A peer-to-peer quantum-resistant electronic coin system. Full technical specification of the PiNeroBase protocol, PNR coin economics, and post-quantum cryptographic stack.
The PiNeroBase whitepaper covers the full protocol specification across 9 sections.
The quantum threat to existing blockchain infrastructure. Why ECDSA is no longer sufficient and what must replace it.
ML-DSA-65 (Dilithium3, NIST FIPS 204) for digital signatures. BLAKE3 for hashing and Merkle trees. Algorithm choice rationale, parameter sets, key/signature sizes, and the security argument that justifies each.
Account-based state model. Transaction structure, ML-DSA signing, fee calculation, and mempool management.
Block header fields, BLAKE3 Merkle tree construction, block size limits, and chain validation rules.
Current devnet runs a single-validator producer with HTTP block gossip. Multi-node BFT consensus, validator entry/exit, threshold ML-DSA aggregation, and slashing rules ship with v1.0 — fully specified and on the public roadmap.
Today: HTTP-based block gossip with a peer registry and bootstrap sync. v1.0 will harden this with libp2p and TLS-pinned transport — designed but not yet in main.
ML-DSA keypair generation, PQ-BIP32 HD wallet derivation, address scheme (BLAKE3 hash of public key), and key storage security.
55,500,000 PNB cap. Initial reward 50 PNB per block. Halving every 210,000 blocks. No premine. Cap enforcement at consensus arrives with v1.0.
Development phases: cryptographic core, block validation, consensus, P2P networking, wallet SDK, and mainnet launch timeline.