From 3cd56d65fdde580ea31830013131c3c7fd4d5ff2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: igneum-labs <337424239+igneum-labs@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 20:36:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The public testnet is weeks away, not August 2027: every mention of the month comes off the site; ledger row X31 The owner, 6 October 2026: "August 2027" is false. igneum-testnet-1's genesis is final, three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and the testnet opens when the go checklist (docs/plans/testnet-go.md) closes, which is weeks away. No calendar month is given; the owner gives one if he wants one. The sentence everywhere: "The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes." In site/litepaper.html the proving section's proofs feed ("Live rows arrive with the public testnet." then the sentence), the For miners paragraph ("Pools come with the public testnet." then the sentence) and the roadmap's phase 5 ("Weeks away: when the go checklist closes"); site/journey.json phase 5 and the home page's inlined journey carry the same row. docs/fud-ledger.md gains X31 recording the correction (the old sentences, the new one and where each lived), row X3 a new status line pointing at it (the old line kept as history), and O-X.2's blocker note and overclaim item 75's replacement text read the new state. tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs checks X3's new sentence and X31 (51 sentences, 0 missing). The ledger page regenerated (177 entries, 0 leaks). Checks on the tree: link check 912 links across 16 pages 0 broken, contrast 32 pairs 0 under 4.5:1, orphan check 0 site headings, api tests 5 pass, identity grep clean on every served site file (the one hit is master's polish.md, the polish lane's), no "final" on / or /live while finality is paused, no console errors, "August 2027" on no page. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 --- docs/fud-ledger.md | 15 +++++++++++-- site/index.html | 2 +- site/journey.json | 40 +++++++++++++++++----------------- site/ledger.html | 22 ++++++++++++------- site/litepaper.html | 6 ++--- tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs | 3 ++- 6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/fud-ledger.md b/docs/fud-ledger.md index f74cfef2d..3d4a5ce63 100644 --- a/docs/fud-ledger.md +++ b/docs/fud-ledger.md @@ -898,6 +898,8 @@ Sweep (5 October 2026, evening): stated. `site/index.html`: hero "See the miner" Status: Conceded in part, labelled, stated (5 October 2026, night): `site/index.html`, the sentence "All of it will be on this page, live" is no longer on the page; the proofs feed now ends "Live rows arrive with the public testnet, August 2027" (overclaim 61). Was: Conceded in part, labelled. +Status: Conceded in part, labelled, stated (6 October 2026, night): the proofs feed moved to the litepaper's proving section with the home-page redesign and reads "Live rows arrive with the public testnet. The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes." (X31). The 5 October line below is the history. + Answer: The tagline plays on "proven" as in ZK proofs and "cupel". The homepage marks every live panel "PREVIEW", "prototype" or "at testnet", which is honest. The sentence "All of it will be on this page, live" is a promise about a future testnet and should say when. The tagline stays; nothing in the ledger depends on it. Evidence: `site/index.html`. Fix: overclaims list, item 62. @@ -1187,7 +1189,7 @@ Replace with: "A chain built so a chip gains too little to take your place." Replace with: "Benchmark: January 2027" 61. HP: "All of it will be on this page, live." -Replace with: "All of it will be on this page, live, from public testnet in August 2027." +Replace with: "All of it will be on this page, live, from the public testnet." (the month was removed on 6 October 2026, X31) 62. HP economics: "Not one coin to a founder, a fund or a stake." Replace with: "Not one coin of emission to a founder, a fund or a stake. The official client carries a 1% dev fee to the founder's company, as every GPU miner does; any client without it is welcome." @@ -1678,7 +1680,7 @@ Round 2 (5 October 2026, night): the signing half, from block payloads. No RPC e ### X15. Remove the founders from a test network and show what continues "'The chain runs without its founders' is a sentence. Take the team's miners, provers, aggregators, seed nodes, observer and site off a running testnet and show what keeps producing blocks, proofs and locks." -Status: Open, blocked on the public testnet (August 2027 per the litepaper roadmap): next step O-X.2 run at a published time on that testnet, with the protocol already in the Answer below (every project-run node, miner, prover, aggregator and seed stopped, the observer and live page down, 24 hours of blocks per second, proof lag, certificates per hour and a fresh sync from the shipped seed list). Was: Open, experiment scheduled (O-X.2). Sweep (5 October 2026): a public-testnet experiment; not runnable before it exists. +Status: Open, blocked on the public testnet (weeks away, when the go checklist closes; see X31): next step O-X.2 run at a published time on that testnet, with the protocol already in the Answer below (every project-run node, miner, prover, aggregator and seed stopped, the observer and live page down, 24 hours of blocks per second, proof lag, certificates per hour and a fresh sync from the shipped seed list). Was: Open, experiment scheduled (O-X.2). Sweep (5 October 2026): a public-testnet experiment; not runnable before it exists. Answer: Correct, and it is the right test for the litepaper's sentence (Governance). The test: on the public testnet, at a published time, stop every node, miner, prover, aggregator and seed node the project runs, take the observer feed and the live page down, and record for 24 hours: blocks per second, proof lag, certificates per hour, and a fresh node syncing from the seed list in the client (spec 10.6). What continues is what the sentence may claim. Dependencies the test will expose: the seed list, the release key (G7), the reference pool, the VDF evaluators (every node ships one, 4.5) and the founders' own hashrate share (E2). @@ -2211,6 +2213,15 @@ Answer: Correct at discovery; fixed before this document was written. The eviden Evidence: the commits above. Experiment: `curl https://igneum.network/api/live` holds no address, no 64-hex key hash and no payout address. +### X31. The public testnet dated "August 2027" on the site +"The litepaper's For miners section said 'Pools and the public testnet are August 2027', the proving section said 'Live rows arrive with the public testnet, August 2027', the roadmap's phase 5 read 'Aug to Oct 2027' and the home page's journey carried the same row. igneum-testnet-1's genesis is final, three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and