Post-Quantum Stack
// SEGMENT: NIXEON// LATTICE-NATIVE FROM GENESIS
Lattice-native primitives, post-quantum from genesis.
ML-DSA-44 spend authorization, a lattice state-commitment tree on the Frog ring, SHA3-256 hashing, 4-validator BFT. LatticeFold-style block folding is built and benchmarked but not yet on the consensus path. The cryptography is published research; the integration is ours.
BFT
4
Permissioned validators, f=1
SIGS
every
Tx signature re-verified per block
PQ
0
Pre-quantum signatures
PROOF
~2.3 MB
Folded proof, benchmarked not wired
Six PQ layers. Four integrated, one built, one planned.
NIST-standardized signatures, a lattice state commitment, SHA3-256 hashing. The cryptography is published research; the integration is ours.
| Layer | Primitive | Hard problem | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spend authorization | ML-DSA-44 (FIPS 204) | Module-LWE / Module-SIS | ✓ integrated |
| Consensus + identity | ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) | Module-LWE / Module-SIS | ✓ integrated |
| State commitment | Lattice gadget tree / Frog ring | structural (no hardness claim) | ✓ integrated |
| Block proof | LatticeFold-style folding | Module-SIS | ● built, not wired |
| Hashing | SHA3-256 / SHAKE-256 | SHA-3 preimage | ✓ integrated |
| Attestation aggregation | Chipmunk-PoA | Module-SIS | ○ planned |
Honest disclosures
- 01Nixeon is a testnet. Consensus is 4-validator permissioned BFT, running today. Nothing in the stack has been externally audited, and testnet coins have no value.
- 02HAWK was withdrawn from NIST's additional-signatures process in July 2026 after a key-recovery attack. Nixeon has since migrated off it completely: ML-DSA-44 authorizes user transactions and ML-DSA-65 signs consensus votes and peer identity, using the fips204 crate rather than a hand-port. ML-DSA is CNSA 2.0's signature, so that surface is already strict. Neither that crate nor this stack has been formally audited. Transactions carry the signer's ML-DSA-44 public key on chain; zero-knowledge spend authorization is designed, not shipped.
- 03Payments-only by design today. No untrusted smart-contract VM. Programmability comes after the cryptographic stack reaches audit-grade.
- 04Auditable confidentiality (viewing keys) is planned, not shipped. Anonymous-by-default privacy is intentionally out of scope; that lane is well served by Aleo, Aztec, and Namada.
Read the deep Nixeon technical reference
LatticeFold-style folding, the lattice state-commitment tree, soundness analysis, and the dependency-ordered roadmap live on the Nixeon docs site.