Frostcoin Network
FCN is the public brand for Frost materials on finux.tech. Production Layer 0 is CometBFT BFT with 300-second blocks — that choice is locked. Cryptonite-inspired account-tree / pruning work is a later research lane, documented only; Frost will not fork Cryptonite (XCN) PoW for L0.
✓ Production L0 — locked
- CometBFT + Cosmos SDK (or equivalent BFT)
- Block interval 300 seconds
- Open ledger transparency (not Zcash / not XMR privacy as security story)
- FTC only on consensus / fee / reward path
- FRST / FsZT stay Layer 3 — never CheckTx / DeliverTx
- ETC remains temporary EVM bootstrap host
◇ Research later — not L0
- Ideas inspired by Cryptonite’s mini-blockchain literature
- Account tree / balance sheet · prune old txs · fast sync concepts
- No fork of XCN · no M7 PoW as Frost L0
- Studied only after BFT mainnet path is shipping
- May inform optional modules / pruning research — never replaces BFT baseline
- Full write-up: docs/fcn-cryptonite.md
What FCN means on this site
Visitors may see “Frostcoin Network” / FCN alongside FrostChain and Frost Protocol. That branding is intentional for finux.tech marketing and docs. It does not mean a separate live PoW mainnet is running, and it does not reopen the L0 architecture decision.
Cryptonite (reference only)
Cryptonite (XCN) pioneered a mini-blockchain scheme: account tree for balances, proof chain, pruning of old transactions, ~1 min blocks, M7 PoW. Frost engineers may study those scalability ideas. FrostChain production consensus remains BFT @ 300s.
Honesty checklist
- No claim of a live FCN/FrostChain mainnet on this scaffold.
- No private keys in the site or repo genesis intent.
- Genesis transparency and ETC bootstrap reasons stay as documented.
- Sound chain first — research second.