litepaper: Ember, the wallet, and the live devnet state as of 5 October 2026
New sections "Ember, the miner" (features, the six levers with state and measurement, the software dev fee, what Ember does not claim) and "The wallet" (Igneum Wallet 0.1.1) after "For miners". "Igneum at a glance" gains the live devnet table (hourly swaps, difficulty v2 at DAA 33,000, finality v2 first lock at 77.4%, proving v0 from DAA 84,100) with the one-verifier caveat. Roadmap phases 2 and 3 carry what is measured so far and a "What ships next: Ember 0.3.6" table. Proving section carries the RTX 5090 shard figures; the stale "Where is the miner?" answer now points at Ember. Every number cites its engineering-log entry or plan in a source line. Version 0.2, status "devnet live, pre-testnet". Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<main id="main" class="wrap">
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<div class="eyebrow">Litepaper · version 0.1</div>
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<div class="eyebrow">Litepaper · version 0.2</div>
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<h1>Mined by GPUs.<br>Proven by fire.</h1>
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<div class="tag">A proof-of-work chain whose miners also prove every block, run Ethereum's apps, and built so no chip can ever take your place.</div>
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<div class="meta">
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<span>Published <b>3 October 2026</b></span>
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<span>Published <b>3 October 2026</b> · updated <b>5 October 2026</b></span>
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<span>Coin <b>IGN</b> · cap <b>4,000,000,000</b></span>
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<span>Status <b>pre-specification, pre-testnet</b></span>
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<span>Status <b>devnet live, pre-testnet</b></span>
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<span>This is not an offer to sell anything</span>
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<li><a href="#building">Building on Igneum</a></li>
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<li><a href="#economics">Economics</a></li>
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<li><a href="#miners">For miners</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ember">Ember, the miner</a></li>
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<li><a href="#wallet">The wallet</a></li>
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<li><a href="#governance">Governance</a></li>
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<li><a href="#roadmap">Roadmap</a></li>
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<li><a href="#miners-ask">Questions miners ask</a></li>
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<div class="cap">Five layers plus the external proving market. A block flows down the column; outside demand feeds the same miners from the side.</div>
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<h3>Live on the devnet, 5 October 2026</h3>
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<p>The devnet has run since 3 October 2026 on several machines, with cards from all three GPU vendors. Coins on it have no value and the chain may be reset. What is on it today:</p>
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<thead><tr><th>Layer</th><th>State</th><th>Since</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Mining lottery</td><td>A new program every hour on Apple, NVIDIA and AMD cards, compiled ahead, no pause and no rejected block at the boundary</td><td class="num">4 Oct 2026, first live swap</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Blocks</td><td>About one a second</td><td class="num">genesis, 3 Oct 2026</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Difficulty</td><td>Rule v2, a 600-second reference window, switched on by height under the running chain with no fork and no restart of the chain</td><td class="num">DAA 33,000, 4 Oct 2026</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Finality</td><td>Rule v2: a checkpoint every 30 s of chain, locked at two thirds of all 30-day weight. First live lock: checkpoint 242 at 77.4% of all weight, 17 vote keys</td><td class="num">4 Oct 2026</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Proving</td><td>v0 active: shards are assigned to miners' keys, proven on their cards, and the records are carried in blocks</td><td class="num">DAA 84,100, 5 Oct 2026</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Ember</td><td>The one-click miner on the fleet, version 0.3.5; 0.3.6 staged</td><td class="num">4 Oct 2026, first install</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Wallet</td><td>Igneum Wallet 0.1.1 on macOS</td><td class="num">5 Oct 2026</td></tr>
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<p class="src"><b>Measured:</b> engineering log, "first hourly program swap on the live devnet", "difficulty rule v2 activated on the live devnet at DAA 33,000", "first finality lock on the live devnet" (4 October 2026); the 0.3.6 release plan (5 October 2026). The block rate is the devnet record in the evidence table, row 7.</p>
