Everything we would rather you heard from us

A time-locked founder multisig can push patches to exactly two components at genesis: the tensor-memory-hard mining lane and the cross-VM router. It cannot reach balances, supply, emission, the exchange, the Compute Mesh contracts, or either registry. The scope is enforced in the governance contract. Every change is visible on-chain before it takes effect. It sunsets at defined thresholds into ordinary community governance. The mechanism in full.

It is a pre-sale of subscription access to a software product, at a discount, before the product exists. Backers receive a named subscription tier for a defined period. Nothing about the reward scales with the price of ATON, the performance of the network, or company profits. There is no equity, no profit share, no governance right, and no token.

The Founders Registry entry is non-transferable, has no stated or implied resale value, and is cosmetic. We do not describe it as a collectible, because describing it that way is how a badge quietly turns into something else.

The wait is long. The trading engine is not expected in beta until roughly month nine of the plan. That is the central fact of the campaign rather than a footnote to it.

There has never been a public sale of ATON and there will not be one. Every publicly held coin comes from mining or from secondary market trading. Anyone offering to sell you ATON before mainnet is not us.

The genesis block-rate target of four to ten blocks per second is a target. The anticone constraint value is a starting point for exploration. Both are testnet outputs and neither has been measured. If the data says the target is not safely reachable, the honest options are to delay mainnet or lower the target.

Every date on this site is an estimate against a plan, and plans in this category slip. The build tracker is computed from the repositories rather than maintained by hand, so it shows whether ours is slipping without needing us to say so.

A trading bot does not predict markets. It automates a strategy consistently, which is useful and is not the same thing. Past results do not indicate future ones. Nothing on this site is investment advice, a solicitation, or a recommendation, and the trading engine is automation rather than portfolio management.

Atheron is a British Columbia corporation. Nothing on this site should be read as a certification that ATON is compliant with securities law in any jurisdiction, or as legal advice of any kind. The design choices here reduce certain regulatory exposures by construction. That is not the same as clearance and we are not claiming it is.