Developers & researchers
Inspect public source, reproduce LOCALNET and challenge the evidence.
AVAILABLE NOWEXPERIMENTAL / LOCALNET
THE AWAKENING — DISTRIBUTED POTENTIAL
Resources are
distributed.
Coordination is
still the challenge.
Q1 is an experimental blockchain project exploring verifiable coordination and settlement for resources and services.
01 / FROM FRAGMENTATION TO POSSIBILITYScroll to explore
02 / THE PROBLEM
Capacity is only the beginning.
A resource is useful.
A trusted relationship
makes it usable.
Storage, compute and services exist across many independent machines. Bringing them together raises harder questions than simply connecting them.
What was committed? Can delivery be checked? What should happen when a commitment fails?
Q1 explores how verifiable commitments and settlement could help answer those questions.
01 — DISCOVER
What is available?
02 — VERIFY
What can be checked?
03 — COORDINATE
What can we build together?
03 / THE Q1 APPROACH
CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTUREFrom isolated capacity
to meaningful commitments.
A direction for research. Each step needs its own evidence.
- 01
Resources
Storage, CPU, GPU and infrastructure offered by independent providers.
LONG-TERM VISION - 02
Commitments
Explicit service obligations, with proposed Service Bond / escrow mechanisms.
LONG-TERM VISION - 03
Verification
Challenge-based resource access, studied under bounded experimental controls.
IN RESEARCH - 04
Settlement
Signed ledger transfers in a local test environment.
EXPERIMENTAL LOCALNETResource and service settlement: future vision, not deployed.
04 / PARTICIPATION
Different skills. A shared frontier.
Find your way into the work.
New to Q1? Today, you can run a small ledger experiment on your own computer and check whether its nodes agree. Coordinating real storage, compute and services is the longer-term goal.
Node operators
Run the local experiment on your own computer. Public network participation is not open.
LOCALNET ONLYResource providers
Explore future storage and compute participation using resources you already own. No onboarding or compensation is available.
LONG-TERM VISIONService builders
Consider future services and autonomous-agent coordination. These are proposed directions, not operational products.
LONG-TERM VISION05 / TECHNOLOGY & STATUS
EVIDENCE BEFORE CLAIMSAmbition needs
an honest baseline.
Q1 LOCALNET v0 is a frozen experimental release for local reproduction. Public source does not mean a public network.
Inspect v0.1.0-localnet.1- Published release
- EXPERIMENTAL LOCALNET
- Public Testnet
- BLOCKED
- Independent external validation
- LEVEL 0
- Complete independent security audit
- NOT PERFORMED
- Public mining / live resource marketplace
- NOT AVAILABLE
THE CONVERGENCE — RULES BEFORE TRUST
Connection is not proof of fulfillment. The local ledger tests signed transfers and fixed voting rules; it does not verify delivery of external services.
1 producer3 fixed voters2 votes finalize
One computer. Loopback only. Fixed participants.
Signed transfers, durable commits and voter catch-up.
Project status reviewed . Source documents describe their own dated evidence.
Read the evidence boundaries
Resource-access trials do not prove physical HDD ownership, continuous availability or permissionless resource uniqueness. Earlier resource experiments exposed regeneration and identity-splitting weaknesses.
Published research after the frozen LOCALNET release studies resource access and bounded failover with fixed participants. These experiments do not establish permissionless resource uniqueness, independent native multi-host acceptance or a public Testnet. The frozen release and later research have distinct scopes.
No Mainnet readiness, public mining, token sale, public economic distribution or guaranteed rewards are claimed. LOCALNET does not secure real-world value. Never expose its node ports to the Internet.
06 / ROADMAP
Progress through evidence. No promised dates.
A sequence of questions
worth answering well.
THE EMERGENCE — SHARED POSSIBILITIES
CONCEPTUAL VISION — NOT YET DEPLOYED
Independent resources.
New ways to cooperate.
Imagine people and machines coordinating storage, compute and services through checkable commitments. Resource markets, Service Bond, escrow and AI orchestration remain future directions.
- AVAILABLE NOW / EXPERIMENTAL
Reproduce the local baseline
Inspect the frozen release and independently check its documented behavior.
- IN RESEARCH
Challenge the assumptions
Study resource evidence, recovery and independent-host operation. External validation remains LEVEL 0.
- PUBLIC TESTNET BLOCKED
Establish public-network readiness
Resolve and verify admission, fault assumptions, transport, partitions and recovery before opening participation.
- LONG-TERM VISION
Explore useful services at network scale
Research resource markets and service commitments. Any future Mainnet requires finalized economics, production custody, governance and independent security review.
07 / BUILD WITH US
Be curious.
Bring evidence.
The next meaningful contribution could be a result someone else can reproduce. Start with the code, test the local release and share what you find.
- 01 / READ
Understand the baseline.
Review source, scope and known limitations.
Read the source & status ↗ - 02 / REPRODUCE
Try the local experiment.
Follow the guide’s pinned revision and prerequisites on your own computer.
Reproduce LOCALNET ↗ - 03 / REPORT
Share what happened.
Success, failure and unclear instructions all help. Redact personal data and logs.
Report non-sensitive findings ↗
Security-sensitive findings: follow SECURITY.md. Use an existing private maintainer channel if available; otherwise retain details locally until an official private intake is announced. Do not post exploit details or keys in public Issues.
Technical participation today. No allocation, admission or rewards promised.