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<p>Two caveats, stated here before anyone else states them. On 5 October the verifier that checks a proof record before a producer pays it ran on one node; the other nodes stored proofs and did not pay them, and 0.3.6 ships the verifier with the app. And the devnet is the project's own machines plus two outside laptops. Nothing here has been reproduced by anyone outside the project yet; the evidence page says so row by row.</p>
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<section id="mining">
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<h3>How a block gets proven</h3>
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<p>Blocks carry transactions only and make no claim about state. Every node executes the ordered transactions natively at once, so users see their transaction land in about a second. The execution is then split into shards of a fixed proving cost. Shards are assigned by lot to eight provers for ten seconds, then open to anyone; there is no bond. Provers run them on consumer cards, and the shard proofs are folded by recursive aggregation into one proof for the block. That proof lands on-chain within about a minute at launch. Because the proof computes the state from the ordered sequence, a block with a wrong state cannot exist. Invalid transactions are skipped by rule, the way Kaspa skips conflicting spends.</p>
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<h3>The proving budget</h3>
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<p>Gas prices execution. Proving cost is a different number, so Igneum meters it separately: every transaction pays in both dimensions, and each block has a proving-cost budget set in consensus from measured prover throughput. A transaction that is cheap to run and expensive to prove pays for what it costs the provers. Shard size will be set so a 12 GB card proves one shard in about 20 seconds. That number is the first gate on the roadmap and is not measured yet. The first proofs exist: on 4 October 2026 an RTX 5090 proved a small two-transaction block in 1.4 seconds (2.7 seconds compressed), verified in 0.22 and 0.038 seconds, and a laptop CPU proved a three-shard block end to end in 19 minutes; a shard at the provisional size is the next run, and nothing is proven on the chain itself yet. Once the gate is measured, the budget rises by schedule as hardware improves. The proof system is hash-based, which is what runs on consumer cards, and sits behind a versioned interface, so Igneum can adopt a better proof system when one exists by a miner-signalled release, and runs for ever on the current one if none is adopted.</p>
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<p>Gas prices execution. Proving cost is a different number, so Igneum meters it separately: every transaction pays in both dimensions, and each block has a proving-cost budget set in consensus from measured prover throughput. A transaction that is cheap to run and expensive to prove pays for what it costs the provers. Shard size will be set so a 12 GB card proves one shard in about 20 seconds. That number is the first gate on the roadmap and is not measured yet. The first proofs exist: on 4 October 2026 an RTX 5090 proved a small two-transaction block in 1.4 seconds (2.7 seconds compressed), verified in 0.22 and 0.038 seconds, and a laptop CPU proved a three-shard block end to end in 19 minutes. Later that day the same card proved a full shard at the provisional size, 6.75 million prover gas, which executed in 60.8 million cycles: core proof 8.3 seconds, compressed proof 10.9 seconds, verified in 0.040 seconds; a four-shard block took 44.5 seconds of GPU stages end to end. Since 5 October 2026 shards are assigned and proven on the live devnet. The gate asks for a mid-range card, and an RTX 5090 is not one, so the gate stands open. Once the gate is measured, the budget rises by schedule as hardware improves. The proof system is hash-based, which is what runs on consumer cards, and sits behind a versioned interface, so Igneum can adopt a better proof system when one exists by a miner-signalled release, and runs for ever on the current one if none is adopted.</p>
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<h3>Proving for everyone else</h3>
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<p>The same miners accept proving jobs from other chains. Rollups post a job, a miner wins it, proves it, and is paid. The job market is permissionless. Jobs taken through Igneum's own market are paid in IGN and 10% of each fee is burned. The Igneum miner client also bids on other proving networks, where jobs are paid in those networks' currencies, and takes the best price. The proving market is small today. Igneum does not depend on it. No other proof-of-work chain has a seat in it.</p>
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<p>The dataset starts at 2 GB and grows by half a gigabyte a year, so a 4 GB card mines for about four years and an 8 GB card for more than a decade, approximate. 12 GB or more proves full shards. NVIDIA and AMD both work, because the mining program is generated for the architecture both share and the proof system is hash-based. Apple's chips are GPUs with unified memory, so Macs mine too. 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. When the client sees a shard or an external job it can win, 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. The Igneum 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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<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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<h3>One click, for everyone else</h3>
