SEN 閃光 "a flash of light"

Private, feeless, post-quantum digital cash.

Senko behaves like cash. Each account is its own chain, so payments settle in parallel with no fees and no global queue. Transfers are private by default and verifiable when you choose to disclose, and every block is signed with post-quantum cryptography from genesis.

Read the whitepaper soon How it works
  • Block-lattice
  • Shielded ZK transfers
  • FALCON post-quantum
  • 75% to the community

Overview

Money that is private, free to move, and built for the long term

Nano showed that money does not need one global chain: give every account its own. Senko keeps that parallel, feeless design and adds the parts it left out: privacy in the account model, post-quantum signatures from genesis, and a stake-weighted finality you can reason about.

Privacy

Private by default, verifiable on demand

Amounts are hidden Pedersen commitments and receivers get fresh one-time addresses, so on the transparent layer amounts and recipients are hidden while account identities stay pseudonymous public handles, far less exposed than an open ledger but not the full unlinkability of the shielded pool. A shielded pool, active at genesis, proves note ownership and value conservation in zero knowledge, so transfers within the pool cannot be linked to one another. Entering or leaving the pool discloses that amount at the boundary; transfers that stay inside the pool do not.

When you need to prove something, selective disclosure lets you show a payment happened, show it was under a threshold, or hand an auditor a view key to your own history. Each proof is off-chain and shared point to point with one chosen party, never published on-chain.

Cost

Feeless transfers

Ordinary payments cost nothing. There is no block-space auction, because your account chain is yours alone. Spam is bounded by a one-time account-creation cost (mostly burned) and a small per-transaction proof-of-work that the wallet precomputes: work, not a fee.

Security

Post-quantum from genesis

Every block carries a hybrid Ed25519 + FALCON-512 signature, mandatory at mainnet genesis. Both must verify, so the chain stays secure even if one scheme is later broken. Shielded spend proofs are STARK-based and already post-quantum. Transparent transfers hide amounts with Pedersen commitments and classical (discrete-log) range proofs, so quantum-grade amount confidentiality lives in the shielded pool; block signatures are post-quantum everywhere from genesis.

Finality

Deterministic, not "probably"

ORVS stake-weighted finality with a beacon clock gives every node an agreed sense of time. A transaction is final once it crosses a greater-than-two-thirds quorum of bonded stake: deterministic, typically in about a second on a healthy network.

Access

Mine your way in from zero

A newcomer with no coins can open their first account by doing proof-of-work instead of paying the creation burn, so anyone can join from zero. The cold-start path ships live in the mainnet profile. It is farm-resistant, because the cost is productive compute rather than capital you already hold.

Launch

A fair launch

No pre-sale, no insider access. 75% of supply goes to the community through CPU mining and staking, the mechanisms that cost real compute and real capital. Only 5% of supply is liquid at genesis.

How it works

From your wallet to final, in four steps

A payment never waits behind anyone else's. It touches only the two accounts involved, then a stake-weighted vote makes it final.

Three account chains advancing independently. The highlighted payment is one send block joined to one receive block, so it never queues behind unrelated traffic.

  1. Build privately

    The wallet forms a block on your own account chain: a hidden amount, a one-time address for the receiver, and either a shielded proof or a range proof. It also precomputes the small proof-of-work so sending feels instant.

  2. Sign post-quantum

    The block is signed with both Ed25519 and FALCON-512. Either signature failing rejects the block, so a future break of one scheme does not forge your funds.

  3. Settle in parallel

    Because only your chain and the receiver's chain change, the transfer settles alongside every other payment on the network. There is no shared queue and no fee market to clear.

  4. Finalize by stake

    Representatives vote under a shared beacon clock. Once more than two-thirds of bonded stake agrees, the payment is final and irreversible. Equivocation is detected and the bonded stake is slashed.

Where it fits

How Senko compares

Senko keeps the strengths of feeless account-chain money, private digital cash, and proven settlement, while trying not to inherit their main trade-offs.

Property Senko Bitcoin Monero Nano
Structure Block-lattice Single chain Single chain Block-lattice
Ordinary fees None Fee market Small fee None
Privacy Shielded pool + pseudonymous base Transparent Private by default Transparent
Finality Deterministic, stake-weighted Probabilistic Probabilistic Deterministic, stake-weighted
Post-quantum signatures Yes, at genesis No No No
Selective disclosure Built in N/A View keys N/A

A summary for orientation, not a benchmark. Each project makes different trade-offs; read the whitepaper for the details behind every cell.

Distribution

A fair launch

75% of supply goes to the community, all of it earned over time through mining and staking. The remaining 25% is four separate line items that do not mix: a founder vest, a treasury genesis seed, and a treasury and development emission stream. Only the 5% treasury seed is liquid at genesis; the founder share vests linearly with no cliff over a multi-year schedule (targeted at five years), enforced on-chain, and the treasury stream is emitted over time, not granted up front.

Supply distribution (2026-06-30)
RecipientAllocationMechanism
Community: CPU mining53%RandomX proof-of-work, emitted over an 8-year window (2-year halving), front-loaded
Community: staking / rep emission22%Front-loaded emission with a small perpetual tail to reps and delegators
Founder10%Genesis-vested pool, linear no-cliff vest over a multi-year schedule (targeted at five years), on-chain escrow
Ecosystem treasury: genesis seed5%Genesis-vested pool, held by the treasury multisig, liquid at genesis
Ecosystem treasury: emission stream10%Emitted as a slice of each epoch's mint over a 5-year sunset, then 0 (not held at genesis)

"One billion coins" is a soft reference, not a hard cap. Emission is disinflationary with a small perpetual tail that funds security, while the account-creation burn pulls the other way. Parameters are subject to revision before mainnet. Nothing here is investment advice.

Participate

Run a node, become a representative

Senko is infrastructure you can join on commodity hardware. Running honestly is rewarded; equivocation is detected and the bonded stake is burned.

Mine with your CPU

Mining uses RandomX, the ASIC- and GPU-resistant algorithm Monero uses, so a normal processor stays competitive. No special hardware, no farms.

Run a full node

A laptop can run a full node, validate the chain independently, and strengthen censorship resistance. It is one binary, built reproducibly on stable Rust, so you can verify what you run.

Become a representative

Bond stake and your node helps finalize transactions for the whole network. You earn staking emission and can share it with delegators, and you take on real accountability: equivocate and you are slashed.

Delegate your stake

No infrastructure required. Delegate to a representative and share in the staking emission in proportion to bonded stake. Re-delegate any time to move your support.

senko-node --listen 0.0.0.0:7075

Read the design and build the code

  • Whitepaper link coming soon
  • Technical specification link coming soon
  • GitHub repo coming soon
  • Run-a-node guide link coming soon

Status

Built, reviewed, and being readied for mainnet

An honest account of where the project stands. No launch date, no price, no exchange-listing promises.

  1. Done

    Protocol built

    The full protocol is implemented: block-lattice, shielded pool, hybrid signatures, and stake-weighted finality.

  2. Done

    Adversarially reviewed

    The design and implementation have been reviewed in depth against an adversarial threat model.

  3. Next

    Testnet under load

    A geo-distributed testnet exercising the network and finality path under realistic load.

  4. Next

    Genesis and calibration

    The genesis ceremony and final parameter calibration before a public mainnet.