Branch site-truth-2026-10-06 = master 9519a95 + merge of ledger-text (the 45 conceded sentences of the 5 October close) + cherry-picks 6141e01, 8c5b02f (the bounty strikes) and 1a238bc (review round 4 reddit) + this commit. The hero chip line follows the owner's pick of 16:25 UTC (draft (a) of docs/plans/counter-asic-3-status.md section 6 with the owner's last sentence). Every number carries its source beside it. No em dashes. Site build, identity-check.sh (0 hits over 224 files) and the private-string sweep of the built pages pass.
Changed sentences, before and after (lines are master's where the sentence existed):
site/index.html:343 hero
before: A custom chip gains under 2x, and the model is public.
after: 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. The model is public: the numbers.
before: An NVIDIA card with 24 GB or more proves every block and gets paid for it; AMD and Apple cards mine.
after: Every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves and is paid for it; 12 GB and up mine and prove; 24 GB on the stock server (eleven rented cards, RTX 3060 to RTX 5090, 6 October 2026, docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md). AMD and Apple cards mine.
site/index.html:372 before: miners active after: vote keys active in 10 min (a card runs several)
site/index.html:400 and the chain scene script before: the "proven" and "locked" counters counted the simulation while the scene carried the live label after: in live mode the counters read the observer (proven = blocks in the window every shard of which is verified, "not active" while the proving layer is off; locked = locked checkpoints in the window) and the simulated shard sparks stop
site/index.html:484 before: One click. The card mines; an NVIDIA card with 24 GB proves too. after: One click. The card mines; every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves, 12 GB and up mine and prove.
site/index.html:492 and site/miner.html:266 before: (the app is still labelled Igneum Miner until 0.3.6) after: (the app window still says Igneum Miner at 0.3.13)
site/litepaper.html:301 abstract before: A custom chip gains under 2x, and the model is public; the claim is tested by paid independent cryptanalysis and the public benchmark. after: draft (a) as on the hero, then the sources (chip-model-v3.md section 5; the Ethash rows of asic-resistance-history.md; Counter ASIC 3.0 item 8), then "The model is public; the claim is tested by paid independent cryptanalysis and the public benchmark."
site/litepaper.html:396 before: About one a second after: About one a second with the full fleet; 0.65 a second over the hour to 16:00 UTC on 6 Oct 2026 with one PC off (the live page's hour count, 2,325 blocks)
site/litepaper.html:400 before: version 0.3.5; 0.3.6 staged after: version 0.3.13 (6 Oct 2026); the app window still says Igneum Miner
site/litepaper.html:412 added after "not on maths or bandwidth.": Measured: an RTX 5090 hashes at 95 GB/s of useful 4-byte loads against 1,638 GB/s of sequential writes (engineering log, the RTX 5090 entries).
site/litepaper.html:424 before: It claims the gain is small, the response takes a week, and both are measured. after: It states the gain its own model finds, the response takes a week, and both are measured.
site/litepaper.html:440 (vs RandomX, Useful work) before: NVIDIA cards with 24 GB or more prove every block and sell proofs to other chains; AMD and Apple cards mine, ... after: 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, docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md); they sell proofs to other chains. AMD and Apple cards mine, ...
site/litepaper.html:452 before: Proving needs an NVIDIA card with 24 GB or more (32 GB until the fee switch of 6 October 2026; ...). AMD and Apple cards mine. A prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one. after: Proving: every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves; 12 GB and up mine and prove; 24 GB on the stock server. Measured on eleven rented cards ...: the RTX 3060 (12 GB) mines at 23.78 MH/s and proves the v1 shard beside its miner at an 8.9 GB peak in 37.5 s; the RTX 4060 (8 GB) proves it alone at 7.4 GB in 18.4 s; the RTX 4090 (24 GB) proves it on the stock SP1 server in 5.6 s at 17.4 GB. The patched server that fits the smaller cards is not yet in the shipped app. AMD and Apple cards mine. A prover for them lands when a zkVM ships one.
site/litepaper.html:454 before: The old 12 GB gate on the roadmap is withdrawn until a prover build with a smaller floor is measured. after: ... 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.
site/litepaper.html:562 (Hardware) before: 24 GB proves full shards (measured on a 32 GB card's allocation; a 24 GB card has not run it yet) and 32 GB mines and proves on one card, measured 5 October 2026 on this prover build (a 12 GB card does not prove on it: the GPU prover's floor is 13.9 GB). after: 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, docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md).