the testnet opens when the go checklist (docs/plans/testnet-go.md) closes, which is weeks away." + +Status: Fixed, stated (6 October 2026, night, the owner's decision): every mention of the month is gone from the site. The sentence everywhere is "The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes." (`site/litepaper.html` For miners and the proving section, the roadmap row 5 reads "Weeks away: when the go checklist closes", `site/journey.json` phase 5 and the home page's inlined journey carry the same row). No calendar month is given for the testnet; the owner gives one if he wants one. + +Answer: The date was the plan of 3 October 2026 and the chain overtook it: the testnet genesis was fixed on 5 October, the three seeds and rpc.testnet.igneum.network are up, and the remaining work is the go checklist. Rows that quoted the month (X3, O-X.2's blocker note, overclaim item 75's replacement text) read the new sentence by reference to this row. + +Evidence: `docs/plans/testnet-go.md`; `docs/igneum-testnet` notes (genesis 87617621..., seeds seed1 to seed3.testnet.igneum.network, public RPC). Checked by `tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs` (the X3 and X31 rows). + ## Status updates, 4 October 2026 (round 4) - **F21** (the long-partition fork). Extended: a side locks alone when its own share of its own table reaches two thirds, at `t = W (2/3 - s) / (1 - s)`: 50/50 at 2,400 DAA s on the devnet (about 40 minutes), 10 days on mainnet; the 60 side of 60/40 at 1,200 DAA s (20 minutes), 5 days; the ledger's measured `W/(3R)` = 200 s is this formula at s = 1/2. At HEAD a second certificate at an index is kept, logged and ignored (`processes/finality.rs:650-655, 661-666`) and `fork_choice_lock` (`:886-901`) pins the node. Public text: `site/litepaper.html:511` says a third of the blocks is needed to split finality in a partition; the partition alone does it. Replacement sentence in `docs/review/round-4-2026-10-04.md` section 1 (b). Review id R4.1.5. diff --git a/site/index.html b/site/index.html index 5d74c136a..e18897fdb 100644 --- a/site/index.html +++ b/site/index.html @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ - + diff --git a/site/journey.json b/site/journey.json index eca0cfc9b..78421a7fc 100644 --- a/site/journey.json +++ b/site/journey.json @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ { "id": "phase-5", "name": "Public testnet", - "when": "Aug to Oct 2027", + "when": "Weeks away: when the go checklist closes", "status": "next", - "line": "One-click miner app on Windows, macOS and Linux, HiveOS, pools, the first rollup as a proving customer, no coin yet", + "line": "Three seed nodes and the public RPC are up; the one-click miner app on Windows, macOS and Linux, HiveOS, pools, the first rollup as a proving customer, no coin yet", "gate": "1,000 independent miners run 30 days and rollup proofs are delivered on time" }, { @@ -207,48 +207,48 @@ }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Sim/economy: mining versus proving under stress, agent-based", - "short": "Economy simulation: mining versus proving under stress" + "text": "One-click Windows workers: what the Apple M5 Max could measure", + "short": "One-click Windows workers" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Difficulty rule under attack: pool hopping, pulsed rental, timestamp stretching, short-lane oscillation, epoch games, polluted window, block flood", - "short": "Difficulty rule attacked seven ways" + "text": "First finality lock on the live devnet: checkpoint 242 at 77.4% of all weight, two hours after genesis", + "short": "First live finality lock: 77.4% of weight, 17 voters" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Difficulty rule: timestamp attack fixed , simulator regression, 3-node forger test", - "short": "Timestamp attack on the difficulty rule fixed" + "text": "The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Apple M5 Max could and could not reproduce", + "short": "The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Apple M5 Max could and could…" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Devnet-v4 integration: nine branches merged, 3-node test network on the merged node, Windows cross-build", - "short": "Devnet v4: nine branches merged into one node" + "text": "A node 60 s behind the clock is silently dead", + "short": "A node 60 s behind the clock is silently dead" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Generator version 2 adopted: exact load count, fresh-source loads, program acceptance; every vector re-cut, three workers re-checked, 20,000-program census, devnet-v4 binaries rebuilt", - "short": "Generator v2 adopted: every hash does 128 distinct reads" + "text": "First machine on the Igneum Miner app: the RTX 5090 Windows rig's RTX 5090 at 118 MH/s, via Setup.exe", + "short": "First machine on the one-click app: a 5090 at 118 MH/s" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Proving v0 on the RTX 5090: first GPU proof of an Igneum block", - "short": "First GPU proof of an Igneum block: 1.4 s on an RTX 5090" + "text": "Difficulty rule v2: the live oscillation, its cause, the DAG replay, the fix behind a height switch", + "short": "Difficulty rule v2" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Devnet v4 cut-over: generator v2, 2/3 floor, three nodes and a seed on a fresh chain", - "short": "Devnet v4 live: generator v2, two-thirds floor, fresh chain" + "text": "The observer stored nothing for 78 minutes, then 7,022 blocks in two minutes", + "short": "The observer stored nothing for 78 minutes, then 7,022 blocks in two…" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "First hourly program swap on the live devnet: compile-ahead, no pause, two cards", - "short": "First live hourly swap: no pause on Mac, NVIDIA or AMD" + "text": "The RTX 5090 Windows rig at the 14:20 boundary: a worker stuck on the previous epoch", + "short": "The RTX 5090 Windows rig at the 14" }, { "date": "2026-10-04", - "text": "Proving: devnet v4 shards on the Apple M5 Max CPU, loaded machine", - "short": "Proving: devnet v4 shards on the Apple M5 Max CPU, loaded machine" + "text": "Shard proving on the RTX 5090: a full shard compressed in 10.9 s, a two-shard block aggregated in 2.2 s, all verified", + "short": "Shard layer on the RTX 5090: a full shard proven in 10.9 s, a block aggregated in 2.2 s" } ] } diff --git a/site/ledger.html b/site/ledger.html index 04fa45d2b..b5a4dc333 100644 --- a/site/ledger.html +++ b/site/ledger.html @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Igneum ledger: every criticism, answered - + - + @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ - + @@ -121,20 +121,20 @@ details{margin-top:8px;font-size:14px;color:var(--ash)}summary{cursor:pointer;co
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Every criticism, answered or conceded

