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White papers

The whole project, written down twice

The same project, at two levels of detail. Both are written from one source, so the specification and the plain-English version cannot drift apart, and every number in both comes from the same emission model rather than from a spreadsheet somebody typed.

Read either one here, or take the PDF. Neither is an offer to sell anything, and each says so on its second page.

Atheron in Plain English

18 pages · v1.0

The same project without the specification. What we are building, how mining works at all, why the graphics cards do two jobs, where the coin comes from, and what could go wrong.

Anyone who owns a bit of crypto and would rather not read a spec

Technical Whitepaper

44 pages · v1.0

The full specification: consensus, both mining lanes, the dual virtual machines, the Compute Mesh, the Signal Ledger, tokenomics in units, the threat model and every parameter that is still open.

Engineers, auditors, and anybody who wants the parameters