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Proxima's journey to decentralization continues: v1.0.0-take1 is out and the take 1 network is running.
After take 0, it is more secure, with fewer bugs and healthier mining.
Come mine and take part in the cooperative consensus, a true innovation in L1 crypto!
lunfardo314.github.io
Experimental, MIT, as is. Nothing sold, nothing promised.
Proxima has started its journey to decentralization. The pre-launch network is open, and anyone can join.
It took years to get here. Proxima is a new L1 with a radical innovation at its core: cooperative consensus, reached on a DAG of transactions by token holders cooperating rather than competing. No blocks, no block proposers, no committee, no proof of work behind the consensus. Just token holders. It is Nakamoto-style decentralization on a proof-of-stake footing.
It is fair-launched. Nearly all of the supply is mined by whoever wants to, with proof of work that distributes tokens and does nothing else. There is nothing to buy and nothing for sale.
And the ledger itself is what we always wanted a UTXO ledger to be: fully programmable covenants and native tokens, from day one.
We are doing it in takes. The network starts centralized, in a pre-launch phase that can be stopped and reset at any time, and it will take a few takes to get it right. Each take goes a bit further than the last, until one of them
decentralizes and just keeps going on its own. This is take 0.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, come mine, run a node, break it, and share with the
community what you found.
Proxima retweeted
1-Project Overview
Proxima @Proxima_DLT is an experimental distributed ledger built around cooperative consensus. Token holders extend the transaction history with the greatest ledger coverage: the amount of tokens accounted for in that history. Its directed acyclic graph (DAG) links transactions through unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs), the spendable records created by earlier transactions. Participants converge by building on histories that incorporate more of the ledger.
The central idea is to make consolidating compatible transactions useful to participants seeking agreement. Sequencers, active token holders that continuously issue transactions, bring other transaction histories into their own. This gives separate activity a route toward a shared ledger without a validator committee or a block-production race. Consensus remains probabilistic, so confirmation does not mean guaranteed instant finality. Proof of work serves a separate, temporary role in distributing tokens.
Proxima is currently in an experimental pre-launch phase, testing its cooperative consensus model as it works toward a decentralized network of token holders.
2-Utility
▪ Transfers and settlement: UTXO transactions record changes in ownership, while sequencers consolidate compatible histories. The cooperative approach gives transactions issued along different paths a way to become part of the same history. This is the core mechanism behind Proxima’s transfer and settlement design in the experimental network.
▪ Sequencing and delegation: Holders can run sequencers themselves or delegate tokens to support sequencing activity. The delegation design retains the holder’s control over the tokens, providing a way to participate without personally operating a sequencer. The take1 implementation includes delegation top-ups, allowing additional tokens to be added to an existing delegation.
▪ Programmable ownership: EasyFL expresses bounded functional validation: rules governing when and how an output can be spent, with limits on their evaluation. Native assets are ledger-issued tokens distinct from PROX; token foundries support their issuance, and NFTs represent individually identifiable assets. These ledger features provide building blocks for applications with different ownership and transfer rules
3-Tokenomics
$PROX is the native token, and one PROX equals one million motes. The specified base supply is one billion PROX. Of this, 60 million, or 6%, are created at genesis and held by the founder for bootstrapping; 940 million, or 94%, enter circulation through mining. Those 940 million tokens are newly mined over time, rather than held in a reserve awaiting distribution.
Total supply is not capped at one billion: ongoing inflation is separate from base-supply distribution. The current documentation describes chain inflation initially around 10% per year, declining over time. This describes issuance mechanics; individual returns depend on participation and network conditions and are not guaranteed.
The project describes a launch without a sale, presale, airdrop, or whitelist. At genesis, the founder controls all issued tokens because the mineable portion does not yet exist. Mining is intended to spread ownership and outgrow that initial concentration. The bootstrap capital has no vesting or lockup commitment. Whether this produces sufficiently distributed control must be assessed as the network develops.
4-Founders
Proxima was created by Evaldas Drasutis, known online as lunfardo314. Drasutis authored the whitepaper and is named in the repository’s license. The project describes one-person origins spanning the concept, whitepaper, documentation, and code.
