Merge site-ui-3: RandomX chip correction (X34)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### C2. vs Monero: "no chip in seven years" is not proof
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"Absence of a public RandomX ASIC is not evidence one cannot exist. Monero is also a small prize."
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Status: Closed by the fact (6 October 2026, night): a public RandomX chip now exists, Bitmain's Antminer X9, shipping from July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270). Every sentence that leaned on its absence was rewritten under X34; "2019 (approximate)" stays on both pages.
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Status: Conceded, stated (5 October 2026, night): `site/litepaper.html`, Mining, "no chip publicly shipped, approximate" and "Monero is precedent, not proof"; `site/index.html`, hero, "a chip gains too little to take your place". Was: Conceded, label needed.
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Status: Conceded, stated (6 October 2026, later that night): the restored home page carries the RandomX paragraph again, "since 2019 (approximate)", beside the litepaper.
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Evidence: `site/litepaper.html`; `docs/plans/testnet-go.md`; X31, X32.
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### X34. RandomX described as chip-free
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"The home page said the random program 'has kept chips off Monero since 2019', the litepaper said Monero ran on RandomX 'with no chip publicly shipped' and spoke of 'Monero's seven years without a public chip'. Bitmain's Antminer X9, a RandomX chip, ships from July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270), and RandomX 2.0 shipped on 25 March 2026. Every sentence that said or implied RandomX is chip-free, or that Monero's approach has held, was wrong."
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Status: Fixed, stated (6 October 2026, night, from the cryptanalysis research): four sentences corrected, each with the X9 as the stated fact and its date; every sentence that only names the technique stands.
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- `site/index.html`, Monero's technique card. Was: "The random program that has kept chips off Monero since 2019 (approximate), rebuilt for graphics cards. The program keeps changing on a schedule fixed at genesis; nobody touches it." Now: "Monero's random program held chips off from 2019 (approximate) until Bitmain's Antminer X9 shipped in July 2026: 1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600. Igneum rebuilds the idea for graphics cards with a program that changes every hour on a schedule fixed at genesis; nobody touches it."
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- `site/litepaper.html`, Mining. Was: "Monero has run on RandomX since 2019 with no chip publicly shipped, approximate; that is precedent, not proof." Now: "Monero ran on RandomX from 2019 (approximate) with no chip publicly shipped until Bitmain's Antminer X9 in July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270). About seven years of hold and then a chip: that is the record Igneum's hourly program and its chip model are built against."
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- `site/litepaper.html`, vs RandomX. Was: "RandomX has kept chips off Monero since 2019 (approximate) by making the mining program random, so the only hardware that runs it well is the hardware everyone already owns." Now: "RandomX kept chips off Monero from 2019 (approximate) by making the mining program random, so the hardware that ran it well was the hardware everyone already owned. That hold ended: Bitmain's Antminer X9 ships from July 2026 at 1 MH/s and 2,472 W, about USD 5,600, and RandomX 2.0 shipped on 25 March 2026 (monero-project/monero issue 10270)."
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- `site/litepaper.html`, What Igneum does not claim, "A chip is impossible". Was: "Monero's seven years without a public chip are precedent, not proof, and a small prize: they say nothing about the price of a chip with the 256 MB cache on its die, and that price is a cost model, not a measurement." Now: "Monero's RandomX held for about seven years before Bitmain's Antminer X9 shipped in July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270). That record says nothing about the price of a chip with the 256 MB cache on its die; that price is a cost model, not a measurement."
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- `site/litepaper.html`, vs RandomX table, Track record. Was: "No chip publicly shipped in seven years, approximate". Now: "About seven years without a public chip, then Bitmain's Antminer X9, shipping from July 2026".
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- `site/litepaper.html`, Precedents table, the RandomX row gains "its first chip, Bitmain's Antminer X9, ships from July 2026".
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Checked by `tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs` (rows X34 on both pages). C2 carries the same update.
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Answer: The precedent Igneum cites is now a complete one: a fixed random program held CPU mining for about seven years and then a chip shipped. Igneum's program changes every hour from a genesis-fixed schedule, its dataset grows, and the chip model on the numbers page prices the chip that stores the dataset rather than assuming none can be built. The X9's rate and power are Bitmain's published figures, not our measurement.
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Source: github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/10270 (the X9 tracking issue; rate, power, price and the July 2026 ship date as stated there); RandomX 2.0 release, 25 March 2026. The year 2019 for RandomX's activation stays labelled approximate.
