Blocks arrive one a second at launch, rising as the proving layer allows. Miners prove them in shards. A checkpoint locks every 30 seconds. All of it will be on this page, live.
+Blocks every second, proven in shards, locked every 30 seconds.
A new random program every hour. A GPU compiles it in seconds. A chip designed for last hour's program is already obsolete.
+A new program every hour. Last hour's chip is already obsolete.
The same cards that secure Igneum sell proofs to rollups and bridges. Jobs through Igneum's own market are paid in IGN and 10% of each fee is burned.
+The same cards sell proofs to rollups and bridges.
RandomX has kept chips off Monero since 2019 by making the mining program random. Igneum takes the same principle to graphics cards and adds the parts RandomX never had.
+The random program that kept chips off Monero, rebuilt for graphics cards.
| Property | RandomX, Monero | Igneum |
|---|
| Property | RandomX | Igneum |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware it is built for | CPUs. GPUs run it badly on purpose | GPUs. Any card, any vendor. Bit-exact on Apple and NVIDIA, measured |
| Random program | Per hash, interpreted in a virtual machine | Per hour, compiled to native GPU code, with a per-hash random data path. ProgPoW randomised the maths inside a fixed shape; Igneum regenerates the whole program |
| Dataset | About 2 GB, the same size since 2019, approximate | 2 GB at genesis, growing every year past any chip's memory |
| Light verification | 256 MB cache on a CPU, milliseconds | 256 MB cache on a CPU, one warp under 10 ms, the measured gate |
| Changes over time | None. A fixed design, unchanged for seven years | Automatic era draws and a reserve of instruction families that unlock by height. Nobody touches it |
| Seed grinding | Not applicable, the program comes from the hash input | Closed by a verifiable delay between seed and program |
| Useful work | None. Hashing only | The same card proves every block and sells proofs to other chains |
| Track record | No chip in seven years | Zero years. Every number above is measured and logged with the commands that produced it, and the repository opens with the public benchmark in January 2027 |
| Who mines | CPUs | GPUs |
| Program changes | Every hash | Every hour |
| Memory | 2 GB, fixed | 2 GB, growing |
| Verified by | Any CPU | Any CPU |
RandomX proved that a random program beats a chip when the only hardware that runs it well is the hardware everyone already owns. Igneum does the same for the card in your PC, and makes the program keep moving without a human. Run the benchmark on your own card from the repository and post the number.
-Built on the shoulders: Kaspa's GHOSTDAG and node, Monero's RandomX idea, Chia's class-group VDF, Ethereum's EVM, Succinct's SP1, BLS12-381 and Bitcoin's address format, each credited in public.
What changed, why, and how every change is measured: the provenance section of the litepaper.
The program keeps changing on a schedule fixed at genesis. Nobody touches it.
+ Read more in the litepaper +Built on the shoulders: Kaspa's GHOSTDAG and node, Monero's RandomX idea, Chia's class-group VDF, Ethereum's EVM, Succinct's SP1, BLS12-381 and Bitcoin's address format.
What changed, why, and how it is measured: the provenance section of the litepaper.
Any card with 4 GB today, 8 GB for the next decade. A random program every hour, so there is nothing for a chip to be built for. 80% of every block to the miner who finds it, from block one.
+Any 4 GB card. 80% of each block to its finder.
Get the minerThe same card proves shards of every block and sells proofs to other chains. A proof is right or it is not, so nobody has to trust a miner, ever.
+The same card proves shards and sells proofs to other chains.
How proving paysEthereum bytecode, wallets and tools, unchanged. One-second inclusion, finality in about two minutes, a prover network any contract can call, and 20% of the priority fees your code earns paid back to you every block.
+Ethereum bytecode unchanged, with 20% of priority fees paid back.
Deploy on IgneumOne client, one balance. The miner software switches the card between hashing and proving by itself.
+One client switches the card between hashing and proving by itself.
80% of emission to the miner who wins the block. Half of all IGN is mined in the first two years.
20% of emission plus a share of every block's gas, paid to the cards that prove shards and aggregate them.
Rollups and bridges pay for proofs in their own money. Small market today, growing with every chain that moves to proofs. Upside, not a promise.
80% of emission to the miner who wins the block.
20% of emission plus a share of every block's gas.
Rollups and bridges pay for proofs in their own money.
One click: install, press start, the card mines and proves to a wallet the app makes for you. Available at public testnet. Open source, 1% dev fee like every miner you already run. Download only from this domain or the repository, check the hash beside the button, and write down the seed the app shows you. Nobody from Igneum will ever ask for your seed.
+One click: install, press start, the card mines and proves to a wallet it makes for you. Public testnet first.
Download only from this domain. Nobody from Igneum will ask for your seed.
Thirteen months, four public gates. Every gate is a measurement, published whether it passes or fails. Miss it and the phase repeats or Igneum stops.
+Thirteen months, four public gates, each a measurement published pass or fail.
+ Read more in the litepaperHard cap of 4 billion IGN. Emission halves every two years for ever. Not one coin to a founder, a fund or a stake. No fee to any team, foundation or fund either. The team mines, proves and builds on the same terms as everyone else.
-Hard cap of 4 billion IGN, halving every two years for ever.
+No premine, no stake, no fee to any team. Base fee burned.
+ Read more in the litepaper