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This is every criticism the project expects, in the critic's words, with what was done about it and the date. 176 entries since 3 October 2026. Entries are never deleted; a status that changes keeps its history on the line. Where the critic was right the entry says Conceded. Where nothing has been done it says Open and names what settles it. The founder mined through the GPU years. Ethereum's move to proof of stake in September 2022 ended that income and the miners' place in that chain. This is one person building, with AI systems doing the engineering, the coin he wanted to exist for miners: GPU-mined, the miners are the provers, no founder allocation, every cost stated. Help is welcome and a team is wanted: cryptographers, node engineers, miners who will test. This ledger is the application form: pick an open row and write to hello@igneum.network with its id.

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This is every criticism the project expects, in the critic's words, with what was done about it and the date. 177 entries since 3 October 2026. Entries are never deleted; a status that changes keeps its history on the line. Where the critic was right the entry says Conceded. Where nothing has been done it says Open and names what settles it. The founder mined through the GPU years. Ethereum's move to proof of stake in September 2022 ended that income and the miners' place in that chain. This is one person building, with AI systems doing the engineering, the coin he wanted to exist for miners: GPU-mined, the miners are the provers, no founder allocation, every cost stated. Help is welcome and a team is wanted: cryptographers, node engineers, miners who will test. This ledger is the application form: pick an open row and write to hello@igneum.network with its id.

