Nothing here is speculative. All four are in the source, on the chain, and verifiable today.
Every signature is ML-DSA-65 (Dilithium-3, NIST FIPS 204). A shelved quantum computer coming online next year doesn't invalidate a single UTXO. No secp256k1, no migration story, no hybrid bridge.
VeldHash uses a 1 GB dataset, 8 FP registers, and an epoch-rotated seed. ASIC-resistant in the RandomX tradition. Your CPU earns. GPU farms don't dominate. The playing field stays reachable.
Every block: 50% to the miner, 20% co-mining, 20% vault (stakers), 10% endorsement (validators). Combined multipliers cap at 3.00×. No whale cut, no pre-mine, no admin slice.
No cross-chain trust surface. No smart-contract VM to DoS. No pause switch, no upgrade multisig, no privileged RPC. Governance is the only protocol lever — and it requires an on-chain validator quorum.
Mining, staking, validating, co-mining, governance, and just holding — they all compound.
Download VeldClient, double-click Start Mining. Your CPU hashes VeldHash (1 GB memory-hard) to find blocks. Winning miner receives 50% of the block reward directly to their address.
Lock any amount from 10 to 10 000 VELD for 7 / 14 / 30 / 90 days. Longer lockups earn higher multipliers (1.00× → 1.50×). Every 144 blocks the vault distributes to stakers proportionally.
Stake the full 10 000 VELD max and register your ML-DSA-65 pubkey as a validator. Your daemon signs each new block. Every 144 blocks the endorsement pool pays validators by endorsement count.
Not every hash wins — most are "near-misses" within 4× of the target. Near-misses count toward a shared pool. Every 100 blocks it pays out, proportional to your contribution. No setup needed — comes free with mining.
Registered validators can propose promotional reward boosts (up to 2.0× for up to 1440 blocks, capped at 12% of vault per activation). 51% validator-quorum vote. No other on-chain parameters are mutable.
Don't trust, verify. The same client that mines runs a full P2P node: it independently validates every block, every signature, every coinbase split. Nothing about the chain's state depends on a central server you have to trust.
Every VELD in existence is minted as a block reward to a participant. No pre-mine, no treasury, no founder allocation.
Longer commitments earn more. The lockup multiplier stacks with your mining tier.
Tiers are activity-based, not cumulative. A "day" = 1,440 blocks (~24 h). A day counts as "active" if you mined at least one block in it. Your tier is recomputed every block from the last N days. Mine consistently → tier climbs. Stop mining → tier drops.
We are in the unattended soak phase right now. The chain runs for 120 days, gets audited against its own history, and goes live.
Download the client, pick a wallet, leave it running. No sign-up, no account, no KYC — your address is your identity.
Grab VeldClient-Windows-x64.zip from below. Extract anywhere on your PC. No install, no admin rights needed. The whole package is 4.2 MB.
First run shows a four-option prompt: resume, import keyfile, paste a private key, or create a new wallet. Pick one — that becomes your miner's reward address.
The node syncs with peers, then mining starts automatically. CPU spends about 100% of one core on VeldHash. Close the window to stop. Everything you earn lands at your address directly.
On the very first start-up, the binary prints a four-option menu right in the console:
Your pick becomes the miner's reward address. It's encrypted to veld-data\miner.key with your passphrase. Back that file up before deleting anything.
Extra requirements if you want to endorse blocks for a share of the endorsement pool:
The desktop client runs a full P2P node, mines blocks, and endorses as a validator — all in a single process.
4.22 MB zip · self-contained · Windows 10 / 11 · runs without install. Extract and double-click Start Mining.bat.
C:\Veld, a thumb drive, wherever.Start Mining.bat in the extracted folder.Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\VeldClient-Windows-x64.zip — match the SHA256 above.