Learn Ergon
See the whole system without getting lost.
Start with a payment. Open one layer at a time. Go deeper only when curiosity pulls you there.
Three ways in
Follow your curiosity.
Start with why
The human idea behind sovereign cypher cash, without the machinery first.
Read the story ↗Interactive · FoundationsFollow a payment
See one intention move through peers, verification and shared history.
Feel the flow ↗Visual · MechanismSee the rhythm
Understand the difference between a fixed calendar and work-responsive issuance.
Open the comparison ↗Concept map
One system.
Four layers.
Move through the system at your own pace. Each layer answers one question.
You choose.
Your keys authorize value. The network does not ask for an account, a profile, or permission.
Keep this in mind
Working vocabulary
A compact glossary.
Scoped to Ergon and the public Bitcoin Static v24.0.5 baseline.
Proportional reward＋
The rule that lets the work represented by the network help shape each block reward.
Expected work＋
The average amount of computing effort implied by the current mining difficulty. It is an estimate, not a meter reading.
Fixoshi＋
The smallest integer accounting unit. One XRG equals 100,000,000 fixoshi.
UTXO＋
An unspent transaction output. Wallet balances are views over outputs controlled by the wallet’s keys.
Difficulty＋
A relative measure of how hard it is to find a valid block hash below the required target.
Chronik＋
Optional observe-and-index infrastructure. It may derive views from accepted data; it never decides consensus.
FAQ
The questions
people actually ask.
Is Ergon a stablecoin?＋
No. Ergon has no peg, reserve or guaranteed market price. It is designed to study whether proportional issuance can support useful stability; the outcome remains empirical.
Does Ergon have a fixed maximum supply?＋
No universal future maximum is encoded. Realized supply is reconstructible, while future issuance depends on future difficulty and the time correction.
Who decides whether a transaction is valid?＋
Every full node decides independently by executing the consensus rules. A website, explorer, miner or indexer cannot make an invalid transaction valid.
Is “wallet count” a network metric?＋
Not reliably. Addresses are not people or wallets: they can be reused, rotated, shared or grouped. A future observatory may publish a carefully named activity proxy instead.
Are native assets active on Ergon?＋
No. Protocol-native assets are a research question. No accepted specification, testnet activation or mainnet activation is claimed here.