Concepts¶
The chain from first principles. Each page is short enough to read in one sitting; they build on each other in this order:
- Post-quantum cryptography — why ML-DSA / ML-KEM / SHA3, what they replace, what they don't.
- Blocks and consensus — block structure, PoW + QRNG attestation, fork resolution.
- QRNG and entropy — why mining requires verifiable entropy, what counts as a valid source, how the aggregator works.
- Addresses and wallets — what an address is, how it's derived from an ML-DSA public key.
- Gas, fees, and economics — Bohms, the gas table, the emission schedule.
- Mining — the full mining loop, sync gates, block templating, difficulty adjustment.
- Networking — peer discovery, the P2P wire protocol, IBD, transaction propagation.