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Evidence: `site/index.html`; `site/litepaper.html`; `tools/ci/ledger-text-check.mjs`; C2.
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## Status updates, 4 October 2026 (round 4)
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- **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.
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<div class="card">
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<div class="eyebrow">Monero's technique, applied to GPUs</div>
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<h3>A program that keeps changing</h3>
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<p>The random program that has kept chips off Monero since 2019 (approximate), rebuilt for graphics cards. The program keeps changing on a schedule fixed at genesis; nobody touches it.</p>
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<p>Monero’s random program held chips off from 2019 (approximate) until Bitmain’s Antminer X9 shipped in July 2026: 1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600. Igneum rebuilds the idea for graphics cards with a program that changes every hour on a schedule fixed at genesis; nobody touches it.</p>
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<div class="tbl" style="margin-top:var(--s-2)"><table class="cmp">
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<thead><tr><th>Property</th><th>RandomX</th><th>Igneum</th></tr></thead>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover">
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<title>Igneum ledger: every criticism, answered</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Every criticism Igneum expects, in the critic's words, with what was done, the status and the date. 179 entries. Nothing deleted, nothing softened.">
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<meta name="description" content="Every criticism Igneum expects, in the critic's words, with what was done, the status and the date. 180 entries. Nothing deleted, nothing softened.">
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<meta property="og:type" content="website">
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<meta property="og:site_name" content="Igneum">
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<meta property="og:title" content="Igneum ledger: every criticism, answered">
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<meta property="og:description" content="179 criticisms in the critic's words, with what was done, the status and the date.">
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<meta property="og:description" content="180 criticisms in the critic's words, with what was done, the status and the date.">
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<meta property="og:url" content="https://igneum.network/ledger">
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<meta property="og:image:alt" content="Igneum. Mined by GPUs. Proven by fire.">
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<meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="Igneum. Mined by GPUs. Proven by fire.">
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<div class="eyebrow">Ledger · 179 entries · regenerated from the repository</div>
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<div class="eyebrow">Ledger · 180 entries · regenerated from the repository</div>
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<h1>Every criticism, answered or conceded</h1>
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<p class="intro">This is every criticism the project expects, in the critic's words, with what was done about it and the date. 179 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 <a href="mailto:hello@igneum.network">hello@igneum.network</a> with its id.</p>
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<p class="intro">This is every criticism the project expects, in the critic's words, with what was done about it and the date. 180 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 <a href="mailto:hello@igneum.network">hello@igneum.network</a> with its id.</p>
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<thead><tr><th>Count</th><th>Status</th><th>Meaning</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td class="num">7</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Open">Open</button></td><td>Nothing has settled it yet. The entry names what will</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">62</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Conceded">Conceded</button></td><td>The critic is right. "Stated" means the public text says so; "not yet stated" means it does not yet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">57</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Fixed or built">Fixed or built</button></td><td>A code, spec or text change answers it, with the commit or the page named</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">27</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Closed by rule or decided">Closed by rule or decided</button></td><td>A consensus rule or a decision by the owner answers it, dated</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">61</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Conceded">Conceded</button></td><td>The critic is right. "Stated" means the public text says so; "not yet stated" means it does not yet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">58</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Fixed or built">Fixed or built</button></td><td>A code, spec or text change answers it, with the commit or the page named</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">28</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Closed