igneum/site/journey.json

{
  "updated": "2026-10-04",
  "stage": "phase-3",
  "phases": [
    {
      "id": "phase-1",
      "name": "Specification",
      "when": "Oct to Nov 2026",
      "status": "active",
      "line": "Mining generator, shard proving, finality rules, written for external review"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase-2",
      "name": "Prove the proving",
      "when": "Nov 2026 to Jan 2027",
      "status": "active",
      "line": "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"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase-3",
      "name": "Devnet",
      "when": "Started 3 Oct 2026, 20 nodes by Mar 2027",
      "status": "active",
      "line": "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"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase-4",
      "name": "Finality and job market",
      "when": "Apr to Jul 2027",
      "status": "next",
      "line": "Sustained-mining finality, external proving jobs, miner client with auto-switching",
      "gate": "Finality design passes external review and one rollup signs for testnet"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase-5",
      "name": "Public testnet",
      "when": "Aug to Oct 2027",
      "status": "next",
      "line": "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"
    },
    {
      "id": "phase-6",
      "name": "Mainnet fair launch",
      "when": "Nov 2027",
      "status": "next",
      "line": "Genesis with no premine, 30-day ramp, exchange listings after"
    }
  ],
  "log": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "First machine in the United States: a Windows laptop on an Intel integrated GPU, synced and voting",
      "short": "First machine in the United States: a laptop on an integrated GPU, synced and voting"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Shard proving on the RTX 5090: a full shard compressed in 10.9 s, a two-shard block aggregated in 2.2 s, all verified",
      "short": "Shard layer on the RTX 5090: a full shard proven in 10.9 s, a block aggregated in 2.2 s"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Cloud devnet: 12 igneumd nodes in 5 locations, inter-region latency, two Singapore partitions, hash-rate steps",
      "short": "Cloud devnet: 12 igneumd nodes in 5 locations, inter-region latency"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Correction: the 78-minute observer gap was the Apple M5 Max hibernating",
      "short": "Correction: the 78-minute observer gap was the Apple M5 Max hibernating"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Difficulty v2 rollout rehearsal on the 12-node the cloud provider network, binaries for the devnet, the devnet plan",
      "short": "Difficulty v2 rollout rehearsal on the 12-node the cloud provider…"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Difficulty rule v2 activated on the live devnet at DAA 33,000 by height switch, no fresh chain",
      "short": "Difficulty rule v2 switched on the live devnet by height, no fresh chain"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "First outside machine on the devnet: an Apple silicon laptop through the Igneum Miner app",
      "short": "First outside machine: a friend's Mac mining through the app"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "One-click Windows workers: what the Apple M5 Max could measure",
      "short": "One-click Windows workers"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Apple M5 Max could and could not reproduce",
      "short": "The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Apple M5 Max could and could…"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Difficulty rule v2: the live oscillation, its cause, the DAG replay, the fix behind a height switch",
      "short": "Difficulty rule v2"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "The observer stored nothing for 78 minutes, then 7,022 blocks in two minutes",
      "short": "The observer stored nothing for 78 minutes, then 7,022 blocks in two…"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "PC 2 at the 14:20 boundary: a worker stuck on the previous epoch",
      "short": "PC 2 at the 14:20 boundary: a worker stuck on the previous epoch"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Mac could and could not reproduce",
      "short": "The gfx1036 worker fault and what the Mac could and could not reproduce"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "A node 60 s behind the clock is silently dead",
      "short": "A node 60 s behind the clock is silently dead"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "First machine on the Igneum Miner app: PC 2's RTX 5090 at 118 MH/s, via Setup.exe",
      "short": "First machine on the one-click app: a 5090 at 118 MH/s"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "First finality lock on the live devnet: checkpoint 242 at 77.4% of all weight, two hours after genesis",
      "short": "First live finality lock: 77.4% of weight, 17 voters"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Proving: devnet v4 shards on the Apple M5 Max CPU, loaded machine",
      "short": "Proving: devnet v4 shards on the Apple M5 Max CPU, loaded machine"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "One-click Windows workers: what the Mac could measure",
      "short": "One-click Windows workers"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "First hourly program swap on the live devnet: compile-ahead, no pause, two cards",
      "short": "First live hourly swap: no pause on Mac, NVIDIA or AMD"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Proving v0 on the RTX 5090: first GPU proof of an Igneum block",
      "short": "First GPU proof of an Igneum block: 1.4 s on an RTX 5090"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Devnet v4 cut-over: generator v2, 2/3 floor, three nodes and a seed on a fresh chain",
      "short": "Devnet v4 live: generator v2, two-thirds floor, fresh chain"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Generator version 2 adopted: exact load count, fresh-source loads, program acceptance; every vector re-cut, three workers re-checked, 20,000-program census, devnet-v4 binaries rebuilt",
      "short": "Generator v2 adopted: every hash does 128 distinct reads"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Sim/economy: mining versus proving under stress, agent-based",
      "short": "Economy simulation: mining versus proving under stress"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Difficulty rule under attack: pool hopping, pulsed rental, timestamp stretching, short-lane oscillation, epoch games, polluted window, block flood",
      "short": "Difficulty rule attacked seven ways"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Difficulty rule: timestamp attack fixed , simulator regression, 3-node forger test",
      "short": "Timestamp attack on the difficulty rule fixed"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-04",
      "text": "Devnet-v4 integration: nine branches merged, 3-node test network on the merged node, Windows cross-build",
      "short": "Devnet v4: nine branches merged into one node"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Igneum-node devnet v2: sustained-mining finality rule v2 on a four-miner test network, and as a follower of the live devnet",
      "short": "Finality rule v2 live on a four-miner test network"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Execution layer devnet v3: revm over the selected chain, 3-node simnet, viem smoke test",
      "short": "EVM execution layer: identical state on three nodes"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Weak-program census: 400,000 program runs through the CPU reference, the redundant-load finding, and the rules for M5 and M6",
      "short": "Census of 400,000 programs: redundant loads found"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Proving v0: first SP1 proof of an Igneum block, Apple M5 Max CPU, loaded machine",
      "short": "First SP1 proof of an Igneum block, on a laptop CPU"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Windows node package: igneumd cross-compiled for x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, two-peer sync test",
      "short": "Windows node package: cross-compiled, two-peer sync"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "R3.26 / M15: PoW checked after the cheap checks, cache-build cap, attack before and after",
      "short": "Cache-build attack closed: 10.6 s of rebuilds to 14 ms"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Difficulty controller: devnet record, simulator, Igneum dual-lane rule, 3-node CPU test network",
      "short": "Igneum dual-lane difficulty rule built and simulated"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "First devnet blocks on the real lottery hash: CPU, then Metal GPU, three worker implementations",
      "short": "First devnet blocks on the real lottery hash"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Proto-opencl: OpenCL path built and proven without AMD silicon",
      "short": "OpenCL worker built and proven without AMD silicon"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "Igneum-node devnet v0: 3-node igneum-devnet at 1 BPS with the 80/20 coinbase and vote_key_hash",
      "short": "Devnet v0: three nodes at one block per second"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "AMD gfx1036 , AMD OpenCL 2.1 driver 3652.0",
      "short": "AMD integrated GPU runs the hash through OpenCL"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "RTX 5090 through NVIDIA OpenCL",
      "short": "RTX 5090 through NVIDIA OpenCL"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "RTX 5090 first run",
      "short": "RTX 5090 first run"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-03",
      "text": "RTX 5090, memory-hard dataset",
      "short": "RTX 5090 on the memory-hard dataset"
    }
  ]
}