site/litepaper.html:645 (Governance, admin keys) appended: On the devnet the activation heights and one execution-state restart (6 October 2026) reach every node through the signed update manifest, so on the devnet the release key acts as the operator; the sentence above holds for mainnet consensus only once that path is closed, and the public testnet terms will say which parameters still travel that way.
site/litepaper.html, Questions miners ask added: the entry "Don't ASICs make a chain safer?" (three parts and a five-row table; the rental row cites the fleet's bench entry that lands tonight and the 50-miner wave row reads "measurement tonight")
site/litepaper.html:733 (What Igneum does not claim, the chip item) before: ... approximate; the claim is under 2x, the margin is stated on the numbers page, and the next lever is named there. 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. after: ... approximate. The same model, drawn out to the chip that stores the dataset (6 October 2026): draft (a) with its sources. 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.
site/litepaper.html, the four bounty sentences (301, 424, 684, 686): struck as on ca2-coord 6141e01 and 8c5b02f
site/litepaper.html, the 45 sentences of the 5 October close: as on ledger-text a795b02 (merged)
site/miner.html:7, 13, 21 (meta) before: and an NVIDIA card with 24 GB proves. after: and every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves.
site/miner.html:252 before: Install. Start. The card mines. An NVIDIA card with 24 GB proves too. after: Install. Start. The card mines. Every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves; 12 GB and up mine and prove.
site/miner.html:308 before: ... and, on an NVIDIA card with 24 GB or more, the prover. AMD and Apple cards mine; after: ... and, on an NVIDIA card, the prover: every NVIDIA card from 8 GB proves; 12 GB and up mine and prove; 24 GB on the stock server (eleven rented cards, ...); the patched server for the smaller cards is not yet in the shipped app. AMD and Apple cards mine;
site/evidence.html before: hand-kept, "30 claims · 4 Oct 2026", row 21 "unwritten" after: generated by site/build.mjs from docs/evidence.md (31 rows, the counts, the date), scrubbed as /bench is
docs/evidence.md row 17 before: The chip resistance target: a chip gains under 2x over a GPU after: The chip resistance claim: the strongest recompute chip under 1x per chip against an RTX 5090; the stored-dataset chip 1.2x per chip and 5x to 9x per joule in the model (2.1x to 4.8x by the Ethash precedent); the latency-shadow lever, measured and in its gates, brings it to about 2x
docs/evidence.md the card-lifetime row numbered 22 under "What moved on 5 October" becomes row 31 of the table; "Hetzner VMs" becomes "cloud VMs", "recommended to the project lead" becomes "recommended to the owner"
docs/fud-ledger.md, docs/fud-fixes.md taken from fud-close c6b0bad (167 entries); two lines reworded for the identity check (the log key, the log intake)
site/ledger.html new: every ledger entry with the critic's words, what was done, the status and the date, the count table on top (53 conceded, 54 fixed or built, 27 closed by rule or decided, 13 answered with evidence, 13 by design, 7 open); generated by tools/ledger-page.mjs
site/vercel.json the /ledger redirect removed
site/partials/footer.html "Ledger: every criticism" added under Read (so every page's footer changed)
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Fed by /api/explorer from the observer's tables. Latest blocks (hash, number, DAA, blue score, miner, txs, proof
records, time); a block's header, parents, children, mergeset, coinbase outputs, EVM transactions, shards, checkpoint
and certificate; an address's blocks, what they earned, vote keys and balance (eth_getBalance when EXPLORER_EVM_RPC is
set). Same tokens as live.html. vercel.json rewrites /block/:id and /address/:addr; the footer links the explorer; the
link checker skips template literals and resolves /api/<name> to its function. node tools/site-serve.mjs previews the
site with the functions in-process.
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Verified by grep and moved to "stated": M2, M4, M7, M9, M10, M13, F5, F10, P1, P4, P6, P7, P10, E5, G1, G2, G3, G4, G6, C2, C3, C5, C6, C8, C10, C11, M18, X1, X2, X7, X8, X9, X10, D2.