5-GitHub Development
The public Go repository dates to September 2023; GitHub does not mark it as a fork. It contains the node software and the proxi command-line wallet, connecting network operation with tools for managing transactions and participation. Activity checked on October 18, 2026 included a commit that day. Repository
The take1 release adds separate mining helpers that search for valid proof-of-work solutions, tools for combining small balances, delegation top-ups, and wallet checks that verify proofs for the ledger rules it uses. Together these changes show work across distribution, sequencing, and wallet validation. Public code and release notes make that progress inspectable; external security and performance validation remain separate evidence requirements.
6-Social Links
Official X: xitter.cf/Proxima_DLT
Founder X: xitter.cf/lunfardo314
Documentation: lunfardo314.github.io/
GitHub: github.com/lunfardo314/proxi…
Whitepaper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16456
7-Risk Score
8/10. Higher means greater risk.
An inspectable open-source implementation and explicit launch disclosures are useful strengths.
The remaining issues are founder control over stopping or resetting the network, pre-launch tokens that do not survive reset, economic consensus unproven at scale, dependence on a key developer, and ongoing inflation.
Independently operated network participation and external security and performance validation would provide concrete evidence for reassessment
One liner from Circle9 for everyone to be able to mine
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curl -fsSL gist.githubusercontent.com/c… | sudo bash
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Min Specs: Ubuntu 20.04+, 2 GB RAM, 5 GB disk, root. More cores = more hashrate.
Proxima is built on UTXO covenants from the ground up.
The UTXO ledger state commits to the library of covenants, which prevents forging.
Just shipped: the wallet is always given a cryptographic proof that the library is committed by the current ledger state.
Stopping the Proxima take 0 network, as planned.
- four weeks
- up to 25 nodes and 15 sequencers,
- 24.5M PROX mined in 49k transits by optimized CPU and GPU miners as well as the reference one.
The ledger is erased; take 0 tokens are gone, as
announced.
Lesson: too much mined capital sat idle. Take 1 fixes what software can fix.
Take 1 starts within a week, on updated ledger rules; details with its own announcement.
No guarantee, no promise. We keep going: lunfardo314.github.io/#/over…
“People in crypto don’t care about tech or decentralization. They just want to make money.”
What an old cliché. Boring. And what would people without imagination or creativity even need money for?
When humanity discovered gold, nobody was looking for money. Gold simply became money because its properties made it a perfect fit.
That’s exactly why we care about tech and decentralization at Proxima. We’re building a digital “substance” that can become digital gold for countless applications, economies, and ecosystems.
Proof-of-work can do that too, but its costs are unbounded, so it can’t sustain unbounded market caps. Proxima aims to solve this without PoW while preserving Nakamoto-style decentralization.
Read the Proxima docs: lunfardo314.github.io/#/
Proxima network, take 0, has been running for 10 days since its last reset.
Right now the network has 23 full nodes, 10 of them sequencers: the actors that push cooperative consensus forward. 12 sequencer chains live on the ledger, and 123 holders keep 300+ delegations on them.
Proxima's fair launch means that a permissionless set of players will ultimately mine the controlling stake of the network, and only then does it become decentralized. So far mined tokens make up 13% of the supply.
Mining has been lively from day one: up to 20 competing miners, and the difficulty peaked at 34 bits. Several people went further than the stock miner and vibe-coded their own GPU-optimized ones. Remarkable, given that the network will most likely be reset to genesis during October 2026, to apply the breaking changes we learned from running it.
Join the Proxima effort:
- live system monitor: http://65.21.170.230:8001/monitor
- how to take part: lunfardo314.github.io/#/part…
- the fair launch model: lunfardo314.github.io/#/over…
Proxima has started its journey to decentralization. The pre-launch network is open, and anyone can join.
It took years to get here. Proxima is a new L1 with a radical innovation at its core: cooperative consensus, reached on a DAG of transactions by token holders cooperating rather than competing. No blocks, no block proposers, no committee, no proof of work behind the consensus. Just token holders. It is Nakamoto-style decentralization on a proof-of-stake footing.
It is fair-launched. Nearly all of the supply is mined by whoever wants to, with proof of work that distributes tokens and does nothing else. There is nothing to buy and nothing for sale.
And the ledger itself is what we always wanted a UTXO ledger to be: fully programmable covenants and native tokens, from day one.
