Main's decision of 6 October 2026. CLAUDE.md 'Running agents on this Mac': every Linux and Windows cargo build and every
Linux test suite goes to igneum-build-1 through tools/build-remote.sh and tools/cross-remote.sh; the PCs keep GPU and
Windows-runtime jobs; the Mac keeps macOS binaries, the DMG and Metal tests under the lock. -Wl,--no-insert-timestamp in
cross-remote.sh, proto-cuda/windows-node/cross-build.sh and jobbuild.rs (two box builds byte-identical, verified).
The empty-commit class: tools/ci/commit-string-check.sh (self-test in ci.yml, shown firing on a Mac worktree build and
passing on a box build) runs on every igneumd from the three build scripts; push-build-inputs.sh adds node.commit_full,
the PC job writes a minimal node/.git from it at extract and cleans kaspa-build-info on a new commit (4 jobbuild tests
pass, run on the box); cross-build.sh refuses a worktree and cleans on a new commit. Plan: second worktree's clean build
1 min 18 s with sccache 604 hits of 993.
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remote-run.sh runs on the box behind BR_* exports: slot, sccache stats, the RESULT line and one JSON line per run in
/srv/builds/_log/builds.jsonl (v 1, id, host, tool, worktree, crate, kind, command, target, branch, sha, label, agent, slot,
wait_s, queued_at, start, end, secs, exit, compiles, sccache, load_end, artefacts; written on success, failure and the 2 h
slot give-up), the label ending in '; agent=<name>' (IGNEUM_AGENT, default the worktree). The remote checkout is a branch and
build-remote.sh cleans kaspa-build-info (release profile) on a new commit, so the box's igneumd carries its commit hash
(no Mac worktree build does: .git is a file there). cross-remote.sh fetches the GCC 13 runtime DLLs beside an exe that
imports libstdc++-6.dll. The plan holds the three benchmarks: clean node build 1 min 27 s (Mac 12 to 18 min), incremental
7 s (Mac 2 to 15 min), Windows cross 1 min 44 s (Mac 4 min 49 s to 12 min 28 s), their consequences and the proposed rules.
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The audit (docs/plans/miner-ui-3-audit.md, 27 screenshots): no money anywhere, three red n/a per Apple row,
tuning split across two pages, 370 px of controls per card, Prove's 95 words and four zeros, Node's eleven
numbers, the jobs table on every Updates page, fixes two taps away, no light mode, no layout under 900 px,
developer lines on user surfaces.
The design (docs/plans/miner-ui-3.md): four sections (Mine, Earnings, Prove, Settings); the card row carries the
state word with its reason, MH/s, W with MH/W, £ a day at the user's electricity price, °C, Tune, the switch,
and its details under a chevron (cap slider, identities, pin, telemetry, the tune table); the tune line per row
(not tuned yet / tuning: step k of n with a bar / tuned N ago · point · next check <weekday> / measured only and
why / pinned / stopped / fleet pause); Tune all; the goal (Efficiency, Balanced, Maximum) with its £ a day; Power
control as one switch where it is the fix; the node as one line with Details; updates as one card; earnings money
first, IGN second; proving as a tier sentence per card; every costly action confirmed in place (quit, change
address, show key, trust mode), no dialogs; light and dark; a bottom tab bar under 720 px.
The build: index.html, app.css, app.js rewritten on the same engine routes; the pure blocks keep their API and
carry ember-tune's tuneNotice, tuneWord, toggle states and tune-line test (e9738dd) so the merge is clean; the
update card is named Igneum Miner; the Rust side is untouched. node --test on the four UI files: 35 pass.
Screenshots of the result: docs/plans/miner-ui-3/n00 to n26.
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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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PC 2 job run-ca3-shadow-pc2-20261006 (card empty, every pack bit-exact against the Mac): the 5090 holds its rate to
150,800 ops per hash and loses 2.7 percent at 199,600 under the app's 431 W cap, which binds from 102,100 ops up and
takes the clock from 3,037 to 1,834 MHz (86 MH/s at 330,700 ops); 350 W at the control, 2.65 to 3.27 microjoules per
hash; marginal ALU energy 10 to 13 pJ per counted op. Clock rows OWED (nvidia-smi refused -lgc without rights). Chip
side at N = 100,000 and k = 1: 2.1x over the 5090 on GDDR7, 0.9x over the M5 Max. GO at mx8+sh256x27.
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The console-window class (the project lead, 5 October 2026: "Windows Command Processor" windows on PC 1 whenever a remote job runs).
Measured on PC 1 (ae432dc7, Windows 11 Pro 26200, default terminal "Let Windows decide" = Windows Terminal 1.24) with
tools/windows/console-watch.ps1 (job run-20261005-182528): no child a job script starts from the app's headless
console opens a window (powershell, cmd, query, curl, nvidia-smi, wsl --status, a distro, interop cmd and powershell,
powershell -WindowStyle Hidden: 0 windows each); Start-Process in a new console opens a Terminal window (the known-failed
case: 2 windows), the same with -WindowStyle Hidden opens none (the known-finished case). The elevated path
(Start-Process -Verb RunAs -WindowStyle Hidden through the AppInfo service) is the one road left; its watcher
(console-watch-elevated.ps1, job run-20261005-184610) was cancelled at the UAC prompt.
