Notes from the team
News, engineering deep-dives, and protocol design notes from the Anemos team.
The Height-3648 Halt: When an Exclusion Rule Excludes Everyone
The consensus and oracle availability gates that keep a low-scoring validator from proposing have a failure mode no one designed for: if they ever exclude the whole seated committee at once, nothing can propose, no ...
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Oracle Economics v2: Paying Attesters, Making Bans Expensive
v0.9.0 closes two gaps in the oracle's incentives: attesting correctly now earns a share of the block reward (so it stops being a favor), and the ...
Pooled Staking: Earn From a Validator, Starting at 500 ANM
Anemos opens staking to everyone with a pooled delegation marketplace: delegate from as little as 500 ANM to an operator's validator pool, claim your ...
The Anemos Testnet Today
A tour of the live Anemos testnet — validators across four continents, a block explorer, a faucet, and public docs. One important caveat stated ...
Run a Full Anemos Node on Your Phone
The Anemos Android app embeds the real daemon, and choosing a full node instead of a pruned one is a single tickbox at setup. Here is why phone-sized ...
Hardening the Oracle: Escalating Slashes, Provability, and a Quorum That Expands
A follow-up to our consensus-embedded oracle post. The v0.0.3 hardening adds an escalating deviation slash with lazy decay, splits penalties by ...
Committee Size: How a Committee of Four Locked Everyone Else Out
A subtle interaction between a small genesis committee and the BFT power-displacement rule kept the testnet committee stuck at four validators — no ...
Anemos v0.1.0: The Rename Is Complete, and Meet Gust
v0.1.0 is a breaking API release: the pactus→anemos purge is finished end-to-end — module path, wire namespace, gRPC/JSON-RPC/REST, all three wallets ...
Introducing Anemos: A Fair-Launch Layer-1 with a Native Stablecoin
Anemos is a fair-launch, BFT-final proof-of-stake chain with a native, protocol-level overcollateralized stablecoin and a consensus-embedded price ...
The Anemos Stablecoin: A Native, Overcollateralized, Self-Stabilizing Design
A technical look at the Anemos stablecoin: integer-only mint/redeem against a collateral floor, an O(1) rebase index for golden-age interest, an ...
A Consensus-Embedded Price Oracle: Slash Deviation, Never Absence
How Anemos derives a canonical ANM/USD price inside consensus — a rotating committee subset signs prices into a per-block OracleData section the ...
Fair-Launch Tokenomics: Minted Emission Without a Premine
Anemos has no premine, no treasury balance, no foundation reward, and no supply cap. The block subsidy is minted per block by a Kaspa-style decaying ...