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<p>Farm operators get HiveOS support on day one. Everyone else gets the Igneum app: install it on Windows, macOS or Linux, press one button, and the card is mining and proving to a wallet the app made for you, with earnings shown in IGN and in your currency, and mining paused while you game. It is the same client with a face on it. The app shows you the seed phrase and has you confirm it before mining starts, offers a hardware wallet for your earnings, updates only when you accept a release signed by the key published in the genesis block, and is downloaded only from this domain or the repository with its hash shown beside the button. Nobody from Igneum will ever ask for your seed. Mining never runs in a browser, because browser compute is slow and browser mining has meant malware since Coinhive. The browser is for the dashboard, and for verifying the chain.</p>
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<p>Farm operators get a HiveOS package. Everyone else gets Igneum Ember: install it on Windows, macOS or Linux, press one button, and the card is mining and proving to a key the app made for you, with earnings shown in IGN and in your currency, and mining paused while you game. It is the same client with a face on it. The app shows you the key and has you save it before mining starts, offers a hardware wallet for your earnings, updates itself from releases signed by the project's release key with a switch to turn that off, and is downloaded only from this domain or the repository with its hash shown beside the button. The next section says what is shipped and what is still a design. Nobody from Igneum will ever ask for your seed. Mining never runs in a browser, because browser compute is slow and browser mining has meant malware since Coinhive. The browser is for the dashboard, and for verifying the chain.</p>
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<h3>Fair launch, announced</h3>
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<p>Launch date and miner software published a month ahead. Pools live on testnet. HiveOS support on day one. The founders mine from genesis like everyone else, with disclosed addresses and the same software. Nobody has coins before block one.</p>
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<h2>Ember, the miner</h2>
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<p class="lead">Igneum Ember is the one-click miner. It runs the node, mines the hourly program, proves shards and keeps your key, on Windows, macOS and Linux.</p>
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<p>Ember is a supervisor with a face. It starts a node, waits until it is synced, starts one miner per card, reads every line they print into the dashboard, and restarts what fails. It has run the devnet's cards since 4 October 2026. Everything in the first table is in the shipped app. The second table is the six levers set on 4 October 2026 to make it the fastest miner for this chain, each with its state and what has been measured.</p>
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<h3>What it does</h3>
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<tr><td>One click</td><td>Install, press Start. Ember runs its own node, syncs it, and starts one miner per card. Windows, macOS and Linux. Farms get a HiveOS custom-miner package with the same binaries</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Any card</td><td>NVIDIA, AMD and Apple silicon are detected with their real names. CUDA on NVIDIA, OpenCL on AMD and Intel, Metal on Apple. No toolchain on the machine: the GPU program is compiled at run time from the pack the node hands over</td></tr>
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<tr><td>A key made for you</td><td>A payout key is made on your machine and kept in a file only your user can read. Ember shows it once and has you save it before mining starts. Paste your own address instead if you have one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Hashing and proving in one client</td><td>The same app mines the lottery and proves the shards the chain assigns to its keys, on the same card. Proving is a switch in Settings. The tile shows assigned, proving, submitted and paid</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Several identities per card</td><td>Each card carries as many vote keys as you choose, so a large card holds the finality weight its blocks earn. The HiveOS config suggests 8 on a large card and 2 on a small one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Signed updates</td><td>Ember checks a signed manifest hourly, downloads the release, checks its hash, and installs it at a quiet moment: node synced, no hour boundary within 3 minutes, no worker starting. Machines take turns, one minute of the hour each. A release that fails to start twice is rolled back. One switch turns the automatic install off</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Signed remote jobs</td><td>The project's own machines take jobs signed by the release key and addressed to named machines: a benchmark, a build, a restart. A job runs once per id and never on a machine it does not name. A switch in Settings turns them off</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Watchdog</td><td>A miner that prints nothing for 90 s, or reports zero for 60 s while the node is synced, is restarted. A worker that reports work it did not do, or returns a hash the CPU re-check rejects, is restarted by the miner itself. A node that stops answering is restarted</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Dashboard</td><td>Per card: rate, accepted and rejected blocks, temperature, draw, MH per watt, the kernel variant in use, the proving state, and every event. Served on this machine only, behind a per-launch token</td></tr>
