Compatibility, measured
A GPU-secured network for Ethereum-compatible applications and verifiable computation. Compatibility is a product deliverable here, not a sentence: every row below is a test that ran against the devnet from the repository (tools/reference-apps/compat/run.mjs), with its evidence, and a row that could not run says so and why. Devnet, no value.
Last run: 2026-10-08 16:34 UTC on igneum-devnet-4 (chain id 4465). 20 passed, 0 failed, 0 untested. Sender 0x27C433aE…, contracts compiled with solc 0.8.28+commit.7893614a.Emscripten.clang.
Three boundaries hold for everything on this page: proven execution is not finality; EVM compatibility is not Ethereum security; ZK is not privacy. The four words included, executed, proven and finalised are defined on /receipt.
Representative contracts
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| an ERC-20 deploys (CREATE address as Ethereum computes it, code at the address) |
passed |
at 0xb2495fd85f54d73d7a13059a8e61956b67ad7aed, block 739, gas 436751 of 639078 estimated |
tx 0x8fd280cb…a5b9, address 0xb2495fd85f54d73d7a13059a8e61956b67ad7aed, block 739, gasUsed 436751, estimated 639078 |
| ERC-20 transfer: balances move, the Transfer log decodes, eth_call reads the new balance |
passed |
5 CTT to 0x00000000, log decoded, balance read |
tx 0xe787770a…25fb, block 742 |
| ERC-20 approve then transferFrom by a spender (the sender approves itself as spender): allowance consumed, logs decode |
passed |
allowance 3 then 1 after transferFrom of 2 |
approve 0xfc7a3a64…5d24, transferFrom 0x6c0a22dc…ef22 |
| a probe contract deploys (counter, block context reader, revert, out-of-gas loop, CREATE2) |
passed |
at 0x3efc60794d574627eb5cb4eca77d96735dac4c42 |
tx 0x551c2403…8e15, address 0x3efc60794d574627eb5cb4eca77d96735dac4c42, block 751 |
| a counter increments twice and reads 2 (state persists across chain blocks) |
passed |
count 2 after blocks 753 and 755 |
first 0xfaf85576…75a1, second 0x97ca4151…19c8 |
Wallet fee estimation
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| eth_gasPrice, eth_maxPriorityFeePerGas and eth_feeHistory answer in Ethereum's shapes |
passed |
gasPrice 196.130804856 gwei, priority 1 gwei, feeHistory 5 base fees |
gasPrice 0x2daa4e9478, maxPriorityFeePerGas 0x3b9aca00 |
| a plain transfer: eth_estimateGas against the receipt's gasUsed (the quote folds proving gas; both above Ethereum's 21,000) |
passed |
estimated 59650, used 21000 (35% of the estimate); Ethereum's figure is 21,000 |
tx 0x99c4dc1a…cad0, estimated 59650, gasUsed 21000, ethereum 21000 |
| a contract call: eth_estimateGas against gasUsed (a wallet that quotes from the node is covered) |
passed |
estimated 134366, used 26371 |
tx 0xeb8bafa3…bee4, estimated 134366, gasUsed 26371 |
| the documented difference: a transfer sent with a local 21,000 gas limit (Ethereum's intrinsic cost) instead of the node's quote |
passed |
the node accepted it and it succeeded with gasUsed 21000: a wallet with a hard-coded 21,000 works |
sent true, hash 0x538fdf72…b121, status success, gasUsed 21000 |
Indexing
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| eth_getLogs by address, by topic and by block range returns the receipts' logs with consistent logIndex and transactionIndex |
passed |
4 logs by address, 3 Transfer logs by topic, each found in its receipt |
byAddress 4, byTopic 3, fromBlock 739 |
| eth_getBlockByNumber with full transactions, eth_getBlockReceipts and eth_getTransactionByHash agree on indices and hashes |
passed |
block 742: 1 transactions, indices 0 to 0 continuous |
block 742, count 1 |
Failed transactions
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| a revert with a reason: eth_call returns the reason, the sent transaction has status 0, gas is charged, the nonce advances |
passed |
eth_call answers code 3 "execution reverted" with Error(string) data decoding to "compat says no"; the sent transaction: status 0, gasUsed 22292 of 200000, nonce 23 to 24 |
tx 0xfcdf8d24…6a1e, gasUsed 22292, block 762, call_error_code 3, call_error_message execution reverted, revert_data 0x08c379a00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e636f6d7061742073617973206e6f000000000000000000000000000000000000 |
