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Subject: Montana — post-quantum blockchain reference paper
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I've been working on a new pre-mainnet blockchain reference design whose
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consensus signatures use post-quantum cryptography, with no transaction fees
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and time as the scarce resource in place of money.
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The paper is available at:
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https://github.com/efir369999/Montana/blob/main/Whitepaper Montana.md
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The main properties:
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Consensus signatures use ML-DSA-65. Application-layer encryption uses
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ML-KEM-768. Network transport is currently TLS 1.3 with classical ECDHE;
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the paper calls out this limitation and schedules hybrid PQ Noise_PQ.
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Consensus is a sequential delay function over SHA-256 producing a globally
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ordered chain of windows of approximately 60 seconds each; verification cost
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equals computation cost, so this is not a VDF in the Boneh/Pietrzak/
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Wesolowski efficient-verification sense.
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Anti-spam operates on time, not on fees: per-identity per-window rates,
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account chain-length thresholds, seniority gating.
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No mint, no premine, no transaction fee. The single emission is 13 base
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units of Ɉ to the operator who completes each window.
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Architecturally targets one billion active accounts as the design baseline;
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the paper quantifies state size (~2.06 TB for AccountRecord state) and marks
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snapshot fast-sync benchmarks as an M7 gate.
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Full paper and reference implementation in Rust:
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https://github.com/efir369999/Montana
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Alejandro Montana
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