Distributed vs Distributed Ledger

Distributed refers to a system where components, data, or control are spread across multiple independent locations or participants rather than concentrated in a single central authority, enabling resilience, redundancy, and elimination of single points of failure.

A distributed ledger is a database that is shared, replicated, and synchronized across multiple locations, institutions, or participants, with no central administrator, allowing transparent and immutable record-keeping through consensus among network participants.