Written tonight, then moved: P3 (overclaim 25 plus the certificate-half numbers), M29 (the app paragraph rewritten to Ember 0.3.9), E16 text half (the 20% is burned under igneum-proving-pool-v0, provers paid from the execution-state escrow), L9 (devnet no-value line beside every download control, the tiles), L2 text half (no "so" clause), E17 text half (100,000-gas calls, fleet-size dependence), E13 (the six-row payment-route table in the litepaper Economics and the customer brief, from docs/design/payment-routes.md), E6 (the schedule as a bet), C13 (Monero's record does not price the die), L8 (Circle's decision), X3 (August 2027 under the proofs feed), M10 (overclaim 14 applied).
docs/fud-fixes.md gains section 2.7 with one row per group. Site rebuilt with node build.mjs (the live downloads index moved the HiveOS package to 0.3.9; journey.json regenerated from the log).
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Footer partial: imprint line with the registered address and the mailbox; Report a flaw mails hello@igneum.network with the spec issues as the second route. Litepaper: Who are you names the entity that ships the software, the team is pseudonymous with no team page, the ledger and the benchmark source are public with the repository at the public testnet, the last paragraph gives the mailbox and the address. Miner: the dev fee goes to Igneum Labs LTD. Evidence (md and page): repository private until the public testnet. Trademark FILING.md: applicant Igneum Labs LTD at the DIFC address. Identity check: the ledger and fixes file join the export list; the forbidden list notes that the registered address is allowed. Site rebuilt (bench page and journey picked up the txgen log entry).
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Downloads: packaging/ota/publish-public.sh publishes the current installers, the HiveOS package and the two signed
manifests into dl/public/ with no token in any URL, writes the four /public/ aliases as vercel.json rewrites and an
unsigned index for the site; publish-manifest.sh --public and ship-app.mjs --public run it on every release (dry run
and self-test cover it). Nothing removed from the token folders.
Site: the miner and wallet buttons link the public aliases and show the version and size from the index, read at
build time (site/downloads.json is the offline snapshot); TESTNET_OPEN in build.mjs drops the "Public testnet: not yet
open" line on the go; the HiveOS Flight Sheet install line on the miner page; /faucet page.
HiveOS: igneum-hive-0.3.8.tar.gz from the 0.3.8 node (2b6d23ef, PC build job) and the zig-built Linux workers.
Faucet: site/api/faucet.mjs (10 IGN per address and per IP per day, Neon table faucet_grants, EIP-1559 transfer signed
by site/lib/eth.mjs with no dependencies: keccak, RLP, secp256k1 with RFC 6979), FAUCET_KEY and FAUCET_RPC from the
Vercel env only; 15 unit tests with a fake database and node, run in CI.
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Home: hero and job-card buttons say what exists; the dev fee named beside the emission split; 0 admin keys in consensus; the log's day-one note. Miner and wallet pages: downloads open at the public testnet, the devnet is private. Nav CTA is The miner; footer gets the issues route. Journey phase 6 drops listings.
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Pages
- site/miner.html (/miner): hero with the live dashboard, "Hash, prove, get paid", every feature in six groups with one
line each (one click and GPU detection, one client with identities and the hourly swap table, signed updates at a safe
moment, variant racing / fleet tuning / efficiency sweep / latency / remote signed jobs, watchdog and clock check with
the recoveries table, the log and the bench table), "Why Igneum Ember stays ahead" (the six levers of 4 Oct 2026 with
their measured state; the latency row labelled approximate, from the 0.3.6 plan), the dev fee section with the exact
wording of docs/design/miner-dev-fee.md, Get the miner. Every number links to its /bench entry.
- site/wallet.html (/wallet): hero with the wallet window, the three finality states with the verified-final transaction,
the four checks the wallet makes, features (create or import with Argon2id + XChaCha20-Poly1305, send with the fee
shown, QR drawn locally, history with rewards, node source order, MetaMask export), the timed first run on a test
network (5 Oct 2026, wallet-v1 log entry), Get the wallet.
- site/index.html: the miner and wallet sections become summaries, each with a framed screenshot, pills and a Read more
link; #mine and #wallet anchors kept.
- site/partials/nav.html: Miner and Wallet entries, the CTA to /miner#get; the Miners entry goes (the bench page is
linked from /miner, the footer and the Miner entry marks it current). The bar needs 941 px for eight items on one
line, so the menu now applies up to 940 px (head.html) and labels never wrap.
- site/partials/footer.html: a Run column (the miner, the wallet, the GPU bench table, the dev fee).
