TECHNOLOGY
Designed for an infrastructure marketplace.
Every section below either cites a documented source or says planned. Nothing here is a performance claim.
01 · CONSENSUS
Consensus
Proof-of-work, derived from Kaspa with documented differences. Existing kHeavyHash hardware mines it with no firmware change.
- Algorithm
- kHeavyHash proof-of-work
- Target block time
- 10 seconds
- Difficulty
- retargeting per documented schedule
02 · NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
Network architecture
An EVM chain with its own JSON-RPC extensions.
- Chain ID
- 5768 testnet · 5769 mainnet, not launched
- Execution
- EVM, London
- RPC namespaces
- eth_ · net_ · web3_ · txpool_
- Kronex methods
- 22 custom krnx_ methods
- Block gas limit
- 30,000,000
- Public endpoint
- rpc.kronex.network
03 · PERFORMANCE
Performance
Two numbers, one of them measured, with its method beside it. Measurement, not a capability — no badge.
Those are the only two performance numbers on this page. Transaction throughput has not been benchmarked, so it is not published — a figure without a method is a claim, and a claim is what this section exists to avoid.
04 · SECURITY
Security
The consensus-level part. The economic and audit material lives on /security.
- Chain security
- proof-of-work
- Difficulty retargeting
- documented schedule
- Workshares
- self-verifying parent-chain work proofs
05 · PRIVACY
Privacy
Nothing is implemented, so nothing is described here.
The privacy layer is planned and no mechanism is specified on this page.
06 · MARKETPLACE PROTOCOL
Marketplace protocol
Planned, and described where it belongs.
The marketplace protocol is planned; the order primitive it would introduce is described on its own page.
07 · EXECUTION
Execution
Ordinary Ethereum tooling, unmodified.
- EVM version
- London
- Transaction types
- 0 · 1 · 2
- Deployment
- Solidity via Hardhat or Foundry
08 · ECONOMICS
Chain economics
Block-level economics. Marketplace fee sources are a separate subject.
- Block rewards
- issued per documented schedule
- Recipient distribution
- configurable per block
- Coin locking
- supported
- Difficulty retargeting
- documented schedule
This is the economics of producing a block. The nine potential marketplace fee sources are a different subject and live on their own page.
09 · INTEROPERABILITY
Merged mining
External chain work is bound into Kronex blocks, and workshares make that work self-verifying.
- SHA256d · BCH
- Scrypt · LTC
- KawPoW · RVN
- Equihash · ZEC
Mining on Kronex — direct and merged →
Merged mining lets work performed for another proof-of-work chain be bound into a Kronex block. Pool integrations exist for BCH, LTC, RVN and ZEC. Workshares travel with that work as a self-verifying parent-chain proof, so the binding does not depend on trusting the pool.
Workshare — a self-verifying parent-chain proof, carried with the work it attests.
WHAT EXISTS TODAY
What exists today
Most of this page is running on the testnet today: consensus, network architecture, security, execution, chain economics and merged mining. Sections 05 and 06 — privacy and the marketplace protocol — are not built. Mainnet has a chain ID and has not launched.
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