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Counter ASIC 3.0
Counter ASIC 3.0: the class v4 rehearsal
Six phases · updated 6 Oct 2026
The journey.
Six phases from the specification to a fair launch. Each closes at its gate, a measurement published whether it passes or fails, so there is no date to slip. Below the phases, the latest entries of the engineering log.
Under way; closes when the specification is out for external review
Under way
1. Specification
Mining generator, shard proving, finality rules, written for external review
Under way; closes at its gate
Under way
2. Prove the proving
Mining program proven on Apple, NVIDIA and AMD; shard proving benchmark on consumer cards still to run
Gate: A fixed published workload, job received to accepted proof on a declared consumer card, sustained with no growing backlog, reproduced by three independent operators
Live since 3 October 2026; closes at its gate
Under way
3. Devnet
BlockDAG node mining on the new program, GPU miners on three vendors, EVM execution in build
Gate: 1 block a second held with proofs under 60 s behind the tip
Closes when the finality design passes external review
Next
4. Finality and job market
Sustained-mining finality, external proving jobs, miner client with auto-switching
Gate: Finality design passes external review
Weeks away: when the go checklist closes
Next
5. Public testnet
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
After the testnet has passed its gate (1,000 independent miners for 30 days, rollup proofs on time) and one proving customer has signed: a customer paying for proofs at a published rate, or a letter of intent with a volume
Next
6. Mainnet fair launch
Genesis with no premine, 30-day ramp. No listing is arranged, promised or sought by the project
The log, newest first
Lately, in the log.
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16:01Z: Ember run 6 on the three-card Windows rig
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Counter ASIC 3.0 item 2
Counter ASIC 3.0 item 2: the per-day derivation
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Counter ASIC 3.0 item 8
Counter ASIC 3.0 item 8: program work in the latency shadow
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Counter ASIC 3.0 item 6
Counter ASIC 3.0 item 6: the reserve families' step costs
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Counter ASIC 3.0 gate run, the hash side
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16:01Z: Ember run 6 on the three-card Windows rig (RTX 5090, RTX 4070
16:01Z: Ember run 6 on the three-card Windows rig (RTX 5090, RTX 4070, RX 9070 XT)
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00:4xZ, the empty `/api/state` reply
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07:12Z to 07:17Z, the host's chain mode with --save-shards records…
07:12Z to 07:17Z, the host's chain mode with --save-shards records and --prev, on the Apple M5 Max's CPU
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07:52Z to 08:24Z, the segment-aligned prover beside the miner on the…
07:52Z to 08:24Z, the segment-aligned prover beside the miner on the RTX 5090 Windows rig's RTX 5090
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08:26Z to 08:35Z, the fast-time harness on the fresh-record rule
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12:25 to 13:20Z, the finality route: why 26 fresh nodes lost the…
12:25 to 13:20Z, the finality route: why 26 fresh nodes lost the seed every checkpoint
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Ember Tune: the two-knob efficiency tune, the fleet prior
Ember Tune: the two-knob efficiency tune, the fleet prior, and what the three-card Windows rig could measure tonight
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The SP1 CPU prover on the three-card Windows rig beside the miners,…
The SP1 CPU prover on the three-card Windows rig beside the miners, and the backend survey: no zkVM proves on AMD
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The 9070 XT on the eGPU
The 9070 XT on the eGPU: why 17.9 MH/s, and what moved
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Ember Tune: the two-knob efficiency tune, the fleet prior
Ember Tune: the two-knob efficiency tune, the fleet prior, and what the three-card Windows rig (RTX 5090, RTX 4070, RX 9070 XT) could measure tonight
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Read width of the lottery hash
Read width of the lottery hash: 4, 16 and 64-byte loads, a per-load mix, a written scratch; three cards
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The hot table on the M5 Max
The hot table on the M5 Max: a second table sized to GPU cache beside the 1 GiB dataset
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Mixer x4 and the cache growth rule
Mixer x4 and the cache growth rule: the class v3 dataset construction, with the x8 candidate
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The SP1 CPU prover on the three-card Windows rig (RTX 5090, RTX…
The SP1 CPU prover on the three-card Windows rig (RTX 5090, RTX 4070, RX 9070 XT) beside the miners, and the backend survey: no zkVM proves on AMD
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Proving v1: segment records, the chain rule
Proving v1: segment records, the chain rule, the unproven rule; what was measured tonight
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Dp4a-class throughput on the M5 Max
Dp4a-class throughput on the M5 Max: the dot4 emulation against the ALU chain
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Layer 3 scratch soundness
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Epoch length as an era parameter
Epoch length as an era parameter : the Apple M5 Max's compile-ahead per program
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Aggregation cost on the RTX 5090
Aggregation cost on the RTX 5090: what a per-block aggregation spends and what each lever gives
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The C4 fix: certificate-driven reorg
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EVM transaction relay
EVM transaction relay: three nodes in a chain, every transaction sent to one end included by the other two miners
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The prover carries both fee tables and the height switch
The prover carries both fee tables and the height switch: one pinned guest on either side of DAA 210,000
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FUD ledger sweep round 6
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Live devnet: real transactions, the first non-empty shard proven and…
Live devnet: real transactions, the first non-empty shard proven and paid, and the exporter's block structure fixed
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The program id split
The program id split: why the Apple M5 Max rejected the RTX 5090 Windows rig's proofs, and the verifier at 114 s
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Live devnet: the first shards proven, verified and paid
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One-click Windows workers
One-click Windows workers: what the Apple M5 Max could measure
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Proving: devnet v4 shards on the Apple M5 Max CPU, loaded machine
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First live finality lock: 77.4% of weight, 17 voters
First finality lock on the live devnet: checkpoint 242 at 77.4% of all weight, two hours after genesis
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The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Apple M5 Max could and could…
The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Apple M5 Max could and could not reproduce
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A node 60 s behind the clock is silently dead
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First machine on the one-click app: a 5090 at 118 MH/s
First machine on the Igneum Miner app: the RTX 5090 Windows rig's RTX 5090 at 118 MH/s, via Setup.exe
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Difficulty rule v2
Difficulty rule v2: the live oscillation, its cause, the DAG replay, the fix behind a height switch
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The observer stored nothing for 78 minutes, then 7,022 blocks in two…
The observer stored nothing for 78 minutes, then 7,022 blocks in two minutes
Nothing in the log matches that.
Every entry is a dated heading of the engineering log, where the commands and the hardware are. The phases and their gates are the litepaper’s roadmap.