Subject: Montana — post-quantum blockchain reference paper

I've been working on a new pre-mainnet blockchain reference design whose
consensus signatures use post-quantum cryptography, with no transaction fees
and time as the scarce resource in place of money.

The paper is available at:
https://github.com/efir369999/Montana/blob/main/Whitepaper Montana.md

The main properties:
  Consensus signatures use ML-DSA-65. Application-layer encryption uses
  ML-KEM-768. Network transport is currently TLS 1.3 with classical ECDHE;
  the paper calls out this limitation and schedules hybrid PQ Noise_PQ.
  Consensus is a sequential delay function over SHA-256 producing a globally
  ordered chain of windows of approximately 60 seconds each; verification cost
  equals computation cost, so this is not a VDF in the Boneh/Pietrzak/
  Wesolowski efficient-verification sense.
  Anti-spam operates on time, not on fees: per-identity per-window rates,
  account chain-length thresholds, seniority gating.
  No mint, no premine, no transaction fee. The single emission is 13 base
  units of Ɉ to the operator who completes each window.
  Architecturally targets one billion active accounts as the design baseline;
  the paper quantifies state size (~2.06 TB for AccountRecord state) and marks
  snapshot fast-sync benchmarks as an M7 gate.

Full paper and reference implementation in Rust:
https://github.com/efir369999/Montana

Alejandro Montana