by rule or decided">Closed by rule or decided</button></td><td>A consensus rule or a decision by the owner answers it, dated</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">13</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Answered with evidence">Answered with evidence</button></td><td>A measurement or a simulation exists and is named</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">13</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="Answered by design">Answered by design</button></td><td>A design rule answers it; no measurement is possible yet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">179</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="">All</button></td><td>Every entry. The sections: <a href="#m">Mining and chips</a>, <a href="#f">Finality and attacks</a>, <a href="#p">Proving and the zkEVM</a>, <a href="#e">Economics and the coin</a>, <a href="#g">Governance and the founders</a>, <a href="#c">Comparisons</a>, <a href="#l">Legal and regulatory</a>, <a href="#x">Launch and operations</a>, <a href="#d">Builders</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="num">180</td><td><button type="button" class="chip" data-filter="">All</button></td><td>Every entry. The sections: <a href="#m">Mining and chips</a>, <a href="#f">Finality and attacks</a>, <a href="#p">Proving and the zkEVM</a>, <a href="#e">Economics and the coin</a>, <a href="#g">Governance and the founders</a>, <a href="#c">Comparisons</a>, <a href="#l">Legal and regulatory</a>, <a href="#x">Launch and operations</a>, <a href="#d">Builders</a></td></tr>
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<h2 id="m">Mining and chips</h2>
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<div class="status"><span class="badge b-answered-by-design">Answered by design</span></div>
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<details><summary>The answer as first written</summary><p>Monero chose the CPU for egalitarian reasons and accepted botnets as the price. Igneum chooses the GPU because the thesis is paid proving, which CPUs cannot do, and refuses a CPU lane because of botnets. It is a different trade, and the litepaper should say "Monero's technique, applied to GPUs" rather than "finished".</p></details>
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<div class="head"><span class="id">C2</span><h3>vs Monero: "no chip in seven years" is not proof</h3><span class="date">5 October 2026</span></div>
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<div class="head"><span class="id">C2</span><h3>vs Monero: "no chip in seven years" is not proof</h3><span class="date">6 October 2026</span></div>
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<blockquote>Absence of a public RandomX ASIC is not evidence one cannot exist. Monero is also a small prize.</blockquote>
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<div class="status"><span class="badge b-conceded">Conceded, stated</span> <span class="did">5 October 2026, night): <code>a repository file</code>, Mining, "no chip publicly shipped, approximate" and "Monero is precedent, not proof"; <code>a repository file</code>, hero, "a chip gains too little to take your place". Was: Conceded, label needed.</span></div>
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<div class="status"><span class="badge b-closed-by-rule-or-decided">Closed by the fact</span> <span class="did">6 October 2026, night): a public RandomX chip now exists, Bitmain's Antminer X9, shipping from July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270). Every sentence that leaned on its absence was rewritten under X34; "2019 (approximate)" stays on both pages.</span></div>
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<details><summary>The answer as first written</summary><p>True. "No chip publicly shipped, approximate" is the defensible phrasing. The argument from Monero is precedent, not proof, and the bounty exists because precedent is not proof.</p></details>
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<div class="status"><span class="badge b-fixed-or-built">Fixed, stated</span> <span class="did">6 October 2026, night, the owner's ruling): both sentences read "The public benchmark with a leaderboard ships with the public testnet." (<code>a repository file</code>, For miners and Questions miners ask). The gate is one the reader already knows from the roadmap's phase 5. The 5 October answers in M1, X1 and the overclaims list that name January 2027 are the history of the plan and stay as written.</span></div>
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<details><summary>The answer as first written</summary><p>The month was the plan of 3 October 2026. The benchmark tool is part of the testnet's go checklist, so it ships with the testnet; no month is given for either.</p></details>
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<div class="head"><span class="id">X34</span><h3>RandomX described as chip-free</h3><span class="date">6 October 2026</span></div>
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<blockquote>The home page said the random program 'has kept chips off Monero since 2019', the litepaper said Monero ran on RandomX 'with no chip publicly shipped' and spoke of 'Monero's seven years without a public chip'. Bitmain's Antminer X9, a RandomX chip, ships from July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270), and RandomX 2.0 shipped on 25 March 2026. Every sentence that said or implied RandomX is chip-free, or that Monero's approach has held, was wrong.</blockquote>
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<div class="status"><span class="badge b-fixed-or-built">Fixed, stated</span> <span class="did">6 October 2026, night, from the cryptanalysis research): four sentences corrected, each with the X9 as the stated fact and its date; every sentence that only names the technique stands.</span></div>
