Freedom Coin ============ The Protocol Constitution Sage Kratos Sound money. Quantum proof. No masters. Preamble -------- Freedom Coin exists to be sound money: scarce, honest, open to all, and answerable to no master. This Constitution sets out the principles that define it. They are fixed at the genesis block, where the hash of this document is recorded permanently, so that anyone, at any time, can confirm that the rules the network follows are the rules written here. No person, group, company, or government, the creator included, holds the power to change them. What follows is not a promise to be trusted. It is a set of guarantees to be verified. Article I — The Supply ---------------------- The total supply of Freedom Coin shall never exceed ten million (10,000,000) coins. One coin is divisible into one hundred million (100,000,000) base units, called sovereigns, and no smaller unit shall exist. This limit is absolute. No rule, upgrade, vote, or authority may ever raise it. Article II — Issuance and the Fair Launch ----------------------------------------- All coins enter existence as rewards for proof-of-work mining, on the open network, beginning at the first mined block. There was no pre-mine, no founder allocation, no sale, and no coin created or reserved before the public launch; the genesis block itself creates no spendable coins. New coins are issued on a fixed schedule across one hundred years, declining smoothly and with no halving events, until the ten-million limit is reached. After issuance ends, no new coins shall ever be created. There shall be no perpetual issuance and no tail emission. Article III — Proof of Work --------------------------- New blocks are produced by proof-of-work that is memory-hard and oriented to ordinary processors, so that mining remains open to anyone with a common computer and resists capture by specialized industrial hardware. No miner, and no class of miner, holds any privileged position. The right to mine, to validate, and to run a node belongs to everyone equally and requires no permission. Article IV — Cryptography ------------------------- Freedom Coin protects ownership and its network with post-quantum cryptography: lattice-based signatures and key encapsulation standardized by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, and hashing performed at 512-bit strength. This cryptographic foundation may never be weakened. It may be strengthened or extended only through an open, published, and voluntary upgrade that no single party controls and that each node operator chooses to adopt for themselves. Security may be added; it may never be diminished. Article V — Transparency ------------------------ The ledger is public and complete. Every coin, every transaction, and the entire supply can be verified independently by anyone, with no hidden state and no privileged view. The integrity of the money rests on what can be checked, never on what must be trusted. Article VI — No Masters ----------------------- Freedom Coin has no owner, no administrator, and no central authority. There is no key that can freeze a balance, reverse a payment, seize funds, or alter the rules. The creator holds no special power and no continuing role. The protocol's rules change only when node operators freely choose to adopt new software, and never in violation of the principles in this Constitution. Authority over Freedom Coin rests with no one, which is to say it rests with everyone who runs it. Article VII — Settlement ------------------------ The valid chain is the one carrying the greatest accumulated proof-of-work. Settlement is determined by the depth of confirmation alone, and history buried sufficiently deep is final and shall not be reorganized. No human authority decides what is settled; the proof-of-work does. Article VIII — Fees Without Tribute ----------------------------------- A minimum transaction fee exists for one reason only: to protect the network from spam. It is deliberately small and shall never become a tool to price ordinary people out of using their own money. Every fee is paid to miners as recycled coin and never creates new supply, so no fee rule may ever increase the total beyond the ten-million limit. Article IX — Immutability ------------------------- The guarantees in this Constitution are inviolable. Whatever may be improved in the software over time through open and voluntary upgrade, the following shall never change: the ten-million supply limit shall never rise; no pre-mine or retroactive issuance shall ever be granted; no master key or central authority shall ever be installed; the cryptographic protection shall never be weakened; and the ledger shall never be made secret. Any chain that violates these guarantees is, by definition, not Freedom Coin. Sealing ------- The hash of this document is recorded in the genesis block of Freedom Coin and stands as part of its foundation for as long as the network exists. These are the rules. They were fixed at the beginning, they belong to no one, and they are open for all to verify. Sound money. Quantum proof. No masters.