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CountStatusMeaning
7Nothing has settled it yet. The entry names what will
62The critic is right. "Stated" means the public text says so; "not yet stated" means it does not yet
54A code, spec or text change answers it, with the commit or the page named
55A code, spec or text change answers it, with the commit or the page named
27A consensus rule or a decision by the owner answers it, dated
13A measurement or a simulation exists and is named
13A design rule answers it; no measurement is possible yet
176Every entry. The sections: Mining and chips, Finality and attacks, Proving and the zkEVM, Economics and the coin, Governance and the founders, Comparisons, Legal and regulatory, Launch and operations, Builders
177Every entry. The sections: Mining and chips, Finality and attacks, Proving and the zkEVM, Economics and the coin, Governance and the founders, Comparisons, Legal and regulatory, Launch and operations, Builders

Mining and chips

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Remove the founders from a test network and show what continues

5 October 2026
'The chain runs without its founders' is a sentence. Take the team's miners, provers, aggregators, seed nodes, observer and site off a running testnet and show what keeps producing blocks, proofs and locks.
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Open, blocked on the public testnet August 2027 per the litepaper roadmap): next step O-X.2 run at a published time on that testnet, with the protocol already in the Answer below (every project-run node, miner, prover, aggregator and seed stopped, the observer and live page down, 24 hours of blocks per second, proof lag, certificates per hour and a fresh sync from the shipped seed list). Was: Open, experiment scheduled (O-X.2). Sweep (5 October 2026): a public-testnet experiment; not runnable before it exists.
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Open, blocked on the public testnet weeks away, when the go checklist closes; see X31): next step O-X.2 run at a published time on that testnet, with the protocol already in the Answer below (every project-run node, miner, prover, aggregator and seed stopped, the observer and live page down, 24 hours of blocks per second, proof lag, certificates per hour and a fresh sync from the shipped seed list). Was: Open, experiment scheduled (O-X.2). Sweep (5 October 2026): a public-testnet experiment; not runnable before it exists.
The answer as first written

Correct, and it is the right test for the litepaper's sentence (Governance). The test: on the public testnet, at a published time, stop every node, miner, prover, aggregator and seed node the project runs, take the observer feed and the live page down, and record for 24 hours: blocks per second, proof lag, certificates per hour, and a fresh node syncing from the seed list in the client (spec 10.6). What continues is what the sentence may claim. Dependencies the test will expose: the seed list, the release key (G7), the reference pool, the VDF evaluators (every node ships one, 4.5) and the founders' own hashrate share (E2).