| an out-of-gas call: status 0 and the whole limit charged |
passed |
status 0, gasUsed 150000 of the 150000 limit |
tx 0xb3986b45…a1f6, gasUsed 150000, limit 150000 |
Receipts
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| a receipt carries every Ethereum field, logsBloom recomputes from its logs, contractAddress is set on creation |
passed |
15 fields, bloom recomputed over 1 log(s), contractAddress 0xb2495fd8 |
tx 0x8fd280cb…a5b9 |
| the block's receipts rebuild its receipts trie root (Ethereum's layout, the node's encoding) equal to the header's receiptsRoot |
passed |
block 742, 1 receipts, root 0xa28061003c4c |
block 742, receipts 1, receiptsRoot 0xa2806100…ac55 |
Application assumptions
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| block.number, timestamp, chainid, basefee and blockhash(number-1) read from a contract match the block the call executed in |
passed |
block 768: number, timestamp, chainid 4465, basefee, blockhash(n-1) = parentHash, msg.sender and tx.origin all match |
tx 0x3c1d2dff…4fcd, block 768 |
| CREATE2 lands at the address Ethereum computes (keccak(0xff, deployer, salt, keccak(initcode))) |
passed |
child at 0xE63036B0fEC0d01321Ef4DA62C084d1Ec2eA47be |
tx 0x11cd9873…a80c, address 0xE63036B0fEC0d01321Ef4DA62C084d1Ec2eA47be |
Differences: block context
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| block.coinbase is the miner of the DAG block that first included the transaction, not one miner per chain block (measured: coinbase against the block's igneum.mergeset) |
passed |
coinbase 0xc119093F = the including block's miner 0xc119093f; the chain block merged 2 block(s) with 1 distinct miner(s), chain block miner 0xc119093f |
tx 0x3c1d2dff…4fcd, coinbase 0xc119093F38E3764Fdd86ea9635b7f616DEC6C3A6, includingMiner 0xc119093f38e3764fdd86ea9635b7f616dec6c3a6, chainBlockMiner 0xc119093f38e3764fdd86ea9635b7f616dec6c3a6 |
Differences: randomness
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| block.prevrandao: its value is derived from the chain's epoch seed (not Ethereum's beacon RANDAO); measured across consecutive blocks, and from a contract when a sender is funded |
passed |
blocks 767 to 770: 1 distinct epoch seed(s), 4 distinct mixHash value(s) in the headers; the source is the chain's epoch seed, which holds for an epoch, so prevrandao is not fresh per block and must not seed a lottery; a contract reading it twice in one call got the same value, and at block 768 it read 0x9cf17fa10c95… |
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Differences: two-dimensional fees
| Row |
Verdict |
What was measured |
Evidence |
| a receipt carries pgasUsed, provingBaseFeePerGas, burnedProvingFee and burnedExecutionBaseFee; effectiveGasPrice covers both dimensions |
passed |
gasUsed 51375, pgasUsed 1968, proving base fee 10000 gwei per pgas; paid 5188875000000000 wei, of which proving burn 19680000000000000, execution burn 5137500000000000, tip 41100000000000 (parts sum differs from gasUsed × effectiveGasPrice) |
tx 0xe787770a…25fb, gasUsed 51375, pgasUsed 1968, effectiveGasPrice 0x178411b200, parts_equal_paid false |
What the differences mean for an application
- Block context:
block.coinbase is the miner of the DAG block that first included the transaction, so one chain block can carry transactions with different coinbases; code that pays or trusts block.coinbase as "the block producer" sees several producers per block.
- Randomness:
block.prevrandao derives from the chain's epoch seed and holds for an epoch, so it is not fresh per block and must not seed a lottery or a commitment; use an application-level randomness source.
- Two-dimensional fees: every transaction pays execution gas and proving gas; the node folds the second into the gas it quotes, so a wallet that quotes from the node (eth_estimateGas, eth_gasPrice, eth_feeHistory) is covered and a wallet with Ethereum's constants (21,000 for a transfer) is not; the receipt carries the split under
igneum (pgasUsed, provingBaseFeePerGas, burnedProvingFee, burnedExecutionBaseFee, minerTip).
Source: tools/reference-apps/compat/run.mjs (the rows), tools/reference-apps/compat/results.json (the evidence), docs/build/compatibility.md (this page, rendered by render.mjs).