Post-quantum L1 · shielded by default · fair launch
Private by default. Post-quantum by design.
TSN is a privacy blockchain written from scratch in Rust — every transaction shielded by default, every signature post-quantum, every coin mined in the open. No premine. No insiders. No faces.
We are you.
We are no one.
We are everyone.
the code speaks.
TSN ships with no founder photos, no bios, no faces to trust — the team is anonymous by design. What remains is 114,000 lines of Rust that anyone can read, run and verify. Authority comes from proofs, not people.
01 Lifecycle
Four states. No shortcuts.
Every TSN block passes through the same four states, in the same order, every time. There is no fast path for anyone — not for large miners, not for the team, not for the block that carries your transaction.
Assemble
Pending transactions are gathered into a candidate block.
Verify
Every ML-DSA-65 signature and every STARK proof is checked. Invalid transactions never get in.
Seal
Proof-of-work seals the block. Finality is paid for in computation, not reputation.
Commit
The sealed block is hash-linked to its predecessor and replicated across the mesh.
The highlight above follows the animation on this page, not the live chain. For the live chain, open the explorer.
02 Network
The chain, live.
These figures are read from a TSN node at the moment you load this page — nothing is pre-baked. If no node answers from where you're standing, each field says so instead of showing a zero it doesn't mean.
Read from /chain/info, /peers and /node/info on this deployment. For every block and every peer, open the explorer.
03 Topology
Addressed by identity, not by IP.
Each node is identified by a cryptographic Node ID — the Poseidon2 hash of its ML-DSA public key. No IP address is exposed.
v3.0.0-rc.18 — mainnet planned September 2026.
For the live mesh as this node sees it, open the node map.
04 Consensus
Mined by everyone. Owned by no one.
Consensus on TSN is MIK — Mining meets Identity & Knowledge. Proof-of-work keeps the chain open to ordinary hardware, identity-bound scoring keeps Sybil armies out, and there is no ASIC to centralize it.
Zero premine. No private sale. Every TSN in existence is mined in public, with rewards flowing to miners, service nodes and the treasury. Nobody got in before you — there was no door.
05 Cryptography
Built for the day ECDSA dies.
Bitcoin and Ethereum rest on elliptic-curve signatures — mathematics a sufficiently large quantum computer is expected to break. "Harvest now, decrypt later" is already collecting today's traffic for tomorrow's machines.
TSN signs everything with ML-DSA-65, the lattice-based standard of NIST FIPS 204 — from the genesis block. Not a migration plan. The foundation.
06 Shielded transfer
How a shielded transaction works.
Amounts, senders and recipients stay hidden at every step — the chain only ever sees commitments, nullifiers and proofs.
Create note
Shielded note with value, recipient key, and randomness. Nothing revealed.
Generate proof
Plonky2 proof proves validity without revealing any private data.
Commit & nullify
Poseidon2 commitment to tree. Nullifier prevents double-spending.
Sign & broadcast
ML-DSA-65 quantum-safe signature. Broadcasted to P2P network.
07 Architecture
Eight decisions, one foundation.
TSN isn't a stack of trends bolted together. Every layer below was chosen because it still stands the day ECDSA doesn't.
ML-DSA-65 signatures
Every transaction and every block header is signed with ML-DSA-65, the module-lattice scheme standardized in NIST FIPS 204 — from the genesis block, not a migration plan.
Plonky2 proofs
Zero-knowledge proofs show a transaction is valid without revealing who sent what to whom. No trusted setup, no elliptic curves — post-quantum by construction.
MIK consensus
Mining meets Identity & Knowledge: Poseidon2 proof-of-work keeps mining open to ordinary hardware, identity-bound scoring keeps Sybil armies out, and there's no ASIC path to centralize either half.
Shielded by default
Amounts, senders and recipients are hidden behind zero-knowledge proofs. Only commitments and nullifiers ever touch the chain — privacy isn't a setting, it's the architecture.
114,000 lines of Rust
Consensus engine, P2P protocol, zkVM, wallet and block format — all memory-safe Rust, all readable. 312 source files, 490+ tests passing.
Built from scratch
No Substrate, no Cosmos SDK, no forked codebase carrying someone else's bugs. The cryptographic primitives are battle-tested; everything above them was designed for TSN.
