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6 October 2026. Four widgets plus the welcome message. Each "Text area" widget takes Reddit markdown (bold, links, lists render; tables do not render reliably in widgets, so none are used). Reddit's limit per text widget is 5,120 characters (approximate; the kit's instruction set it there); the longest widget here is under 1,700. Sources are listed after each widget and are not pasted.

Widget 1: Text area, title "What Igneum is"

A proof-of-work chain built for graphics cards, where the miners also prove every block with zero-knowledge proofs and sell proving to other chains. It runs the Ethereum virtual machine, so anything built for Ethereum runs on Igneum unchanged. Finality is locked by miners weighted by 30 days of their own blocks: no stake, no other chain, and hashrate that appeared today has no vote. There is no premine, no pre-sale, no treasury taken from emission and no fee to any team in the protocol; the one cost is the miner software's optional 1% dev fee, off with one flag.

One pseudonymous founder, working with AI systems. Devnet since 3 October 2026. Coins on it have no value. Nothing is for sale.

Sources: litepaper abstract and lead (site/litepaper.html, version 0.2, updated 5 October 2026); "No fund, no foundation, no fee to the team"; "Who are you?".

Widget 2: Button widget or Text area, title "Links"

If the Button widget is used, one button per line with the label and the address. As a text area:

- [igneum.network](https://igneum.network): the site
- [Litepaper](https://igneum.network/litepaper): how the chain works, and what it does not claim
- [Live devnet](https://igneum.network/live): blocks, vote keys, locks, proving, events
- [Bench table](https://igneum.network/miners): measured cards and rates
- [Ledger](https://igneum.network/ledger): every criticism, its status and date
- [Evidence](https://igneum.network/evidence): every public claim with its label
- [Spec repository](https://github.com/igneum-network/spec): specification, reference hash, test vectors, simulators
- [Download the miner](https://igneum.network/miner#get): Windows, macOS, Linux, HiveOS, with the hash beside the button
- [Explorer](https://igneum.network/explorer)
- [Public stats API](https://igneum.network/api/stats): the JSON the weekly numbers come from

Widget 3: Text area, title "What is true today"

Five dated facts. Replace a fact when the bench log moves it; keep the date on every line.

Every line names its entry in the engineering log at igneum.network/bench or the file in the spec repository.

1. 3 October 2026: the devnet's genesis. It has run since, on the project's machines, two outside laptops and, from 6 October, rented cards. Coins on it have no value and the chain may be reset. (Bench log, "igneum-node devnet v0"; litepaper, "Live on the devnet".)

2. 4 October 2026: the first hourly program swap on the live chain. Apple, NVIDIA and AMD cards compiled the next program ahead and switched with no pause and 0 rejected blocks. (Bench log, "first hourly program swap on the live devnet".)

3. 4 October 2026: the first finality lock, checkpoint 242, at 77.4% of all weight from 17 vote keys, two hours after genesis. (Bench log, "first finality lock on the live devnet".)

4. 5 October 2026: the first shards proven on a miner's card, verified and paid from the block: 388 shards, 446.13 IGN by 16:02 UTC. (Bench log, "the first shards proven, verified and paid"; evidence table row 21.)

5. 6 October 2026: eleven rented NVIDIA cards from the RTX 3060 to the RTX 5090 each proved the same shard with a patched prover; the 3060 mined at 23.78 MH/s and proved beside its miner at an 8.9 GB peak. That prover is not yet in the shipped app. (docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md.)

What is NOT done: no external review has been paid for yet; nothing has been reproduced by anyone outside the project; the installer is unsigned; the aggregated block proof checked in consensus is designed, not built. The litepaper's "What Igneum does not claim" lists the rest.

Sources: docs/bench-log.md entries named; docs/evidence.md row 21; docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md (branch gpu-fleet, 6 October 2026, 13:27 UTC); site/litepaper.html "What Igneum does not claim" and "Two caveats".

Widget 4: Text area, title "Start here"

New here? Read these two pinned posts first.

**Start here**: who builds this, what runs today, what is not done, how to help, and the one-account rule.

**Launch post**: the project in one page, with the command that runs the test vectors on your own machine.

Then the wiki: FAQ (twenty questions with sources), Mining (which cards mine and prove), Proving (tiers and what a proof is paid), Ledger (how a criticism becomes a row), Glossary.

Found a flaw? Post it with the Ledger flair, or email hello@igneum.network. It goes on the ledger with your name if you want it.

The two bold lines become links once the posts exist: edit the widget and paste each post's URL.

Welcome message (Mod Tools > Community settings > Welcome message; shown to new members once)

Welcome to r/igneum. Three things before you post.

1. Nothing is for sale and devnet coins have no value, so there is no price to talk about here.
2. Every number comes with its source: a bench-log entry, a ledger id, an API field or the command you ran.
3. Criticism is the point. Post it with the Ledger flair; it goes on the public ledger with your name if you want it.

The pinned "Start here" post has the rest. One account per person; the project speaks from u/igneum_network and the numbers come from u/igneum_bot, which never replies.

Community description shown under the title (the "Description" field in appearance; same 500-character field as settings.md Field 3)

Use settings.md Field 3 verbatim.