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Fixed 4 October 2026): ac89a37 and 6b644a6 (a scrubbed copy, the build fails on any private string), 2d8f09c (none of the three in the public API), 621f5cc (the menu). Review ids R4.6.1, R4.6.2, R4.6.8.
The answer as first written

Correct at discovery; fixed before this document was written. The evidence page was brought up to the day's measurements in 86e5857 and bf4d7ec (rows 29 and 30, rows 10, 12 and 15 restated).

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The public testnet dated "August 2027" on the site

6 October 2026
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The litepaper's For miners section said 'Pools and the public testnet are August 2027', the proving section said 'Live rows arrive with the public testnet, August 2027', the roadmap's phase 5 read 'Aug to Oct 2027' and the home page's journey carried the same row. igneum-testnet-1's genesis is final, three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and the testnet opens when the go checklist (a repository file) closes, which is weeks away.
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Fixed, stated 6 October 2026, night, the owner's decision): every mention of the month is gone from the site. The sentence everywhere is "The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes." (a repository file For miners and the proving section, the roadmap row 5 reads "Weeks away: when the go checklist closes", a repository file phase 5 and the home page's inlined journey carry the same row). No calendar month is given for the testnet; the owner gives one if he wants one.
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The answer as first written

The date was the plan of 3 October 2026 and the chain overtook it: the testnet genesis was fixed on 5 October, the three seeds and rpc.testnet.igneum.network are up, and the remaining work is the go checklist. Rows that quoted the month (X3, O-X.2's blocker note, overclaim item 75's replacement text) read the new sentence by reference to this row.

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Proving and the zkEVM

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An unwound transaction leaves the node's view until its sender resends it

6 October 2026
diff --git a/site/litepaper.html b/site/litepaper.html index 04bfbeb56..98e335ded 100644 --- a/site/litepaper.html +++ b/site/litepaper.html @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ body.all .pager{display:none}

The proving budget

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. Measured on 5 October 2026 (an RTX 5090 under SP1 6.8.1's GPU prover, the shard size the chain adopts from its fee switch, 30,000 proving gas, about 4.7 million prover cycles): one full shard proves in 4.3 seconds and needs 20.4 GB of GPU memory with the card to itself, so a 24 GB card proves full shards and a 12 GB or 16 GB card does not on this prover build, whose floor is 13.9 GB for even an empty shard; mining and proving on one card needs 32 GB today (the prototype-size shard beside the miner peaked at 30.1 GB) and 24 GB once the adopted shard size is live (22.2 GB beside the miner, 13.2 seconds a shard, measured on the 32 GB card; a 24 GB card has not run it yet). The old 12 GB gate on the roadmap was withdrawn on 5 October until a prover build with a smaller floor was measured; on 6 October a patched server proved the same shard at 7.4 to 8.0 GB alone on eleven rented cards from the RTX 3060 to the RTX 5090 (the real-card table), so the gate returns as measured and the patched server is not yet in the shipped app. 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.

Proving for everyone else

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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 and is Designed, not yet built. At launch a job is paid on the customer's own chain, in the customer's currency, to a payout contract keyed by miner address, because Igneum cannot yet see Ethereum. Settlement in IGN, with 10% of each fee burned, follows when the proof bridge lets Igneum see the payment, in phase two. The Igneum miner client can also bid on other proving networks and take the best price, where a miner chooses to hold their collateral: Boundless provers post ZKC and Succinct provers stake PROVE (approximate, from their documentation). The proving market is small today. Igneum does not depend on it. We know of no other proof-of-work chain selling proofs to other chains. Live rows arrive with the public testnet, August 2027.