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<details><summary>The answer as first written</summary><p>The precedent Igneum cites is now a complete one: a fixed random program held CPU mining for about seven years and then a chip shipped. Igneum's program changes every hour from a genesis-fixed schedule, its dataset grows, and the chip model on the numbers page prices the chip that stores the dataset rather than assuming none can be built. The X9's rate and power are Bitmain's published figures, not our measurement.</p></details>
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<h2 id="p">Proving and the zkEVM</h2>
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<div class="head"><span class="id">P23</span><h3>An unwound transaction leaves the node's view until its sender resends it</h3><span class="date">6 October 2026</span></div>
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<thead><tr><th>Piece</th><th>Closest precedent</th><th>What Igneum adds</th><th>State, 5 Oct 2026</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>A mining program that regenerates itself, for GPUs</td><td>RandomX on Monero since 2019, for CPUs, a program per hash. ProgPoW, as KAWPOW on Ravencoin since 2020, changes the maths inside a fixed program shape every few blocks on GPUs (approximate)</td><td>A whole kernel per hour compiled to native code, a daily dataset from a 256 MB cache, a verifiable delay before the seed, era draws from a genesis reserve</td><td>Measured: hourly swaps on Apple, NVIDIA and AMD cards on the live devnet, 4 October 2026</td></tr>
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<tr><td>A mining program that regenerates itself, for GPUs</td><td>RandomX on Monero since 2019, for CPUs, a program per hash; its first chip, Bitmain’s Antminer X9, ships from July 2026. ProgPoW, as KAWPOW on Ravencoin since 2020, changes the maths inside a fixed program shape every few blocks on GPUs (approximate)</td><td>A whole kernel per hour compiled to native code, a daily dataset from a 256 MB cache, a verifiable delay before the seed, era draws from a genesis reserve</td><td>Measured: hourly swaps on Apple, NVIDIA and AMD cards on the live devnet, 4 October 2026</td></tr>
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<tr><td>The mining card does paid, useful, verifiable work</td><td>Primecoin's prime chains in 2013 were not useful. Aleo ran proving as consensus and the fastest prover won (both approximate)</td><td>Proving kept apart from the lottery; shards assigned by sortition, not by speed</td><td>Implemented: proving v0 on the live devnet since 5 October 2026. The job market for other chains is Designed</td></tr>
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<tr><td>A proof-of-work chain where every block is proven</td><td>zkEVMs run as rollups on proof-of-stake Ethereum. Conflux has run GPU-mined EVM apps on a DAG since 2020, without proofs (approximate)</td><td>Proven state on a proof-of-work base layer, produced by the miners themselves</td><td>Implemented in part: shards proven and paid on the devnet. The aggregated block proof checked in consensus is Designed</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Finality held by miners and not moved by hour-long rentals</td><td>Decred votes with stake. Horizen penalises hidden chains. Kaspa limits merge depth (approximate)</td><td>Vote weight is 30 days of blocks per key. Hashrate that appeared today has no vote</td><td>Implemented: rule v2 live on the devnet, first lock 4 October 2026. External review is owed at gate 3</td></tr>
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<p>Three ideas carry the chip resistance. <strong>The hash rewrites itself.</strong> A new program every hour, drawn from the chain. Its memory pattern changes with it. The rules change on a schedule fixed at launch. No release, no vote. These are automatic schedule changes: they defeat a chip wired for one datapath and they need no human fork. Against a chip that stores the dataset every drawn parameter is firmware, and what meets that chip is the latency-shadow work (class v4) and the price per joule (the Horizon lane analysis, 6 October 2026, section 5.4; ledger M32). <strong>It waits on memory, not maths.</strong> Every hash is a chain of random reads into a table too big for a chip to carry. The wait is the same physics for everyone. <strong>Miners hold the switch.</strong> Spare defences are written into the rules, switched off. A miner signal turns one on, at the class-change threshold: miners signal three things at three thresholds, 60 percent of blue blocks over two weeks for a parameter genesis leaves open, 90 percent for an upgrade (new code), and 95 percent with a floor height for a class change. No fork.</p>
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<p>No hash has stayed free of chips forever. Igneum does not claim to. It states the gain its own model finds, the response takes a week, and both are measured. The model is public: <a href="/bench#counter-asic-2-0-the-numbers">the numbers</a>; the claim is tested by paid independent cryptanalysis and the public benchmark. Monero has run on RandomX since 2019 with no chip publicly shipped, approximate; that is precedent, not proof.</p>
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<p>No hash has stayed free of chips forever. Igneum does not claim to. It states the gain its own model finds, the response takes a week, and both are measured. The model is public: <a href="/bench#counter-asic-2-0-the-numbers">the numbers</a>; the claim is tested by paid independent cryptanalysis and the public benchmark. Monero ran on RandomX from 2019 (approximate) with no chip publicly shipped until Bitmain’s Antminer X9 in July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270). About seven years of hold and then a chip: that is the record Igneum’s hourly program and its chip model are built against.</p>
