BLOCK PROOF
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The first chain built so no chip can ever take your place. A mining program that rewrites itself every hour, so no chip can be built for it. The same card proves every block and gets paid for it. No premine, no stake, no foundation, no merge to anything else, ever.
One proof checked here, in milliseconds. No node, no trust, no middleman. Live at testnet.
Blocks arrive every second. Miners prove them in shards. A checkpoint locks every 30 seconds. All of it will be on this page, live.
A new random program every hour. A GPU compiles it in seconds. A chip designed for last hour's program is already obsolete.
The same cards that secure Igneum sell proofs to rollups and bridges. Jobs through Igneum's own market are paid in IGN and 10% of each fee is burned.
RandomX has kept chips off Monero since 2019 by making the mining program random. Igneum takes the same principle to graphics cards and adds the parts RandomX never had.
| Property | RandomX, Monero | Igneum |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware it is built for | CPUs. GPUs run it badly on purpose | GPUs. Any card, any vendor. Bit-exact on Apple and NVIDIA, measured |
| Random program | Per hash, interpreted in a virtual machine | Per hour, compiled to native GPU code, with a per-hash random data path. ProgPoW randomised the maths inside a fixed shape; Igneum regenerates the whole program |
| Dataset | About 2 GB, the same size since 2019, approximate | 2 GB at genesis, growing every year past any chip's memory |
| Light verification | 256 MB cache on a CPU, milliseconds | 256 MB cache on a CPU, one warp under 10 ms, the measured gate |
| Changes over time | None. A fixed design, unchanged for seven years | Automatic era draws and a reserve of instruction families that unlock by height. Nobody touches it |
| Seed grinding | Not applicable, the program comes from the hash input | Closed by a verifiable delay between seed and program |
| Useful work | None. Hashing only | The same card proves every block and sells proofs to other chains |
| Track record | No chip in seven years | Zero years. Every number above is measured and logged with the commands that produced it, and the repository opens with the public benchmark in January 2027 |
RandomX proved that a random program beats a chip when the only hardware that runs it well is the hardware everyone already owns. Igneum does the same for the card in your PC, and makes the program keep moving without a human. Run the benchmark on your own card from the repository and post the number.
Any card with 4 GB today, 8 GB for the next decade. A random program every hour, so there is nothing for a chip to be built for. 80% of every block to the miner who finds it, from block one.
Get the minerThe same card proves shards of every block and sells proofs to other chains. A proof is right or it is not, so nobody has to trust a miner, ever.
How proving paysEthereum bytecode, wallets and tools, unchanged. One-second inclusion, finality in about two minutes, a prover network any contract can call, and 15% of the priority fees your code earns paid back to you every block.
Deploy on IgneumOne client, one balance. The miner software switches the card between hashing and proving by itself.
80% of emission to the miner who wins the block. Half of all IGN is mined in the first two years.
20% of emission plus a share of every block's gas, paid to the cards that prove shards and aggregate them.
Rollups and bridges pay for proofs in their own money. Small market today, growing with every chain that moves to proofs. Upside, not a promise.
Thirteen months, four public gates. Every gate is a measurement, published whether it passes or fails. Miss it and the phase repeats or Igneum stops.
Hard cap of 4 billion IGN. Emission halves every two years for ever. Not one coin to a founder, a fund or a stake. Development is paid from fees by the people who use the chain, and spent only when miners signal yes.
The litepaper states the limits before anyone else does. Proof lag, chip economics, the market size, and the one rule external review will try hardest to break.