The dataset policy served PROPOSED, decision pending (a first step proposed at 4 GiB; the 5.5 GiB rows the costed alternative) on the litepaper, the facts row, the Mine pages and the manifest
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<div class="bar"><i></i><i></i><i></i><b>Prove</b></div>
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<img src="/img/app-prove-dark.webp" width="2880" height="1800" class="img-dark" alt="The Prove page of the current build: the shard card, your card proved shard 3 of block 160,390 for 1.15 IGN; the Prove on this machine switch on, one sentence for the Apple M5 Max, which proves on the CPU slowly; one line of counts, and Details" loading="lazy" decoding="async">
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<img src="/img/app-prove-light.webp" width="2880" height="1800" class="img-light" alt="The Prove page of the current build in light mode: the shard card and the Prove on this machine switch" loading="lazy" decoding="async">
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<figcaption>The current build, rendered from the recorded state of the team’s Apple M5 Max, 7 October 2026. Apple silicon proves on the CPU, slowly; a 16 GB NVIDIA card is the line for proving beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; the first step sits at 4 GiB, where the miner holds less and the rule is not yet measured), and an 8 GB or 12 GB card time-shares with the miner paused (measured 8 October 2026).</figcaption>
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<figcaption>The current build, rendered from the recorded state of the team’s Apple M5 Max, 7 October 2026. Apple silicon proves on the CPU, slowly; a 16 GB NVIDIA card is the line for proving beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; a first step at 4 GiB is proposed and pending decision, where the miner would hold less and the rule is not yet measured), and an 8 GB or 12 GB card time-shares with the miner paused (measured 8 October 2026).</figcaption>
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<div class="eyebrow">05 · Prove</div>
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<h2>One switch. The same card proves.</h2>
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<p>Every block is turned into a short proof, in pieces called shards. Your cards prove the shards the chain assigns to them and earn IGN for each one.</p>
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<li><strong>One sentence per card</strong>What it can prove and how. NVIDIA proves, AMD and Apple mine; a 16 GB card mines and proves together at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the first step sits at 4 GiB, not yet measured), an 8 GB or 12 GB card time-shares with the miner paused; on the stock server a 24 GB card proves the full shard and a 32 GB card mines and proves at once.</li>
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<li><strong>One sentence per card</strong>What it can prove and how. NVIDIA proves, AMD and Apple mine; a 16 GB card mines and proves together at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (a first step at 4 GiB is proposed, pending decision, not yet measured), an 8 GB or 12 GB card time-shares with the miner paused; on the stock server a 24 GB card proves the full shard and a 32 GB card mines and proves at once.</li>
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<li><strong>One line of counts</strong>Assigned, proven, paid, IGN. Details holds the verifier, the program id and the segments.</li>
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<h3 id="chip-model">The chip model</h3>
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<p><b>Igneum remains competitive on accessible commodity GPUs even when specialised mining hardware is assumed to exist, remain compatible and seek profit; its security does not rely on identifying that hardware or retiring it through emergency changes.</b> Class v6 adopts the 64-register window and retains it across every rotation. Current modelling estimates a 1.5x to 3.1x energy-efficiency advantage for the specialised designs assessed as complete machines against the GPU tier, from a board on commodity DRAM at 1.5x to an SRAM-store die at 3.1x (1.5x to 2.3x on the GPU's own node). The long-program and select-tree proposals were rejected. Economic resistance depends on development cost, deployment economics and productive hardware lifetime; family transitions receive an obsolescence benefit only where a loss of competitiveness is demonstrated; programmable multi-epoch designs are included in the assessment.</p>