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<p>One thing takes a person, here and on every chain that exists: writing new code. A chain cannot safely write its own generator, and it cannot safely tell a chip from a wave of honest new cards by hashrate alone. If the design above ever failed, anyone could publish a new generator and miners would switch it on by signalling, as Monero's community can fork. Igneum is built to make that day unlikely, and does not depend on avoiding it.</p>
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<p>RandomX has kept chips off Monero since 2019 (approximate) by making the mining program random, so the only hardware that runs it well is the hardware everyone already owns. Igneum takes the same principle to graphics cards and adds what RandomX never had.</p>
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<p>RandomX kept chips off Monero from 2019 (approximate) by making the mining program random, so the hardware that ran it well was the hardware everyone already owned. That hold ended: Bitmain’s Antminer X9 ships from July 2026 at 1 MH/s and 2,472 W, about USD 5,600, and RandomX 2.0 shipped on 25 March 2026 (monero-project/monero issue 10270). Igneum takes the same principle to graphics cards and adds what RandomX never had.</p>
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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>Every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves; 12 GB and up mine and prove; 24 GB on the stock server (eleven rented cards, RTX 3060 to RTX 5090, 6 October 2026); they sell proofs to other chains. AMD and Apple cards mine, and a prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Track record</td><td>No chip publicly shipped in seven years, approximate</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 (github.com/igneum-network/spec). The node, the miner and the wallet are in a private repository until the public testnet</td></tr>
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<tr><td>Track record</td><td>About seven years without a public chip, then Bitmain’s Antminer X9, shipping from July 2026</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 (github.com/igneum-network/spec). The node, the miner and the wallet are in a private repository until the public testnet</td></tr>
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<p>Measured so far: the same hourly program, generated on an Apple M5 Max, compiled by Apple's Metal and NVIDIA's CUDA on an RTX 5090, produced identical hashes on both, 192 of 192 across two programs. On a 1 GB dataset the 5090 ran at about 228 million hashes a second and the Mac at about 45 million, both bound by random memory access rather than arithmetic. Those are prototype figures, not mining rates. The first prototype dataset was a closed-form function, and a miner could compute items instead of loading them: measured 111x faster that way on the Mac. The 256 MB cache construction replaced it on 3 October 2026. With the cache, computing items on the fly runs 4.8x slower than loading them, measured on the Mac, and the honest rate is unchanged on both vendors. Open: the same shortcut ratio on NVIDIA and on a discrete AMD card, and the time-memory trade-off between the two measured points. Inside the 5090's 96 MB cache the same program ran nearly six times faster, which is why the dataset starts at 2 GB and grows. On 4 October 2026 the live devnet crossed an hourly program change on all three vendors with no pause and no rejected block: a Mac at 26.7 million hashes a second, an RTX 5090 at 123 million and an integrated AMD chip at 2.7 million, every hash doing 128 distinct reads of the memory-hard dataset.</p>
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<p>Here are the limits, stated before anyone else states them.</p>
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<li><strong>A proof in seconds.</strong> Not at launch. Proving a full block today needs a cluster of 100 to 200 consumer GPUs, approximate, so Igneum launches with proofs within about a minute and tightens as hardware improves. Users still see their transaction land in one second.</li>
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<li><strong>A chip is impossible.</strong> No. A chip wired for one program is a bad bet, because the program moves before it ships. A programmable chip is not stopped by the moving target: everything it needs is public at genesis and every drawn parameter is firmware to it (an address permute, a rotator, an immediate table), so the defence against it is the latency-shadow work (class v4) and the price per joule, not the schedule (the Horizon lane analysis, 6 October 2026, section 5.4; ledger M32). The published model (5 October 2026) prices the strongest chip we can name, one with the whole cache on-die computing dataset items on the fly, at 0.92x the hash rate of an RTX 5090 per unit of silicon with a 3x fixed-function allowance, approximate. The same model, drawn out to the chip that stores the dataset (6 October 2026): The strongest recompute chip we can price, holding the whole 256 MiB cache on-die, reaches under 1x per chip against an RTX 5090. A memory-controller chip that stores the whole dataset reaches 1.2x per chip and, in our model, 5x to 9x per joule; the Ethash chips of this class reached 2.1x to 4.8x. The lever against it, program work in the latency shadow, is measured and in its gates: it brings the chip to about 2x. Sources: the chip model analysis (6 October 2026); the Ethash rows of the ASIC history (Linzhi Phoenix 2020, Jasminer X4 2021, Antminer E9 2022); Counter ASIC 3.0 item 8 (100,000 ops per hash: the chip's per-joule edge over the RTX 5090 falls from 5.6x to 2.1x on GDDR7 at a chip core equal to the GPU's, the 5090 at 0.2% less rate, gates G1 to G6 in progress). No hash has stayed free of chips forever; Igneum does not claim to. Monero's seven years without a public chip are precedent, not proof, and a small prize: they say nothing about the price of a chip with the 256 MB cache on its die, and that price is a cost model, not a measurement.</li>