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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 and is Designed, not yet built. At launch a job is paid on the customer's own chain, in the customer's currency, to a payout contract keyed by miner address, because Igneum cannot yet see Ethereum. Settlement in IGN, with 10% of each fee burned, follows when the proof bridge lets Igneum see the payment, in phase two. The Igneum miner client can also bid on other proving networks and take the best price, where a miner chooses to hold their collateral: Boundless provers post ZKC and Succinct provers stake PROVE (approximate, from their documentation). The proving market is small today. Igneum does not depend on it. We know of no other proof-of-work chain selling proofs to other chains. Live rows arrive with the public testnet. The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes.

@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ body.all .pager{display:none} 2. Prove the provingNov 2026 to Jan 2027Mining 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 0.61 ms (class v2) to 2.1 ms (class v3). A mid-range card has not been measuredA mid-range GPU proves a shard in under 20 s and a CPU verifies a hash in 10 ms 3. DevnetStarted 3 Oct 2026, 20 nodes by Mar 2027BlockDAG 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. Measured on the live chain on 6 October 2026: proofs land a median of about 380 s behind the tip (the observer, /live), against the 60 s gate1 block a second held with proofs under 60 s behind the tip 4. Finality and job marketApr to Jul 2027Sustained-mining finality, external proving jobs, miner client with auto-switchingFinality design passes external review and one rollup signs for testnet - 5. Public testnetAug to Oct 2027One-click miner app on Windows, macOS and Linux, HiveOS, pools, the first rollup as a proving customer, no coin yet1,000 independent miners run 30 days and rollup proofs are delivered on time + 5. Public testnetWeeks away: when the go checklist closesOne-click miner app on Windows, macOS and Linux, HiveOS, pools, the first rollup as a proving customer, no coin yet1,000 independent miners run 30 days and rollup proofs are delivered on time 6. Mainnet fair launchNov 2027Genesis with no premine, 30-day ramp. No listing is arranged, promised or sought by the project @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ body.all .pager{display:none}

One founder, pseudonymous, working with AI systems. The design, the hostile reviews, the code, the simulators and this document were produced that way, and the commit history says so. The software is shipped by Igneum Labs LTD, Unit IH-00-01-01-OF-01, Level 01, Innovation One, Dubai International Financial Centre. The design remains the work of one founder working with AI systems, reviewed in public through the ledger. What that does and does not mean: the measurements are measurements, reproducible from the commands in the engineering log; the simulators are code anyone can run; the design claims stay design claims until people with names have tried to break them. Every criticism the project expects is kept in a ledger with its honest answer, and the entries that were right are marked conceded; the ledger is published with the repository at the public testnet. No cryptographer is hired yet; the plan budgets one for phases 1 and 2, and external reviewers are named and paid before gate 3.

The founders mine from genesis with disclosed addresses and the same software as everyone else, and hold no coins before block one. The team is pseudonymous and there is no team page. The mining addresses and the code history are published with the repository at the public testnet.

Where is the miner?

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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 Ember section says what is shipped and what is still owed.

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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 come with the public testnet. The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes. All of it before any coin exists. Nothing is asked of a miner before they can run something. The Ember section says what is shipped and what is still owed.

Will my card still pay in a bear market?

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' electricity cost in that market is close to power, because the card is already running on domestic power; the price they must charge is the subsidy they forgo, which falls as one over network hash. That is an edge over data-centre provers at scale and nothing more.

diff --git a/tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs b/tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs index d9a1d774e..f56b835e2 100644 --- a/tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs +++ b/tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ const REQUIRED = { ['X7', 'hello@igneum.network'], ], 'litepaper.html': [ - ['X3', 'Live rows arrive with the public testnet, August 2027'], + ['X3', 'Live rows arrive with the public testnet.'], + ['X31', 'The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes.'], ['C2', 'since 2019 (approximate)'], ['M2', 'computing items on the fly runs 4.8x slower than loading them'], ['M4', 'ProgPoW, as KAWPOW on Ravencoin since 2020'],