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<p class="src"><b>Source:</b> the app's engine, detection, keys, prover, updater, jobs and watchdog modules (<code>app/igneum-app/src</code>), the HiveOS package (<code>packaging/hive</code>). Design, not yet measured on a real card: the watchdog rules and the fault guards, which were measured against a fake worker only (engineering log, "miner fault guards and the app watchdog", 4 October 2026).</p>
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<h3>Six levers</h3>
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<thead><tr><th>Lever</th><th>What it does</th><th>State, 5 Oct 2026</th><th>Measured</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>1. Compiler race every hour</td><td>At every hourly program the worker compiles up to 17 variants of the kernel (unroll, load path, register budget, threads per block), checks each bit for bit against the base kernel, times each for 2 s with mining paused, and keeps the fastest for the hour. The hash never changes</td><td>Shipped in the Metal and CUDA workers</td><td>+17.3% on the genesis seed and +21.2% on the hourly seed, Apple M5 Max, Metal, 14 variants, under load, ratios only. The RTX 5090 race is built and not yet run</td></tr>
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<tr><td>2. Per-card auto-tune from the fleet</td><td>Every race writes a record to the fleet log. The best variant per card model is aggregated and sent back to every machine inside the signed update manifest, so a new card starts from the fleet's best and keeps racing</td><td>Shipped. The fleet is small, so no table yet</td><td>No fleet table yet</td></tr>
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<tr><td>3. Hash per watt</td><td>Steps an NVIDIA card's power cap from 100% to 50% of its default in 10% steps, holds each for 60 s, and keeps the best MH per watt. The tile shows live MH per watt. The sweep never restarts the worker, so the hour's program is never lost</td><td>In the app for NVIDIA cards. AMD and Apple: not supported</td><td>The first sweep on a card is pending. The RTX 5090 drew 290 W at p95 under a 460 W cap, so the cap did not bind</td></tr>
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<tr><td>4. Template latency</td><td>The miner subscribes to new templates instead of polling, the node builds the next template ahead, and the workers switch without draining the batch. Target under 50 ms from a new block to the card working on it, solo against the local node</td><td>In 0.3.6</td><td>Switched p50 46 to 52 ms, p90 118 to 130 ms, 3-node fast-time network, CPU miners, 0 rejected</td></tr>
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<tr><td>5. Never lose a second</td><td>The next hour's program is compiled ahead and swapped in place. The watchdog, the restarts, the CPU re-check of every found hash and per-worker health on every tile keep the card hashing</td><td>Shipped</td><td>Swap 0.01 ms on the Mac and 0.00 ms on the RTX 5090, 0 rejected, live devnet. Fake-worker guards: trip 0.0 s, worker back in 2.0 s; a silent worker restarted at 60 s</td></tr>
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<tr><td>6. Prove it in public</td><td>Every measured rate, with the card, the miner version, the date and the log entry it came from, on one page</td><td>Live</td><td><a href="/miners">The bench table</a></td></tr>
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<p class="src"><b>Measured:</b> engineering log, "miner performance: variant racing" (lever 1), "first hourly program swap on the live devnet" and "miner fault guards and the app watchdog" (lever 5), 4 October 2026; the 0.3.6 release plan, the miner-latency gate (lever 4), 5 October 2026; the efficiency-sweep plan, the RTX 5090 log of 4 October 2026 (lever 3). Levers 2 and 3 are shipped code with no fleet measurement yet.</p>
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<h3>The software's fee, not the protocol's</h3>
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<p>The protocol is fee-free: no dev fund, no fee to any team, foundation or fund. Ember takes a 1% software dev fee, the norm for GPU miners. One block template in 100 is requested with the dev address instead of yours, by a counter, never a random draw, so it is exactly 1 in 100 and anyone can check it from the source or from the chain. A fee block still carries your vote key, so it still adds to your finality weight. Ember prints the fee and the address when it starts, shows it in Settings next to a switch, and <code>--dev-fee 0</code> turns it off, as does <code>DEV_FEE=0</code> in a HiveOS flight sheet. Any other client is welcome.</p>