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<li><strong>A chip is impossible.</strong> No. A chip wired for one program is a bad bet, because the program moves before it ships. A programmable chip is not stopped by the moving target: everything it needs is public at genesis and every drawn parameter is firmware to it (an address permute, a rotator, an immediate table), so the defence against it is the latency-shadow work (class v4) and the price per joule, not the schedule (the Horizon lane analysis, 6 October 2026, section 5.4; ledger M32). The published model (5 October 2026) prices the strongest chip we can name, one with the whole cache on-die computing dataset items on the fly, at 0.92x the hash rate of an RTX 5090 per unit of silicon with a 3x fixed-function allowance, approximate. The same model, drawn out to the chip that stores the dataset (6 October 2026): The strongest recompute chip we can price, holding the whole 256 MiB cache on-die, reaches under 1x per chip against an RTX 5090. A memory-controller chip that stores the whole dataset reaches 1.2x per chip and, in our model, 5x to 9x per joule; the Ethash chips of this class reached 2.1x to 4.8x. The lever against it, program work in the latency shadow, is measured and in its gates: it brings the chip to about 2x. Sources: the chip model analysis (6 October 2026); the Ethash rows of the ASIC history (Linzhi Phoenix 2020, Jasminer X4 2021, Antminer E9 2022); Counter ASIC 3.0 item 8 (100,000 ops per hash: the chip's per-joule edge over the RTX 5090 falls from 5.6x to 2.1x on GDDR7 at a chip core equal to the GPU's, the 5090 at 0.2% less rate, gates G1 to G6 in progress). No hash has stayed free of chips forever; Igneum does not claim to. Monero’s RandomX held for about seven years before Bitmain’s Antminer X9 shipped in July 2026 (1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600; monero-project/monero issue 10270). That record says nothing about the price of a chip with the 256 MB cache on its die; that price is a cost model, not a measurement.</li>
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<li><strong>A guaranteed income floor.</strong> No. External proving is a small market today. Igneum's miners' electricity cost in it is close to power, but the price they must charge is the subsidy they forgo, which falls as one over network hash: an edge at scale and nothing more.</li>
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<li><strong>A memory-hard prototype on every vendor.</strong> Not yet. The 256 MB cache closed the shortcut on Apple silicon (computing items runs 4.8x slower than loading them, measured 3 October 2026). The same ratio on NVIDIA and on a discrete AMD card is Open.</li>
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<li><strong>Finality in the first month.</strong> No. No checkpoint locks until the 30-day window has 30 days of history. The first month of mainnet is proof of work with a 12-hour depth, and the text above says so wherever a day count appears.</li>
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['G4', 'admin keys in consensus'],
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['C2', 'since 2019 (approximate)'],
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['C2', '2019 (approximate)'],
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['X34', 'Antminer X9 shipped in July 2026: 1 MH/s at 2,472 W, about USD 5,600'],
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['X8', 'No listing is arranged, promised or sought by the project'],
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['X31', 'The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes.'],
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['X31', 'The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes.'],
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['C2', 'since 2019 (approximate)'],
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['C2', '2019 (approximate)'],
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['X34', 'Antminer X9 ships from July 2026 at 1 MH/s and 2,472 W, about USD 5,600, and RandomX 2.0 shipped on 25 March 2026'],
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['X34', 'with no chip publicly shipped until Bitmain'],
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['M2', 'computing items on the fly runs 4.8x slower than loading them'],
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['M4', 'ProgPoW, as KAWPOW on Ravencoin since 2020'],
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['G6', 'Pools can be bypassed on transaction choice'],
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['C2', 'precedent, not proof'],
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['X34', 'About seven years without a public chip, then Bitmain'],
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['C3', 'Chips arrived, as on Kaspa, whose hash was designed to welcome them'],
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['C3', 'Kaspa has run in production since 2021 (approximate)'],
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['C5', 'Inclusion is not confirmation on either chain'],
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