Distributed snapshots
Every 500 blocks, seed nodes publish a signed snapshot of chain state — an Ed25519 signature, a SHA-256 of the tarball, the chain ID bound in. A new node joins from genesis in seconds, fully verified.
Trusted-quorum checkpoint
Every 100 blocks, roughly 20 minutes at the measured block interval, a supermajority of the trusted voter set must agree on the chain tip. Past that point, no reorg is ever accepted again — a 51% attacker gets one window, never the whole history.
08 Resilience
Bulletproof synchronization and fork protection.
TSN implements a multi-layered defense system that goes beyond what most L1 blockchains offer.
not max(height)
Verified snapshot system
Decentralized state snapshots with cryptographic verification. Instant chain restoration without trusting any single node.
Export
Seed produces snapshot & signs manifest with Ed25519.
Confirm
2+ independent seeds verify block hash & state root, sign individually.
Verify
Importing node checks signature, confirmations, SHA256 & state root.
Trust model: GitHub is a distribution mirror. Trust comes from Ed25519 signatures, multi-seed confirmations, and state root recalculation after import.
Anti-fork protections
| MAX_REORG_DEPTH = 100 | No reorganization deeper than 100 blocks, regardless of cumulative work |
| Checkpoint Finality | Every 100 blocks — deterministic finality, no reorg beyond checkpoint |
| Anti-Fork Sync Gate | Miners must be within 2 blocks of network tip to submit new blocks |
| Genesis Verification | All nodes verify genesis block hash at startup — prevents silent forks |
| Fork ID Verification | Peers verify fork identity on handshake — prevents silent chain splits and eclipse attacks |
| Anchor Block Filter | Rejects blocks that do not reference a recent valid ancestor — prevents orphan spam |
Most L1 blockchains rely on simple longest-chain rules. TSN combines 7 layers of protection for enterprise-grade chain stability.
09 Node roles
Four roles. One --role flag.
A TSN node specializes at startup — nothing to install twice, nothing to fork. Colors match the node map on the explorer.
Reward split — 90% miners · 5% service nodes · 5% dev treasury — set once, at genesis. See Tokenomics.
10 Tokenomics
90 / 5 / 5, fixed at genesis.
Every TSN in existence is mined in public. Each block reward splits three ways — the same rule since day one: no premine, no private sale, nothing bought.
11 Team
The specialists behind TSN.
A multidisciplinary team of developers, each an expert in their field — pseudonymous by design. No photos, no bios: we are you, we are no one, we are everyone. The code speaks for itself.
12 Roadmap
From code to mainnet.
A straight line: build, test privately, test publicly, then launch. No incentivized phase in between — tokens carry no monetary value before mainnet.
Phase 1 — Foundations
Core blockchain, cryptography and networking: blocks, transactions, ML-DSA-65, Plonky2 proofs, Poseidon2, P2P, wallet, RPC, explorer, multi-role nodes and the zkVM foundations.
Phase 2 — Private testnet
A small node set running live: working transactions, dual mining, an interactive wallet, a verified snapshot system. Tokens mined here have no monetary value.
Phase 3 — Public testnet
Opened to anyone. Bug bounty, security audit, stress testing — the last checkpoint before mainnet, still with no monetary reward attached.
Phase 4 — Mainnet launch
Genesis block. Fair launch, zero premine, shielded by default, zkVM contracts live.
Mainnet targeted for September 2026, subject to readiness — dates move, the order of phases doesn't.
13 Ecosystem
Three apps, one network.
Whispr runs peer-to-peer on TSN identities. NetherSwap and ZST run on Cortex nodes — a sandboxed WASM runtime, pseudonymous and confidential by design.
Whispr is live at whispr.tsnchain.com — features, comparison and roadmap on the Whispr page.
14 Demo
TSN commands in action.
A preview of the TSN CLI — wallet generation, mining and network interactions.
15 Latest
16 Verify
Don't trust this page. Check it.
No testimonials, no partner logos, no "audited by" badges — those are easy to print and hard to check. TSN offers primary sources instead. All three are public.
Mainnet · September 2026 · subject to readiness
Become no one.
Run a node. Mine a block. Leave nothing behind but proofs.