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<p><b>The labels.</b> MODELLED. The GPU side is measured (the RTX 5090 at its 1,300 MHz lock on class v4, 8 October 2026). The chip’s core is placed and routed on ASAP7 with SRAM macros and scaled on claimed node factors; the chip’s memory and the rest of the machine (controller, host share, PSU, VRM, cooling) are modelled; no chip is measured, and the chip’s hardware cost is approximate within 2x. Beside it the coexistence verdict at these energies: the DRAM board passes six of the model’s seven conditions, the hybrid coexists only in a growing chain at cheap GPU electricity, the SRAM die fails the cost, hardware, fleet and margin conditions at its reconciled machine cost, and only private supply in a growing network coexists. The k lane’s own placed row amends the figures if it differs. The GPU side is measured: an RTX 5080 at its 1,100 MHz core lock, 2.06 microjoules per hash, and an RTX 5090 at its 1,300 MHz lock, 2.33 microjoules per hash, both under class v4, on the project’s own rigs and rented pods, 8 October 2026; the card’s cost of the window is measured too (a rented RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 at stock, 8 October 2026: within 5 percent per load with the liveness chain, no register spill). The chip side is synthesised and claimed: the clock-gated sequencer core with the 64-register window on ASAP7, scaled to N3 on the foundry’s headline factors (k about 0.37 at N3 and 0.51 node for node for the base core, the gated window adding about 0.13 of k against an adversary with a flop register file; the window’s liveness measured at 61 of 64 values necessary, its cost to the card measured under 5 percent); the window’s k is synthesis-derived and not a lower bound, and the multi-family adversary lane’s first core (its state in a macro) reads the window’s defence as close to nothing, a disagreement between two models that the placed rows settle. The chip’s memory is modelled: the GDDR7 board of the chip model. The placed gated figure is expected near 2.6x to 3.1x a node ahead and 2.3x to 2.7x node for node (approximate) and is served when its row lands.</p>
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<p><b>The dataset policy.</b> The dataset’s size is a one-off hardware ticket on specialised designs and a running energy tax on commodity cards: at the proposed 5.5 GiB a locked Blackwell card pays about 14 percent more energy per hash, over the 10 percent budget, while the board on commodity DRAM pays nothing and the SRAM designs pay a hardware cost that does not change their outcome; so the first step sits at 4 GiB, inside the budget, and later steps are taken only when the chain’s own state outgrows them, not on a calendar. (the card rows measured: an RTX 5090 at its 1,300 MHz lock on the project’s own rig and a rented 5090 at stock, 8 October 2026; the chip tickets modelled and approximate; later steps’ costs expected, not measured.)</p>
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<p><b>The dataset policy (PROPOSED; decision pending).</b> First step proposed at 4 GiB inside the budget; the 5.5 GiB rows are the costed alternative; decision pending. The reasoning: The dataset’s size is a one-off hardware ticket on specialised designs and a running energy tax on commodity cards: at the proposed 5.5 GiB a locked Blackwell card pays about 14 percent more energy per hash, over the 10 percent budget, while the board on commodity DRAM pays nothing and the SRAM designs pay a hardware cost that does not change their outcome; so the first step sits at 4 GiB, inside the budget, and later steps are taken only when the chain’s own state outgrows them, not on a calendar. (the card rows measured: an RTX 5090 at its 1,300 MHz lock on the project’s own rig and a rented 5090 at stock, 8 October 2026; the chip tickets modelled and approximate; later steps’ costs expected, not measured.)</p>
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<p>Three statements, kept separate. The baseline is the hash as it stands under the scoring rule; rotation is an optional improvement to that baseline, not the mechanism the claim rests on.</p>
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<div class="tbl"><table><thead><tr><th>Statement</th><th>What it says</th><th>Label and date</th></tr></thead><tbody>
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<tr><td>Energy resistance</td><td>Per machine against a locked RTX 5090, node for node and a node ahead: the DRAM board 1.5x to 1.6x (1.3x to 1.7x) and 1.8x; the board with SRAM holding the hottest half of the dataset 1.9x to 2.1x and 2.4x to 2.6x; the SRAM-store die 2.3x and 3.1x; across the adversary’s lane-count choice the same-node bracket is 1.5x to 2.1x and a node ahead 1.8x to 2.6x, so about 2x on the same node stands at the bracket’s top; per dollar of hardware at list price 3x to 6x (modelled on the placed full 18-family core, routed 8 October 2026, and the 32-lane core’s synthesis). The honest tier moves to the next node with every GPU generation; a chip must tape out again. Whole machine per tier (synthesis with the SRAM band and node factors, claimed; placed rows to follow): the complete GDDR7 machine about 1.8x the RTX 5090 at its lock per joule node for node and 2.1x a node ahead; 1.6x and 1.9x the RTX 5080; 2.8x and 3.3x the Ada, Ampere and RX 9070 XT cohort; about 1.5x the Apple tier, reported, never headlined.