- platform.rs: elevated_ps_line + elevated_command build the one PowerShell line every elevated launch uses (the NVIDIA
power cap, the sweep helper, the clock sync, an elevated remote job), -WindowStyle Hidden by construction; unit
tests on the line, the quoting and the Command.
- jobrun.rs: the elevated job path uses it; the relaunch helper's Start-Process carries the reason it has no
-WindowStyle Hidden (igneum-app.exe is a windows-subsystem program).
- tools/ci/windows-spawn-check.mjs (+ ci.yml): fails when a Command::new in app/igneum-app/src is not quieted,
a creation_flags is not CREATE_NO_WINDOW alone, a Start-Process the Rust code writes lacks -WindowStyle Hidden or
-NoNewWindow, or host.cpp spawns without CREATE_NO_WINDOW / SW_HIDE; self-test on known-good and known-bad samples.
- tools/windows/console-watch.ps1, console-watch-bg.ps1, console-watch-elevated.ps1: the watchers (run jobs).
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The M5 Max ladder (Metal, packbench, IOReport GPU and DRAM watts without root): latency-bound to about 100,000 ops per
hash, the 5 percent point about 130,000, 11 to 27 W GPU at 100,000 ops, 0.78 to 1.40 microjoules per hash; the
verifier's law 2.06 ms + 3.2 us per 1,000 shadow instructions per warp on one core; every pack bit-exact. The
analysis file with the knob, the chip side (k = 1, 1.5, 0.3), the gates and the consequences; the bench-log entry;
the 5090 rows pending the PC 2 job (the playbook now carries the core-clock rows and the sh256x40 rung).
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docs/plans/counter-asic-3-derivation.md (the design, the acceptance test, the interpreter, the allowance argument,
the measurements, the PROPOSED reserve entry R0 for 1.13.2, what is owed), docs/analysis/chip-model-v3.md section 6
(the per-day derivation rows at 1.0x to 3x allowances), the bench-log entry, relay/playbooks/ca3-derive-pc2.ps1
(one PC 2 job: self-fetched packs zip, the installed worker through NVRTC, the card off only under test with its
key from settings.json). Verifier 4.875 / 4.944 ms per unit on one M5 Max core under the measure lock against
x8's 2.061 / 2.063; Metal build 29 ms against 22; hash rate equal; bit-exact on Metal and Apple OpenCL.
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docs/plans/funding.md rule 5: the bounty is escrowed and the benchmark live before daily
issuance crosses USD 20,000 a day, with the price-per-IGN table per halving period.
docs/plans/epoch-length.md section 11: the detector alert held 6 net windows recommends
the next shorter ladder step, per-tier costs at 2,400 and 600, the adversary's share per
compile class. Section 12: HBM FPGA parts with sources, reads in flight per watt against
the RTX 5090 (0.3x to 0.4x at Shuhai's measured rate, up to 1.9x at the unmeasured bank
ceiling), the two FPGA lanes in one table, and the ranking: layer 9 above layer 7.
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f = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1 on GDDR7 (the 5090's board), one HBM3 stack and eight HBM3 stacks, scored in energy per
hash, reads in flight per watt, rate per chip and dollars per MH/s against the RTX 5090 at 136.1 MH/s and 326 W.
The curve is monotone toward f = 1; the f = 1 chip reads 5.1x (GDDR7) to 9.2x (HBM3) per joule in the model and
2.1x to 4.8x by the Ethash precedent: over 2x. The mixer and item 2 do not touch it; the levers named are the
5090's watts under a power cap (a PC 2 job, owed) and program work in the latency shadow. Inputs cited with URLs
read 6 October 2026; the mixer counted from memhard.rs at 128 hoisted / 144 unhoisted ops per application.
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One row in the funding table (USD 80,000 to 160,000 for two independent reviews, basis the four RandomX reviews of 2019 at their published per-firm prices and person-days) and a section "The mixer cryptanalysis brief (Counter ASIC 3.0 item 3)": the target shape from memhard.rs and accept.rs, the ranked break list with the chip-model number each moves, deliverables and timebox, the soundness suite to re-run, acceptance criteria in the RandomX audit style, candidate reviewers with citations, the risk column against the two-publish rollout, the timing against the testnet go checklist, and the consequences per user tier. Nothing else in the file is touched.
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The statement and the pinned guests are unchanged; every fixture proof verifies as before. The defaults stay (batch-log2 22, SP1 defaults): the one knob that moves a mining card's prover costs a fifth of the hash rate; the plan carries the trade for the project lead and the batch fold for the next pin. Measured: docs/bench-log.md "aggregation cost on the RTX 5090"; the plan line: docs/plans/proving-v1.md "Aggregation cost (5 October, night)". Also: make-package's gate skips the exporter's .node-plan.json side files and takes the run lock for its execute step; the state-reply class (/api/state answering {} once paid_wei passes u64::MAX) found on the way and fixed on the app branch at 42f36b3.
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(cherry picked from commit ea38ece9eaa5949dd657cbfea5308c4948177ff8)
Source: the scratch engine's own log in collect ember-c35-collect-1 (06:59Z): 22:31:02Z '0.3.10 is available: downloading',
22:31:05Z 'update: starting the installer first ... ota-apply.ps1', and the installed app's 'quit:' at 22:31:06Z.
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