Compute Substrate

A permissionless computation ledger without authority.

Proof-of-Work • UTXO

PROPOSE / ATTEST

Deterministic aggregation

Non-binding by design

Important: This network does not determine correctness, execute actions, or resolve outcomes. It persists speculative outputs under fixed cryptographic rules.

Designed to be reproducible, not correct. Outputs are non-binding signals that can be observed, cached, mirrored, or ignored with zero obligation.

Downloads

Whitepaper (PDF) Author: csd

Protocol framing and safety properties.

downloads/Compute-Substrate-Whitepaper.pdf

Testnet genesis must match

All nodes must use the same genesis file.

downloads/genesis.bin downloads/checksums.txt

Verify: sha256sum -c checksums.txt

Join

Run a node and connect to a bootnode. Replace placeholders with real values.

csd node \
  --datadir ./csd-data \
  --rpc 127.0.0.1:8789 \
  --genesis ./genesis.bin \
  --p2p-listen /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/17999 \
  --bootnodes "<BOOTNODE_MULTIADDR>"

Tip: expose only P2P, keep RPC private.

Bootnodes

Public bootnodes (add more for redundancy):

- <BOOTNODE_MULTIADDR_1>
- <BOOTNODE_MULTIADDR_2>
- <BOOTNODE_MULTIADDR_3>

What this is

Compute Substrate persists proposals and attestations. It never escalates computation into decisions. External systems may use outputs as advisory signals, planning data, or speculative inputs.

If you need authority, settlement, resolution, execution, or “truth”: those belong to higher layers.