RustChain

What is RustChain?

RustChain is a blockchain that rewards real hardware participation. Unlike Proof-of-Work (energy waste) or Proof-of-Stake (rich get richer), RustChain uses Proof of Antiquity (PoA) - miners prove they're running on real physical hardware via cryptographic fingerprinting, and older hardware earns higher multipliers.

The native token is RTC (RustChain Token). 1.5 RTC is distributed per epoch to active miners, weighted by hardware antiquity.

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RIP-200 Consensus

RIP-200: Round Robin 1-CPU-1-Vote is the consensus protocol.

How It Works

1. Miners run attestation software on real hardware
2. Hardware fingerprinting proves the machine is physical (not a VM)
3. Each miner gets exactly 1 vote per epoch
4. Rewards are distributed proportionally, with antiquity bonuses

Antiquity Multipliers

Older hardware earns more because it's harder to fake and represents genuine commitment:

PowerPC G4       2.5x    (2003-era Apple hardware)
PowerPC G5       2.0x    (2004-era Apple hardware)
PowerPC G3       1.8x    (1999-era Apple hardware)
Pentium 4        1.5x    (2000-era Intel)
Retro x86        1.4x    (pre-2010 x86)
Apple Silicon    1.2x    (M1/M2/M3)
Modern x86_64    1.0x    (current hardware)
    

Multipliers decay slowly over chain lifetime (~6.67 years to halve) to prevent permanent advantage.

Hardware Fingerprinting (RIP-PoA)

Every miner must pass 7 hardware checks to earn rewards:

1. Clock-Skew & Oscillator Drift

Measures microscopic timing imperfections in the CPU oscillator. Real silicon has unique drift patterns that VMs cannot replicate.

2. Cache Timing Fingerprint

Sweeps across cache sizes measuring L1/L2/L3 latency harmonics. Produces a unique "tone profile" per CPU. Caches age unevenly, creating irreproducible echo patterns.

3. SIMD Unit Identity

Tests AltiVec (PPC), SSE/AVX (x86), or NEON (ARM) instruction latencies. Software emulation flattens timing differences, making fakes detectable.

4. Thermal Drift Entropy

Collects entropy across thermal states: cold boot, warm load, thermal saturation, relaxation. Heat curves are physically unique.

5. Instruction Path Jitter

Captures cycle-level jitter across integer, FPU, branch, and load/store pipelines. No VM replicates real jitter at nanosecond resolution.

6. Device-Age Oracle Bounty: 30 RTC

Cross-references CPU model, release year, firmware age with entropy profiles. Catches "new CPU pretending to be old."

7. Anti-Emulation Checks

Detects hypervisor scheduling, time dilation, flattened jitter distributions, uniform thermal response, and perfect cache curves (impossible on real hardware). VMs earn 1 billionth of real hardware rewards.

Network Status

Ergo Anchoring

RustChain anchors miner attestation data to the Ergo blockchain for external verifiability. Each anchor contains:

R4: Blake2b256 commitment hash (32 bytes)
R5: Miner count
R6: Miner IDs (pipe-separated)
R7: Device architectures
R8: RustChain slot height
R9: Timestamp
    

This creates an immutable record that anyone can verify independently.

Start Mining

# Check node health
curl -sk https://50.28.86.131/health

# Download miner
# (coming soon: one-command installer)

# Check your balance
curl -sk "https://50.28.86.131/wallet/balance?miner_id=YOUR_WALLET"
    

Or claim a bounty to earn RTC by building.