</td><td>MODELLED: placed and routed core energies against the measured RTX 5090 lock row, 8 October 2026, no chip measured</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Light verification</td><td>256 MB cache on a CPU, milliseconds</td><td>256 MB cache on a CPU (512 MB from year 4), one warp under 10 ms, the gate. Measured 2.1 ms on one Apple M5 Max core for class v3 (3.4x class v2's 0.61 ms); a 2019-class core not yet</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Changes over time</td><td>None. A fixed design, unchanged for seven years</td><td>A new program every hour, its memory pattern with it; era draws and reserved families on a schedule fixed at genesis. Nobody touches it</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Seed grinding</td><td>Not applicable, the program comes from the hash input</td><td>Closed by a verifiable delay between seed and program</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Useful work</td><td>None. Hashing only</td><td>NVIDIA cards prove: from 8 GB alone on the patched server, 16 GB and up beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; the first step sits at 4 GiB, where the miner holds less and the rule is not yet measured), 8 and 12 GB cards time-sharing with the miner paused, 24 GB on the stock server (measured on rented cards, 6 and 8 October 2026). Selling proofs to other chains is Designed, not built. AMD and Apple cards mine and do not prove; a prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Useful work</td><td>None. Hashing only</td><td>NVIDIA cards prove: from 8 GB alone on the patched server, 16 GB and up beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; a first step at 4 GiB is proposed and pending decision, where the miner would hold less and the rule is not yet measured), 8 and 12 GB cards time-sharing with the miner paused, 24 GB on the stock server (measured on rented cards, 6 and 8 October 2026). Selling proofs to other chains is Designed, not built. AMD and Apple cards mine and do not prove; a prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Track record</td><td>About seven years with one shipped chip, Bitmain’s Antminer X5 (September 2023), at 1.46x per joule over a desktop CPU; the one announced beyond it, Bitmain’s Antminer X9, was withdrawn in May 2026 with zero units; RandomX v2 released 25 March 2026, activation pending</td><td>Zero years. Every number above is measured and logged with the commands that produced it. The specification, reference hash, test vectors and simulators are public now (git.igneum.network/igneum-network/spec). The node, the miner and the wallet follow to the same host as the repository is published</td></tr>
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<p>The size of that third stream today, in numbers: all of Ethereum L1's proving is about USD 36 a day at the September 2026 tracker cost (USD 0.005 a block, 7,200 blocks a day; the tracker figure is a secondary source), against about USD 13,700 a day of Igneum's year-1 emission at USD 0.005 per IGN (31.688 IGN a block, 86,400 blocks a day; the price is an input, not a forecast). So external proving is a small second income at launch and the lottery pays the bills; for proving to become the main income the paid demand would have to grow about 1,000x in dollars (the chip and economy analysis of 6 October 2026, section 3.11; ledger E19).</p>
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<p>The honest bear-market case rests on cost. A miner's card is already running and the power is often domestic, so Igneum miners' electricity cost in the proving market is close to power. The price they must charge is another matter: the price a prover must charge is the subsidy it forgoes while it proves, which falls as one over network hash, so the edge over data-centre provers appears only once the network's hash is large (near 100 GH/s for a card proving beside its miner) and is nothing more. Which of the two in-chain streams pays more per GPU-second depends on the size of the fleet: measured on 4 October 2026, three machines at 275 million hashes a second, a second of hashing paid about 4.9x a second of proving the pool share; at 10,000 cards the same arithmetic favours proving by about 930x. That is arithmetic on measured devnet rates, approximate, not a market measurement.</p>
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<h3>Hardware</h3>
