Announcing Neptune Cash

[Sword Smith]

Hi all!

I'm happy to announce a launch date for a project that I've been working on (together with others) for almost four years now: Neptune Cash https://neptune.cash/

TL;DR

• new layer 1
• post-quantum secure
• anonymous
• client-side proving with zk-STARKs; blockchain verifies
• proof-of-work
• Turing-complete smart contract platform
• fixed supply limit (42.000.000 coins) because of halvings every 3 years
• small premine (< 1.98% of supply limit)

Unless we observe substantial problems between now and then, the launch date is set to noon (UTC) tomorrow, 2025-02-11.

Repo: https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core
website: https://neptune.cash
IRC: #neptune on Libera Chat

[2Q9acN]

If you launch without premine I will invest significant amount of my resources into buying the coin.
The price would do better without the premine. Take this into account.

[Sword Smith]

If you launch without premine I will invest significant amount of my resources into buying the coin.
The price would do better without the premine. Take this into account.

I understand the sentiment. However, this project has been in development for almost four years, and we've paid salaries. Without those salaries this wouldn't have been possible. The money for those salaries have come from selling premine tokens. See https://old-talk.neptune.cash/post/1/11 for my thoughts on this.

Hi all!

I'm happy to announce a launch date for a project that I've been working on (together with others) for almost four years now: Neptune Cash https://neptune.cash/

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We're a bit delayed. Probably not more than a few hours. Main net will be released on `master` on https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/ and be called version 0.1.0. Binaries will be available shortly after. Don't run main net yet, as your Genesis block will disagree with what we launch in a few hours.

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[2Q9acN]

I understand the sentiment. However, this project has been in development for almost four years, and we've paid salaries. Without those salaries this wouldn't have been possible. The money for those salaries have come from selling premine tokens. See https://talk.neptune.cash/post/1/11 for my thoughts on this.

There is a way to fulfill whatever contracts you've signed. Launch with a premine. Stop developing the project after the launch.
Fork the project anonymously and launch it again, this time without any premine. Do it and the number-go-up culture will be with you.  

[Sword Smith]

Habemus main net; habemus Neptune Cash
https://github.com/Neptune-Crypto/neptune-core/

[wanganxiu]

How to mine??? Is the mainnet open now?

[Sword Smith]

How to mine??? Is the mainnet open now?

Yes. It's open.

How to mine?

Something like this:

Code:

neptune-core --network main --peers [2a02:21b4:b885:3f00:75cd:122a:b92:1dbe]:9798 --guess

[atta2k22]

not working, no connections

[Sword Smith]

not working, no connections

Try one of (or all of) these nodes:

• [2a02:21b4:b885:3f00:75cd:122a:b92:1dbe]:9798
• 51.15.139.238:9798
• 139.162.193.206:9798
• 151.115.78.81:9798

One of my nodes have over 20 connections, so there's definitely a couple of dozen machines on the network.

However, if you can't connect to anyone because you're behind a firewall, that's a problem that either you have to solve your self, or ask your network administrator to solve.

[atta2k22]

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[atta2k22]

Outgoing connection attempt to 151.115.78.81:9798 refused. Reason: MaxPeerNumberExceeded. Failed to establish connection.

2025-02-12T04:51:57.290776607Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: Established outgoing TCP connection with 51.15.139.238:9798
2025-02-12T04:51:57.347948601Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: Outgoing connection accepted by 51.15.139.238:9798
2025-02-12T04:51:57.350232998Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: ConnectionStatus::Accepted
2025-02-12T04:51:57.351928335Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::peer_loop: Peer closed connection.
2025-02-12T04:51:57.35218073Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: Connection to 51.15.139.238:9798 closing

[atta2k22]

Outgoing connection attempt to 151.115.78.81:9798 refused. Reason: MaxPeerNumberExceeded. Failed to establish connection.

2025-02-12T04:51:57.290776607Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: Established outgoing TCP connection with 51.15.139.238:9798
2025-02-12T04:51:57.347948601Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: Outgoing connection accepted by 51.15.139.238:9798
2025-02-12T04:51:57.350232998Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: ConnectionStatus::Accepted
2025-02-12T04:51:57.351928335Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::peer_loop: Peer closed connection.
2025-02-12T04:51:57.35218073Z  INFO ThreadId(14) neptune_cash::connect_to_peers: Connection to 51.15.139.238:9798 closing

telnet 51.15.139.238 9798
Trying 51.15.139.238...
Connected to 51.15.139.238.
Escape character is '^]'.

[vostokzyf]

Can't connect at all, let him play alone

[atta2k22]

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[Sword Smith]

Block explorers:
https://neptunefundamentals.org
https://explorer.neptune.cash/

[torjusg]

Although a very interesting looking project, 1,98% premine is a very substantial percentage of available supply for a very long time.

[marklin]

cpu or gpu??miner??

[2Q9acN]

Are there any exchange listing plans?

[Sword Smith]

Are there any exchange listing plans?

Not by the team behind Neptune. But by other people, yes. We think the market handles this.

DYOR:
https://safetrade.com/exchange/NPT-USDT?type=basic

[Sword Smith]

Are there any exchange listing plans?

Also, since Neptune is a Turing-complete smart contract platform, on top of being private money, it's possible to build cross-chain atomic swaps to both Bitcoin and Ethereum.