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<p class="src"><b>Measured:</b> engineering log, "the software dev fee measured on a test network", 4 October 2026: 9 fee blocks in 785 from two fee-paying miners, 0 from the control at <code>--dev-fee 0</code>, the chain and the miners' counters equal.</p>
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<h3>What Ember does not claim</h3>
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<li><strong>The race gain on NVIDIA.</strong> Unknown until the RTX 5090 job runs. The Mac's figure is a different compiler and a different memory system.</li>
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<li><strong>A measured sweep.</strong> The hash-per-watt sweep has not yet run on a card.</li>
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<li><strong>HiveOS on a rig.</strong> The package was self-tested with stub binaries. The first real Hive run is still to come.</li>
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<li><strong>A signed binary.</strong> Releases are signed by the project's release key, which the app checks. They do not yet carry a Developer ID or Authenticode signature, so the first install asks you to allow the app.</li>
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<h2>The wallet</h2>
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<p class="lead">Igneum Wallet is a desktop wallet, macOS first. It holds the key, signs, reads your own node, and checks finality with the node's own code.</p>
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<tr><td>Create or import</td><td>24 words on the Ethereum derivation path, so the same words open the same account in MetaMask. Or import the raw key Ember made for you</td></tr>
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<tr><td>The vault</td><td>The key is sealed on your disk with XChaCha20-Poly1305 under a key derived from your password by Argon2id (64 MiB, 3 passes). The password is never written anywhere. Nothing leaves the machine</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Send</td><td>The fee is shown before you confirm</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Receive</td><td>A QR code drawn on your machine, with no image service and no call across the network</td></tr>
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<tr><td>History</td><td>Block rewards, proving payouts and transfers in one list</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Final means final</td><td>The wallet fetches the finality certificate from the blocks that carried it and verifies the BLS signatures itself with the node's own finality code. Every entry shows pending, in a block, or final with its checkpoint index. A failed execution is never shown as final</td></tr>
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<tr><td>MetaMask</td><td>The network parameters export in one click</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Your node</td><td>The wallet reads Ember's node on this machine when it is there, so nobody else sees your balance. Without it, a public endpoint serves balances and sending, and a bundled node can be started by the wallet. Finality is verified only against a node's own interface; on a public endpoint entries stay "in a block"</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Updates</td><td>Signed over-the-air updates, installed by themselves when no send is in flight, with rollback when the new version does not start</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Next</td><td>Touch ID and Windows Hello to unlock. In progress, not live. Windows build: next</td></tr>
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<p class="src"><b>Source:</b> Igneum Wallet 0.1.1, 5 October 2026 (<code>app/igneum-wallet</code>: the vault, HD key, finality, QR and updater modules and the README). Verified: the over-the-air path end to end on one Mac against a test manifest. Not yet run: the Windows path, the rollback paths, a Developer ID signature.</p>
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<p>Igneum is governed by the people who power it, and by nobody else.</p>
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<thead><tr><th>Phase</th><th>When</th><th>What</th><th>Gate to pass</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>1. Specification</td><td class="num">Oct to Nov 2026</td><td>Mining generator, shard proving, finality rules, written for external review</td><td></td></tr>
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<tr><td>2. Prove the proving</td><td class="num">Nov 2026 to Jan 2027</td><td>Mining program prototype on GPU and CPU, shard proving benchmark on consumer cards</td><td>A mid-range GPU proves a shard in under 20 s and a CPU verifies a hash in 10 ms</td></tr>
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<tr><td>3. Devnet</td><td class="num">Started 3 Oct 2026, 20 nodes by Mar 2027</td><td>BlockDAG node with the new mining program and EVM execution, 20 nodes</td><td>1 block a second held with proofs under 60 s behind the tip</td></tr>
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<tr><td>2. Prove the proving</td><td class="num">Nov 2026 to Jan 2027</td><td>Mining program prototype on GPU and CPU, shard proving benchmark on consumer cards. So far: an RTX 5090 proves a shard in 10.9 s compressed; a CPU verifies a warp in 0.41 to 0.58 ms. A mid-range card has not been measured</td><td>A mid-range GPU proves a shard in under 20 s and a CPU verifies a hash in 10 ms</td></tr>