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<p>The dataset starts at 2 GB and grows (the proposed schedule, fixed at genesis: 2 GB, doubling at years 4, 12 and 28, the average of half a gigabyte a year), so a 4 GB card mines for about four years and an 8 GB card for about twelve, approximate. NVIDIA cards prove: from 8 GB alone on the patched server, 16 GB and up beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; the first step sits at 4 GiB, where the miner holds less and the rule is not yet measured), 8 and 12 GB cards time-sharing with the miner paused, 24 GB on the stock server (measured on rented cards, 6 and 8 October 2026). NVIDIA and AMD cards both mine, because the mining program is generated for the architecture both share; only NVIDIA cards prove today. Apple's chips are GPUs with unified memory, so Macs mine too, at about a fifth of a flagship card: Measured, 26.7 against 123 million hashes a second, an Apple M5 Max beside an RTX 5090, mining side by side, 4 October 2026. A Mac is a poor miner per dollar. There is no CPU mining lane, on purpose, because CPU mining is what botnets farm. Nodes, wallets and exchanges need no GPU at all.</p>
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<p>The dataset starts at 2 GB and grows (the proposed schedule, fixed at genesis: 2 GB, doubling at years 4, 12 and 28, the average of half a gigabyte a year), so a 4 GB card mines for about four years and an 8 GB card for about twelve, approximate. NVIDIA cards prove: from 8 GB alone on the patched server, 16 GB and up beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; a first step at 4 GiB is proposed and pending decision, where the miner would hold less and the rule is not yet measured), 8 and 12 GB cards time-sharing with the miner paused, 24 GB on the stock server (measured on rented cards, 6 and 8 October 2026). NVIDIA and AMD cards both mine, because the mining program is generated for the architecture both share; only NVIDIA cards prove today. Apple's chips are GPUs with unified memory, so Macs mine too, at about a fifth of a flagship card: Measured, 26.7 against 123 million hashes a second, an Apple M5 Max beside an RTX 5090, mining side by side, 4 October 2026. A Mac is a poor miner per dollar. There is no CPU mining lane, on purpose, because CPU mining is what botnets farm. Nodes, wallets and exchanges need no GPU at all.</p>
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<h3>What a miner's hour looks like</h3>
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<p>The card hashes the lottery continuously. On an NVIDIA card, when the client sees a shard it can win (or, once the job market is built, an external job), it switches the card to proving for a few seconds, posts the proof, and goes back to hashing. The client does the switching and the miner sees one balance.</p>
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<p>The protocol carries no fee: no dev fund, no cut to any team. Ember, the miner software, takes an optional 1% dev fee, the way other GPU miners do. One block template in 100 is requested with the dev address instead of yours, by a counter, not a random draw, so it is exactly 1 in 100 and anyone can check it from the source or from the chain. One flag turns it off (<code>--dev-fee 0</code>, a switch in the app, a line in the HiveOS config). The miner prints the fee and the address when it starts. Any other client is welcome.</p>
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<details><summary>Does this website use my GPU to mine?</summary><p>No. The pictures on the home page are drawn, not mined. Mining happens only in the app you install, and only when you press Start.</p></details>
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<details><summary>Does my card mine and prove?</summary><p>Every card mines. NVIDIA proves; AMD and Apple mine. Mining and proving together needs a 16 GB NVIDIA card at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; the first step sits at 4 GiB, where the miner holds less and the rule is not yet measured) (the miner about 6.1 GiB, a compressed proof about 7.5 GiB at its peak); an 8 GB or 12 GB card time-shares, the app pausing the miner for the proof; on the stock server the full shard needs 24 GB and a 32 GB card does both at once (measured, 6 and 8 October 2026). Apple silicon proves on the CPU, slowly. The Prove page of the app says in one sentence what your card can do.</p></details>
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<details><summary>Does my card mine and prove?</summary><p>Every card mines. NVIDIA proves; AMD and Apple mine. Mining and proving together needs a 16 GB NVIDIA card at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; a first step at 4 GiB is proposed and pending decision, where the miner would hold less and the rule is not yet measured) (the miner about 6.1 GiB, a compressed proof about 7.5 GiB at its peak); an 8 GB or 12 GB card time-shares, the app pausing the miner for the proof; on the stock server the full shard needs 24 GB and a 32 GB card does both at once (measured, 6 and 8 October 2026). Apple silicon proves on the CPU, slowly. The Prove page of the app says in one sentence what your card can do.</p></details>
