WE DID IT ! We just sent the first layer 1 blockchain transaction over lora radio. No internet. no cellular. no satellite.
193 bytes, signed with ed25519, validated locally, on real hardware.
@lilygo9 t-beam to lilygo t-beam, 868 mhz, two years of work landing in a single packet.
What does this actually mean ?
The entire crypto industry talks about decentralization and builds everything on top of an internet connection. as if it's never occurred to anyone that a government would cut that connection the second it serves them.
@web3privacy has been screaming about this for years. They're right..
580 million people hold crypto. three trillion dollars on chain. all of it depends on a server somewhere being online. wait until they cut your internet. your wallet won't be drained. it'll just be worth nothing.
Arxia removes that dependency at the protocol layer. block lattice consensus. orv stake-weighted voting. crdt reconciliation when partitions reconnect. unique nonce per wallet, signed receiver field, four-tier finality with explicit caps so you always know what guarantee you're holding. 34 of 34 protocol tests passing. fully open source.
What we aim for ? A layer 1 that doesn't die when the network does. a wallet that works in a blackout, a war zone, a kill switch event, a solar storm, a protest where they pull the plug. the blockchain that runs when the internet is dead.
today we proved the radio leg works. next is the mesh, the field deployment, the public testnet, the ido, the mainnet.
@LoRaAlliance