We are doing it in takes. The network starts centralized, in a pre-launch phase that can be stopped and reset at any time, and it will take a few takes to get it right. Each take goes a bit further than the last, until one of them
decentralizes and just keeps going on its own. This is take 0.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, come mine, run a node, break it, and share with the
community what you found.
Node version v0.10.1-prelaunch is out.
Fixes to peering and sync, new CLI commands, improvements in browser tools.
github.com/lunfardo314/proxi…
Proxima has started its journey to decentralization. The pre-launch network is open, and anyone can join.
It took years to get here. Proxima is a new L1 with a radical innovation at its core: cooperative consensus, reached on a DAG of transactions by token holders cooperating rather than competing. No blocks, no block proposers, no committee, no proof of work behind the consensus. Just token holders. It is Nakamoto-style decentralization on a proof-of-stake footing.
It is fair-launched. Nearly all of the supply is mined by whoever wants to, with proof of work that distributes tokens and does nothing else. There is nothing to buy and nothing for sale.
And the ledger itself is what we always wanted a UTXO ledger to be: fully programmable covenants and native tokens, from day one.
We are doing it in takes. The network starts centralized, in a pre-launch phase that can be stopped and reset at any time, and it will take a few takes to get it right. Each take goes a bit further than the last, until one of them
decentralizes and just keeps going on its own. This is take 0.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, come mine, run a node, break it, and share with the
community what you found.
Docs and how to join: lunfardo314.github.io Why a fair launch, and how it works: lunfardo314.github.io/#/over…
Proxima v0.10.0-prelaunch is out: the last testnet stage is over, the pre-launch network comes next.
Some highlights: spam/DoS resilience on every layer; core and sequencer bottlenecks removed; forward sync rewritten; full UTXO covenant programmability, native tokens as first-class citizens, conditional locks (deadline, return-to-sender, ..), covenant examples (trustless chess, DEX order-book); fair launch ready: permissionless PoW mining of the supply; ledger upgrades as a hash chain; wallet-facing code refactored for WebAssembly; network monitor, chain explorer and DAG visualizer shipped with the node; many other tools and improvements.
Release: github.com/lunfardo314/proxi…
Docs: lunfardo314.github.io
Open network start to be announced separately.
Experimental software, MIT, provided as is. Nothing sold, nothing promised.
The launch is coming closer.
The new logo is finalized.
True #permissionless DAG.
#Proxima
Stay tuned for updates.
Proxima retweeted
Fundamental properties of main blockhain consensus classes:
- in PoW you don’t know total amount of Sybil substance (hashrate), it is unbounded, therefore concept of majority is based on assumptions (that change with time)
- in PoS in general you do know the total amount of Sybil substance (tokens), it is bounded, therefore concept of majority is objective
- BFT-PoS those Sybil units are non-fungible, they carry identities (committee)
- in Nakamoto-PoS you know the total, but votes are fungible. They don’t carry identities
Proxima retweeted
Shipped: transaction-building code used by the @Proxima_DLT node — with full UTXO programmability through EasyFL covenants — is now fully WASM-compilable via TinyGo. Opens the door to rich tooling and SDKs for frontend devs.
RT @lunfardo314: I don’t know details, but it seems these Japanese dReps are doing a great job. Research, especially the academic kind, whe…
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Proxima retweeted
Shipped: @Proxima_DLT now has an on-chain order book DEX, built from standard ledger covenants. Each buy/sell order is a UTXO that trustlessly enforces atomic token swaps, timeouts, and exchange terms. Listing orders = querying the ledger. No matching engine, no custody, no intermediaries, no MEV. Full decentralization.
Proxima retweeted
1/Shipped: native tokens in @Proxima_DLT via covenants. Stablecoins, wrapped assets, whatever you need — issued under programmable, trustless foundry policies (centralized, fixed, capped, or custom).
Proxima retweeted
1/4 I don't know about Kaspa but for @Proxima_DLT I took it as a challenge. Now I can firmly say: full trustless chess server is available on the Proxima's UTXO ledger with pure covenants!
Full redeemed logic is ~8.2 KB (4.3 KB for move validator and 3.8 KB for the UTXO game covenant).





