Private Proof of Work
VELATA
Every payment on display, every detail veiled
On display nowNo. … From
Every payment on display, every detail veiled
On display nowNo. … FromVelata is a proof-of-work chain that keeps every payment forever and shows none of what matters: who paid, who was paid, and how much.
A new block about every 30 seconds. Height … as you read this.
Node, explorer, wallet and miner ship as one public program under BSD-3. Read it before you run it.
There is no transparent mode. Every transaction hides sender, receiver and amount.
Your seed is made in your browser and stays there. The node cannot see it, freeze it or spend it.
Each transaction is a sculpture with its face covered. The shape is public and every node checks it. The three details that would identify it are carved under marble, on a plinth of proof of work.
Each input signs inside a ring of 16: the real output and 15 decoys from the chain. An MLSAG signature proves one of them is yours, never which. A key image stops the same output being spent twice.
Every output lands on a one-time address derived for that payment alone. Payments to aeonq1 addresses ride with an ML-KEM-768 ciphertext only the receiver can open, with or without a quantum computer.
Amounts become Pedersen commitments with a 48-bit range proof, so no one can mint coins from a negative value. Inputs and outputs still balance, as points, and every node checks it.
Every block is found with Argon2id proof of work, about one every 30 seconds. Anyone can mine from a browser tab or the command line; rewards land on a private address.
How a Velata transaction reads in the explorer. Everything here is checked by every node; the veiled lines are what nobody can read.
Every blockchain is a permanent public copy, and no fork can unpublish a ledger. Anyone can store every transaction and wait.
A quantum computer running Shor's algorithm breaks the elliptic-curve keys that hide receivers and amounts in older privacy coins, for everything ever recorded.
Velata seals receivers and amounts with lattices from the first block, so the copy they keep stays unreadable. A velata is a veiled figure; here, the veil is never lifted.
Every figure below is read from the public node's API as the page loads and refreshed every 20 seconds. Click any of them to open the explorer.
No sign-up, no email, no download. Two minutes: make a wallet, get coins, send one private payment and check it yourself.
Open the wallet and press create. Write the seed down: it is the only way back into your wallet.
Open wallet →Claim 25 tVELA from the faucet once an hour, or mine blocks in your browser and earn the block reward.
Start mining →Send a private payment, then find it in the explorer and re-check its proofs on your own machine.
Open explorer →Supply is set by code that every node enforces, not by a team that can change its mind. These are the testnet rules for tVELA. $VELA token terms are published here, in full, at launch.
The public node also mines and runs a few demo wallets that pay each other, so every ring of 16 has real outputs to hide among. Their blocks show as node in the explorer.
The reward shrinks with every block, by a rule no one can override. Never below the tail of 2 per block.
| Velata · aeonq1 | Zcash | Monero | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receiver and amount after Q-day | Sealed | Exposed | Exposed |
| Privacy | Every transaction private | Optional shielded pools | Private by default |
| Payment detection | ML-KEM-768, lattices | Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman | Elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman |
| Spends rely on | Ring of 16 today, hash-based at Meridian | Discrete log, Halo 2 | Discrete log, ring of 16 |
| Trusted setup | None | None for Orchard | None |
A gallery proves a piece by its provenance. Every claim on this page points to a place where you can test it, without asking anyone.
The node, wallet and miner are open source. Every line that handles your keys is public.
↗ 02Ask the node directlyEvery number on this page comes from a public API. Open it and compare.
↗ 03Verify any transactionThe explorer re-checks ring signatures, range proofs and balance in your browser.
→ 04Run your own nodenpm install, npm start, and you hold and verify the whole chain yourself.
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not launched yetNo dates we cannot keep. Each step starts when the one before it is finished.
Ring signatures, stealth outputs, range proofs, ML-KEM quantum addresses, explorer, browser wallet, faucet.
Anyone can mine in the browser or with the CLI miner, rewards paid to their own private address.
The token launches on Robinhood Chain and carries the project to mainnet.
The node, its cryptography and the Meridian upgrade to hash-based spend proofs go under audit.
Genesis of the main chain with Meridian on from block 1, and the airdrop of early rewards.