Neptune Cash
sea of freedom
Neptune Cash is a Layer-1 peer-to-peer anonymous cash protocol featuring privacy, scalability, and post-quantum security.
zk-STARKs. Neptune Cash is, to our knowledge, the first blockchain protocol to integrate zk-STARKs" on Layer-1 (where they belong). Users prove transactions on the client side. Miners aggregate transactions. Every block contains only one, big transaction; and one proof.
Mutator Sets. It is definitely the first blockchain protocol to feature mutator sets, a novel solution for achieving privacy without sacrificing succinctness.
Post-Quantum. All cryptography involved is post-quantum, meaning that it can be deployed on today's machines, and promises to withstand attacks on future quantum computers.
Proof-of-Work. The consumption of physical resources is required to produce blocks, thus rooting the security of the consensus mechanism in objective reality.
Smart Contracts. The prover supports arbitrary logic; together with privacy, this support makes Neptune a private smart contract platform in addition to a competitor for the world's best possible money.
Tokenomics. The total number of Neptune Coins that will ever exist is asymptotically limited to 42.000.000, and the pre-mine is less than 1.98% of that. There are halvings every three years. Half of every block reward is time-locked for 3 years.
Blog
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Mainnet Launch
by Neptune Cash Developers, February 13, 2025 -
Betanet Version 2
by Neptune Cash Developers, January 31, 2025 -
Launch Scope and Hard Forks
by Alan Szepieniec, October 14, 2024 -
Mechanics of Mining Rewards
by Alan Szepieniec, July 21, 2024 -
Habemus Verifier
by Thorkil Værge, March 30, 2024 -
Why Not Build on Bitcoin?
by Alan Szepieniec, December 16, 2023 -
How Neptune Fixes Ethereum's Frontrunning Problem
by Alan Szepieniec, December 14, 2023 -
On the Valuation of Cryptocurrencies
by Alan Szepieniec, September 26, 2023 -
Mechanics of Investing
by Alan Szepieniec, September 25, 2023 -
Mutator Sets
by Alan Szepieniec, August 10, 2023 -
How to Contribute
by Thorkil Værge, August 08, 2023 -
Only Privacy Coins are Fungible
by Thorkil Værge, July 25, 2023 -
The Immaculate Conception of Bitcoin and What it Means for Competitors
by Thorkil Værge, July 12, 2023 -
Announcing Alphanet
by Alan Szepieniec, July 10, 2023 -
Post-Quantum Security at Genesis
by Alan Szepieniec, February 16, 2023 -
The Problem of Scalable Privacy
by Alan Szepieniec, August 11, 2022 -
Announcing Triton VM
by Jan Ferdinand Sauer, August 03, 2022 -
Neptune and Post-Quantum Security
by Alan Szepieniec, July 01, 2022 -
Neptune Tokenomics
by Alan Szepieniec, June 26, 2022 -
Paper Wallets
by Alan Szepieniec, June 02, 2022 -
UTXO Types and the Data Availability Problem
by Alan Szepieniec, May 27, 2022 -
Proof-of-Stake is not Objective
by Alan Szepieniec, May 20, 2022 -
In Defense of Proof of Work
by Thorkil Værge, May 13, 2022 -
Storage Requirements and Node Types in the Neptune Protocol
by Alan Szepieniec, March 08, 2022 -
A brief introduction
by Alan Szepieniec, Thorkil Værge, January 21, 2022
Learn
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Authentication Structure Authentication
by Alan Szepieniec, October 26, 2024 -
Cryptographic Arguments for Linking Tables in Triton VM
by Jan Ferdinand Sauer, February 06, 2023 -
Speeding up STARK Provers with Multicircuits
by Thorkil Værge, November 25, 2022 -
Brainfuck STARK Tutorial
by Thorkil Værge, Ferdinand Sauer, and Alan Szepieniec, August 03, 2022 -
Minimizing Storage Using Merkle Mountain Ranges
by Thorkil Værge, April 11, 2022 -
Anatomy of a STARK
by Alan Szepieniec, October 28, 2021 -
Neptune White Paper
by Alan Szepieniec and Thorkil Værge April 23, 2021