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<tr><td>3. Devnet</td><td class="num">Started 3 Oct 2026, 20 nodes by Mar 2027</td><td>BlockDAG node with the new mining program and EVM execution, 20 nodes. Live now: 1 block a second, difficulty v2, finality v2 locks, proving v0, Ember on every machine. Not yet measured on the live chain: the proof lag behind the tip</td><td>1 block a second held with proofs under 60 s behind the tip</td></tr>
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<tr><td>4. Finality and job market</td><td class="num">Apr to Jul 2027</td><td>Sustained-mining finality, external proving jobs, miner client with auto-switching</td><td>Finality design passes external review and one rollup signs for testnet</td></tr>
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<tr><td>5. Public testnet</td><td class="num">Aug to Oct 2027</td><td>One-click miner app on Windows, macOS and Linux, HiveOS, pools, the first rollup as a proving customer, no coin yet</td><td>1,000 independent miners run 30 days and rollup proofs are delivered on time</td></tr>
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<tr><td>6. Mainnet fair launch</td><td class="num">Nov 2027</td><td>Genesis with no premine, 30-day ramp, exchange listings after</td><td></td></tr>
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</table></div>
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<p>Phase two decides everything. If consumer GPUs cannot prove shards fast enough, Igneum says so and does not launch on promises.</p>
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<h3>What ships next: Ember 0.3.6</h3>
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<p>The proving activation of 5 October 2026 set the next release. Each item is in the 0.3.6 plan; none is on the fleet yet.</p>
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<thead><tr><th>Item</th><th>Why</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Ember's node runs the proof verifier</td><td>On 5 October no node on the network ran one, so a producer stored proofs and never paid them. The app now points its node at the shipped prover host</td></tr>
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<tr><td>The Windows package ships the prover host</td><td>A PC needed a 20-minute setup by hand before it could prove</td></tr>
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<tr><td>The proving tile shows the verifier state</td><td>A node that relays proofs but never pays them says so, on the tile and on the live page</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Template latency</td><td>Lever 4 above: subscribe, pre-warm, switch without draining. Switched p50 46 to 52 ms on the gate run</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Instant jobs</td><td>A job published to the fleet reached a machine up to 10 minutes later. The app now holds an outbound connection and fetches the moment a job is published, 3 to 6 s expected, not yet measured</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Testnet parameters behind a height switch</td><td>The testnet identity and the fee floors adopted on 5 October 2026, so the devnet is never forked by a node update</td></tr>
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</tbody>
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</table></div>
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<p class="src"><b>Source:</b> the 0.3.6 release plan, 5 October 2026. The latency number is the plan's gate run on a 3-node fast-time network with CPU miners; the instant-jobs latency is an estimate until the first measured row.</p>
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<h3>Who are you?</h3>
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<p>The founders mine from genesis with disclosed addresses and the same software as everyone else, and hold no coins before block one. The team page is published at public testnet, with the people, the mining addresses and the code history.</p>
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<h3>Where is the miner?</h3>
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<p>Benchmark in January 2027. Miner client with the devnet in spring. One-click app on Windows, macOS and Linux at public testnet in August 2027. All of it before any coin exists. Nothing is asked of a miner before they can run something.</p>
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||||
<p>On the devnet now. Igneum Ember runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, a HiveOS package exists, and the devnet's coins have no value. The public benchmark with a leaderboard by card model is January 2027. Pools and the public testnet are August 2027. All of it before any coin exists. Nothing is asked of a miner before they can run something. The <a href="#ember">Ember section</a> says what is shipped and what is still owed.</p>
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<h3>Will my card still pay in a bear market?</h3>
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<p>Block reward and in-chain proving move with the price. Proving for other chains is priced in the customer's money, and it is a small market today. What Igneum can promise is that its miners have the lowest cost in that market, because the card is already running on domestic power, so they are the last to switch off. That is an edge and nothing more.</p>
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