Works on Mac and Linux. Installs Rust, RandomX, builds the node,
and creates startup scripts automatically. Takes about 5 minutes
depending on your connection.
The block explorer runs locally at explorer.html once the node
is up — shows live blocks, transactions, node identity, and
FALCON-512 public key.
Happy to help anyone who runs into issues getting set up.
curious about the FALCON-512 integration, are you using it for transaction signing only, or also for node identity/P2P authentication? the latter is where most "quantum-resistant" chains cut corners.
Great question — currently FALCON-512 is used for transaction signing only.
Node identity and P2P authentication use standard TCP connections without
post-quantum authentication at the transport layer, which you're right to
flag as a corner being cut.
The roadmap has P2P authentication as a Phase 2 item before public testnet.
The plan is to use FALCON-512 for node identity keys as well, so every
peer connection is authenticated with post-quantum signatures.
For the current Cori Testnet the threat model assumes honest nodes —
which is reasonable for a testnet but not acceptable for mainnet.
Full post-quantum P2P authentication is a hard requirement before mainnet launch.
Appreciate you asking the hard question rather than the easy ones.
haha that's the right call to make it a hard requirement before mainnet. the transport layer is often where production deployments get compromised even when the crypto primitives are sound. good luck with the testnet!;)
Update: just implemented it. Each node now generates a persistent
FALCON-512 keypair on first startup stored in node_identity.json.
Node ID is exposed at GET /identity and included in /status.
Block mining signatures now include the node's FALCON-512 signature.
P2P peer registration includes node_id exchange.
You can now join the Cori Testnet with one command:
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kstyle12/qubit-topcoin/mai... | bash
Works on Mac and Linux. Installs Rust, RandomX, builds the node, and creates startup scripts automatically. Takes about 5 minutes depending on your connection.
The block explorer runs locally at explorer.html once the node is up — shows live blocks, transactions, node identity, and FALCON-512 public key.
Happy to help anyone who runs into issues getting set up.