- site/build.mjs: PRODUCT table, the one place the miner's name lives (full "Igneum Ember", name "Ember", app "Igneum
Miner" for the bundle and window, caption for screenshots); every <span data-product> is stamped at build. miner.html
and wallet.html registered; /miners marks the Miner nav entry; journey entries lose a leading comma left by a
stripped bracket.
Visuals (site/img, WebP, 2x, under 101 KB each)
- miner-dashboard.webp: real screenshot of the miner app on this Mac (live devnet, Apple M5 Max), footer with the host
name and the address cropped, the machine id removed before capture.
- wallet-home.webp and wallet-final.webp: real screenshots of Igneum Wallet v1 (release build from wallet-v1) on a
private test network driven by tools/wallet-testnet/run.mjs; the throwaway addresses are replaced by example strings.
- Drawn in CSS: the device frames, the three finality states, the hash / prove / get paid steps, the dev-fee switch.
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Owner's decision, 5 October 2026: the proposed testnet identity (docs/testnet/README.md) and the proposed fee floors
and prover-gas table (docs/analysis/base-fee-floor.md, spec 05 section 5.10) are adopted as proposed. The three
documents now say "adopted 5 October 2026" with the sign-off noted and the per-network rule written in: the testnet
and the mainnet carry calibrated v1 from genesis; the devnet and the simnet keep the prototype set until the
fees_v1_activation_daa height switch (fork branch release-0.3.6) moves them.
Conflicts (generated site files): index.html keeps the 0.3.5 dev-fee sentence and testnet-prep's testnet-terms card;
litepaper.html keeps the 0.3.5 two-paragraph dev-fee text and testnet-prep's MetaMask paragraph; journey.json keeps
the 0.3.5 feed (newest 40); sitemap.xml keeps /miners and /wallet. Site rebuilt with node site/build.mjs.
Also: infra/fast-time/override-60x.json carries fees_v1_activation_daa 0 (the fork's fast-time test wants every
override field); docs/plans/release-0.3.6.md (the inputs push must run from this tree before the workflow verifies
the signature; the devnet rollout of the fee floor as a height switch; the morning order).
Checks: node site/build.mjs; link-check 324 links 0 broken; check-workflow-shell 0 findings; test-inputs-signing.sh
16 of 16 with the signer built from this tree; bash -n on the four shell files; the PowerShell parse rule at the
0.3.5 baseline (3 hits, unchanged).
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- docs/analysis/base-fee-floor.md: the base-fee floors (100 gwei per gas, 10,000 gwei per pgas), B_p 120,000 and
S_p 30,000 pgas, the calibrated v1 pgas table (intrinsic 300, modexp 10 + 1 per 10 bytes) from the measured 44
cycles per EVM gas and 9 cycles per pgas, with the arithmetic and a stated price assumption; spec 05 section 5.10.
The parameters are implemented on the node fork branch testnet-params (vendor, not in this repository).
- docs/testnet/README.md: igneum-testnet-1 (chain id 4462, ports 268xx, frozen genesis 2026-10-05T00:00:00Z with
its message and hash, mainnet finality window, every switch from genesis, no override file) and the reset policy.
Every value proposed, for the morning sign-off.
- docs/plans/history-rewrite.md: G14, the exact git-filter-repo pass, the dry run on a throwaway mirror clone (0
identity hits, 0 secrets, every stamp +0000, 312 commits), what breaks and the order for the morning.
- G13: app/igneum-app/src/inputs.rs and igneum-ota-sign sign-inputs / verify-inputs; push-inputs.sh signs
payload-inputs.json with the OTA key and pins the node commit (packaging/windows/node-source.pin);
windows.yml verifies the signature with the embedded key, the zip, every file and the pin before building and
uploads the verified record; fetch-ci-artifacts.sh signs the update manifest only with --sign-manifest <run-id>
after re-verifying that run's inputs. test-inputs-signing.sh (16 cases) and tools/ci/check-workflow-shell.mjs.
- site: testnet terms on the download section, wallet.html (wallet_addEthereumChain, chain ids 4462/4463, IGN, 18
decimals), the litepaper's app paragraph (MetaMask and the coming Igneum Wallet, no hardware wallet) and the
miner fee sentence (no protocol fee; optional 1% in the miner software, off with one flag). node site/build.mjs
and the link check pass.
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