Comparison · verifiable, not vibes

TSN next to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero.

Three chains people already trust, compared on properties you can check yourself — signature scheme, consensus, default privacy, premine. No scores, no "winner" column.

01 Side by side

Same categories, checkable answers.

Every cell below is a documented, public property of the respective protocol — its own source code, client documentation or whitepaper is the source.

Property	TSN	Bitcoin	Ethereum	Monero
Language	Rust	C++	Go, Rust multi-client	C++
Consensus	PoW + MIK	PoW SHA-256	PoS Beacon chain	PoW RandomX
Signature scheme	ML-DSA-65 lattice, FIPS 204	ECDSA secp256k1	ECDSA secp256k1	EdDSA Ed25519
Post-quantum signatures	Yes	No	No	No
Hash function	Poseidon2 ZK-friendly	SHA-256	Keccak	Keccak
ZK proofs	Native Plonky2 proofs	None	L2 only not on L1	Partial Bulletproofs+, range proofs only
Privacy by default	Yes shielded by default	No public ledger	No public ledger	Yes RingCT, mandatory
Smart contracts	zkVM	Script not general-purpose	EVM	None
Quantum-safe stack	Full stack	No	No	No
Block time	~10s	~10 min	~12s	~2 min
Premine	0	0	~72M ETH 2014 sale	0

"Premine" counts coins issued outside normal block rewards. Ethereum's genesis allocation from its 2014 sale is public record; Bitcoin and Monero began emitting through mining from block one.

02 Signatures

One column survives a quantum computer.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero all sign with elliptic-curve schemes — mathematics a sufficiently large quantum computer is expected to break via Shor's algorithm. TSN signs with a lattice-based scheme instead, from the genesis block.

ECDSA · secp256k1 elliptic curve — Bitcoin, Ethereum breaks under Shor

EdDSA · Ed25519 elliptic curve — Monero breaks under Shor

ML-DSA-65 module lattice — TSN, from genesis post-quantum · FIPS 204

Public key size1,952 bytes

Signature size3,309 bytes

NIST security category3

Reference implementationthe fips204 crate

03 Why it matters

Three properties, checkable today.

Not "better than everyone" — just what the code actually does, with a way to verify each claim yourself.

01 Signatures, from genesisML-DSA-65 signs every TSN transaction since block zero — not a planned migration bolted on for later. whitepaper ↗ 02 Shielded by defaultEvery transfer carries a Plonky2 proof. There is no public-by-default mode to opt out of. whitepaper ↗ 03 No pre-mine, no private saleEvery TSN in circulation was mined the same way. See the full supply schedule. tokenomics ↗

Post-quantum L1 · shielded by default · fair launch

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