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<details><summary>Is the devnet paying real money?</summary><p>No. Devnet coins have no value and the chain may reset. The app’s pounds row reads 0.00 on devnet and says why. The Igneum 2.0 devnet is the network today. Mainnet has not started.</p></details>
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<details id="fee-faq"><summary>Is there a fee?</summary><p>Not in the protocol: no dev fund, no fee to any team. The app takes an optional 1% software fee, the norm for GPU miners, and one flag turns it off. <a href="#fee">The fee, in full view.</a></p></details>
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<details><summary>Can I run it on a rig or in a pool?</summary><p>The Linux and HiveOS tarball is above, with the flight sheet. Today every machine mines solo on its own keys, and a card runs several.</p></details>
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<tr><td>Light verification</td><td>256 MB cache on a CPU, milliseconds</td><td>256 MB cache on a CPU (512 MB from year 4), one warp under 10 ms, the gate. Measured 2.1 ms on one Apple M5 Max core for class v3 (3.4x class v2's 0.61 ms); a 2019-class core not yet</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Changes over time</td><td>None. A fixed design, unchanged for seven years</td><td>A new program every hour, its memory pattern with it; era draws and reserved families on a schedule fixed at genesis. Nobody touches it</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Seed grinding</td><td>Not applicable, the program comes from the hash input</td><td>Closed by a verifiable delay between seed and program</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Useful work</td><td>None. Hashing only</td><td>NVIDIA cards prove: from 8 GB alone on the patched server, 16 GB and up beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; the first step sits at 4 GiB, where the miner holds less and the rule is not yet measured), 8 and 12 GB cards time-sharing with the miner paused, 24 GB on the stock server (measured on rented cards, 6 and 8 October 2026). Selling proofs to other chains is Designed, not built. AMD and Apple cards mine and do not prove; a prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Useful work</td><td>None. Hashing only</td><td>NVIDIA cards prove: from 8 GB alone on the patched server, 16 GB and up beside the miner at the proposed 5.5 GiB dataset (the costed alternative; a first step at 4 GiB is proposed and pending decision, where the miner would hold less and the rule is not yet measured), 8 and 12 GB cards time-sharing with the miner paused, 24 GB on the stock server (measured on rented cards, 6 and 8 October 2026). Selling proofs to other chains is Designed, not built. AMD and Apple cards mine and do not prove; a prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Track record</td><td>About seven years with one shipped chip, Bitmain’s Antminer X5 (September 2023), at 1.46x per joule over a desktop CPU; the one announced beyond it, Bitmain’s Antminer X9, was withdrawn in May 2026 with zero units; RandomX v2 released 25 March 2026, activation pending</td><td>Zero years. Every number above is measured and logged with the commands that produced it. The specification, reference hash, test vectors and simulators are public now (git.igneum.network/igneum-network/spec). The node, the miner and the wallet follow to the same host as the repository is published</td></tr>
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"size": "1 GiB on the devnets (2^24 items at the genesis size)",
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"keyed_by": "the execution state after the epoch's reference block (class v5)",
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"cache": "256 MiB day cache (class v3 lineage)",
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"growth": "the first step sits at 4 GiB, inside the 10 percent GPU-cost budget, and later steps are taken only when the chain's own state outgrows them, not on a calendar (the design's dataset policy, 8 October 2026); the 5.5 / 8.5 / 11.5 GiB figures are the costed alternative in the sensitivity workbook; no growth step is set on the Igneum 2.0 devnet (2^24 items at 1 GiB)"
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"growth": "PROPOSED, decision pending: a first step at 4 GiB inside the 10 percent GPU-cost budget, later steps only when the chain's own state outgrows them, not on a calendar (the design's dataset policy, 8 October 2026); the 5.5 / 8.5 / 11.5 GiB figures are the costed alternative in the sensitivity workbook; no growth step is set on the Igneum 2.0 devnet (2^24 items at 1 GiB)"
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