Anonymous proof-of-work · FC
What if Kaspa was anonymous?
FireCash is a fork of Kaspa that makes value anonymous by default — the same ten-blocks-per-second proof-of-work BlockDAG, with every amount, sender, and recipient hidden by construction.
Kaspa proved proof-of-work can confirm blocks in a fraction of a second — but its ledger is fully public. firecash keeps the speed and changes the default.
All value lives in a shielded pool. The only public quantity is the fee a spender chooses to expose to the miner, so privacy is a property of the whole network rather than of the few who opt in.
Every coinbase reward and transfer commits to an Orchard note-commitment tree. Balances are zero-knowledge notes, not cleartext outputs.
GHOSTDAG at ten blocks per second. The DAG keeps proof-of-work security intact under a high block rate.
Transactions verify with succinct Halo 2 proofs — no trusted setup. Value conservation is checked without revealing amounts.
No presale, no allocation. Low opening difficulty lets ordinary CPUs mine from block one, then ramps to steady state over the first day.
| Network | Block time | Privacy model | Private by default |
|---|---|---|---|
| firecash | 0.1 s | Orchard · Halo 2 | Yes |
| Zcash | 75 s | Orchard · Halo 2 | No — opt-in |
| Monero | 120 s | Ring signatures · RingCT | Yes |
A pure emission schedule: coins exist only because they were mined. The subsidy halves every three months — four times faster than a Bitcoin-style annual schedule — front-loading issuance to the miners who secure the network early, then tapering quickly. Launch difficulty starts low and rises over the first day, so rewards reach ordinary participants from the start.
Fair proof-of-work launch. Shielded-by-default coinbase and payments on a ten-blocks-per-second GHOSTDAG BlockDAG.
Adopt the next-generation privacy primitive advanced by Monero — membership against every note ever created, not a fixed ring.
Programmable value that stays confidential — contracts executing over shielded state, so applications inherit the base layer's privacy.
firecash is open, permissionless, and mined by anyone. Come build it.