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Useful proof-of-work, verification, and on-chain assets — explained so you can check the claims, not just take them on faith.
Technical · 7 posts
How-to walkthroughs: mining, verifying, and registering a model.
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Proof v4: the intelligence multiplier
Proof v4 makes each block's difficulty reflect its sampling behaviour. Results from an honest development bank and mainnet blocks through 12 September 2026 show how the intelligence multiplier applies across tasks and epochs.
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Trust in action: how verification caught an fp8 miner
A miner used fp8 on a smaller GPU and submitted the proof as bf16. Independent recomputation caught the precision substitution, while the sampling path closes the obvious refinement.
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TIP‑2 & TIP‑3 activate at mainnet height 8,000
Two protocol upgrades activate together at mainnet block 8,000: fully arbitrary contracts‑for‑difference on chain (TIP‑2), and proof v3 (TIP‑3) — prompt‑bound proofs that tighten security and open mining to inference workloads with lower sampling entropy. Update your miner, full node, and verifier before the height.
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How to run a verifier: for yourself, or as a service
The TensorCash verifier is open source. Run it one of two ways: for yourself, so you trust nobody for 'the model ran' — or as a service, so one box you operate answers that question for miners, nodes and explorers at once. Same engine, pointed inward or outward.
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How to run a node: the chain, verified on your own machine
Sync a TensorCash full node — pruned or archival — and re-check every rule yourself, including the one that's unique here: that the AI model behind each block actually ran. One switch decides whether you verify that locally or delegate it.
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How to run the wallet: the desktop app and what it lets you do
The TensorCash desktop wallet isn't a UI in front of someone's server — it's a full node with a GUI. Install it (or build it), create a wallet, and use the same app to issue assets, register AI models, and build contracts, all checked by the node it runs.
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How to mine TensorCash: a walkthrough
A practical, copy-paste guide to running a TensorCash miner — on a Mac, an NVIDIA box, or a plain CPU. Pick your hardware, choose how much you want to run yourself, and start producing proofs.
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Concepts · 6 posts
How it works under the hood — verification, difficulty, and the trade-offs we chose.
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Decentralisation Day
Around 850 addresses earned mining rewards in four weeks, five pools compete, and roughly a fifth of all mined coins sit at addresses that never mined them. TensorCash is now as much in your hands as in ours — signed at block 24,000 by the genesis key and four addresses it drew.
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One chain, many models: how TensorCash runs multiple AI models
A quick guide to TensorCash model registration, hashpower confirmation, model-adjusted difficulty, parallel mining and deterministic validation.
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Welcome to the Bitcoin genesis era
TensorCash enters its next emission epoch at block 22,165. Why the subsidy moves from 92.664 to 55.5984 TSC, why the schedule keeps a ~21 million limit, and why its epochs differ from Bitcoin's.
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TensorCash magic: mining inference is the same as normal inference
TensorCash mining runs the same autoregressive generation as normal LLM inference. The model, top-50 probabilities and output quality stay unchanged; only the sampler's pseudorandom source is chain-derived.
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What sets TensorCash apart
TensorCash makes real inference the block work, then turns the mining proof into the receipt that lets the inference be sold on the open market without trusting the provider.
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PoW vs. useful PoW: same security, the joules do a job
Classic proof-of-work and useful proof-of-work secure a block the same way: it just has to be expensive to produce. Only useful PoW points that expense at a real forward pass, so the proof that a model ran is what extends the chain.
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Topics · 5 posts
Assets, settlement, custody, and what a layer-1 built for them looks like.
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The reply that mines the chain: inside TensorCash's third-party ecosystem
A chat platform where AI replies become mining work, a confidential agent platform with browser self-custody, and three public pools — all built by independent operators.
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Real-World Assets on TensorCash: the ticker is the easy part
A ticker is a label, not a legal relationship. How TensorCash joins consensus-enforced asset rules with a versioned legal document that travels with the asset — illustrated by a live private share-administration issuance on mainnet and UKLTD, the public educational reference on testnet.
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Post-quantum is on TensorCash
Post-quantum spending is live on TensorCash from block zero. Witness v2 (tc1z…) disables Taproot key-path spending by consensus; the standard wallet template commits to a single ML-DSA leaf under FIPS 204, leaving no secp256k1 path. How it works — the address, the signature, coin and assets on the rail, and what to know before you use it.
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COMPUTE has exchanged hands — first OTC trade fully on-chain
A tokenised difficulty option and its payment settled in a single mainnet transaction — negotiated peer-to-peer and co-signed with adaptor signatures straight from the desktop wallet. No exchange, no escrow, no custodian.
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COMPUTE — options on the network difficulty, settled by the chain header itself
Two option series over the COMPUTE Index — difficulty read as AI-inference throughput — live on TensorCash mainnet, settled on-chain from the block header, no oracle.
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