storage layer
+
+## Design goals
+- Reliability
+- Scalability
+- Security
+
+This document is intentionally high-level and non-exhaustive.