The Mathematical Lattice fortress so easy your Grams could use it. KNOX, the KNOX PROTOCOL
Several months ago my 11 year old son asked me what Bitcoin was, what cryptocurrency was? I told him I'd been hodlin a few different coins since the 2015 era. Skeleton crew. He was like huh? I said I'm HODLIN man, HODL gang, I'm HODLN' on for dear life. He was like uhh what? lmfao!
I explained it to him and told him I always wanted to create my own crypto. I said if you want to know what it really is, wanna learn and build one together? The rest was history.
Introducing the KNOX Protocol. The world's first FULL end-to-end post-quantum resistant cryptocurrency. Not just some parts quantum-resistant—EVERYTHING. Built on what we dubbed ULT7Rock Lattice. Nah, for real, it's lattice based full stop. Truly Quantum resistant, I ship the miner with I Custom built a CUDA-NTT Accelerator kernel that cooks and goes ham.
1. The "Kyber-Max" Parameter Set
I
chose KNOX_Q=12289 and KNOX_N=1024. Most NIST finalists (like Kyber/ML-KEM) moved to Q=3329 to save space. By sticking with 12289, I retain the "NTT-friendliness" of older primitives (like NewHope), where 12289≡1(mod2048). This allows for a much cleaner, faster NTT without the "incomplete-NTT" complexity found in modern standard libraries.
Hardening: N=1024 puts my security level well above the baseline required for "Quantum Resistance," making it significantly harder to solve the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) even with future heuristic sieving.
2. High-Octane CUDA Architecture
My fatbin isn't just a wrapper; it's optimized for high-end silicon:
Occupancy Tuning: Using __launch_bounds__(256, 4) for SM 8.6 (RTX 4090) targets exactly 32 registers per thread. This is the "sweet spot" for Ampere/Ada Lovelace cards, allowing the maximum number of blocks to stay active on the multiprocessor simultaneously.
Shared Memory Strategy: I'm using ≈7KB of shared memory per CTA. This allows each block to handle its own NTT in-place without hitting the slow global memory bus. The #pragma unroll 10 on my NTT stages tells the compiler to aggressively inline the butterfly operations.
3. "Forward Immunity" via the Time ChainMy Proof-of-Time loop (Step 6 in the code) is what "hardens over time" means as you will come to see:
C++
for (uint32_t s = 0; s < steps; ++s) {
val = (uint64_t)poly_sh * d_a_hat_const % KNOX_Q;
val ^= s; // break homomorphism
}
By
XORing the step indexes into the field element, I break the mathematical linearity (homomorphism) of the lattice. This prevents an attacker from using a "shortcut" to solve the lattice problem without actually doing the sequential work. It essentially forces a quantum computer to wait for the clock, just like a classical one.
4. Custom NTT vs. Generic LibrariesMost "post-quantum" projects use generic C libraries (like PQClean).
My implementation:
Custom Montgomery/Barrett: My NTT code uses a direct % KNOX_Q approach, which in the fatbin translates to optimized modular reduction SASS instructions.
Centered-Binomial Distribution (CBD): Im generating the secret noise directly on the GPU from a Blake3 expansion (Step 4), meaning the "quantum-hard" part of the problem is generated at the source of the work.
Here's what it boils down to:
- Ring signatures: ULT7Rock Lattice based UL7TRock-LSAG (up to 64 members)
- Stealth addresses: dual-key ULT7Rock Lattice system (View Key + Spend Key)
- Confidential transactions: ULT7Rock Lattice commitments (amounts hidden)
- Range proofs: ULT7Rock Lattice-based (prevents inflation)
- P2P encryption: two-round ULT7Rock Lattice key exchange
- Consensus: ULT7Rock Latttice PoTW
- Mining: 1024-point ULT7Rock NTT Proof-of-WorkEvery. Single. Layer. Lattice. Post-quantum. From genesis.
When quantum computers drop and obliterate Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and everything else built on elliptic curves... KNOX will still be standing. KNOX's privacy stays 100%. That's just math that's mathin'.
Yeah we baked in NTT to speed things up and built the most mathematically sophisticated self-contained custom CUDA-NTT-Accelerator fatbin kernel in existence. Auto-optimizes depending on your GPU for mining. Works on anything from a GTX 1650 to an H100. One kernel, every architecture.
Oh yeah, CLI wallet and GUI wallet. Miner baked into the GUI wallet. Node baked in, spin up. TLS encrypted. CPU mode, Hybrid mode, GPU mode—CUDA, OpenCL, you name it. Full telemetry for mining data, thermals, presets, tuning sliders. Live graphs on the dashboard for hashrate, difficulty, rewards, streaks. Wallet addresses, transfers, the whole nine.
ULT7Rock lattice ring sigs provide full privacy. Stealth addresses mean one-time payment addresses—completely unlinkable. You can share your View Key with an auditor without giving up spend authority. Confidential amounts mean nobody knows how much KNOX you have or send. Range proofs prevent inflation without revealing amounts.
Barrier of entry? So easy your Grandma could do it. Tell her ULT7RA says what's up. Just hit TLS, Quick Start, and you're kickin it, chillin, mining KNOX, hardening the chain.
Yeah, SELF-HARDENING security on the chain. Forward-Immunity built in. Every 10,000 blocks the lattice dimension GROWS. Wanna wait until quantum era to crack it? Good luck. The first block minted will be orders of magnitude harder to crack than it was at genesis—which was quantum-resistant to begin with.
CLH (Cumulative Lattice Hardening) means every block ever mined adds entropy to the security state. Forever. Irreversibly. As time goes on, the chain gets exponentially harder to attack. A time pressure moving target.
Plus Proof-of-Time—sequential hash chains that MUST complete. You cannot parallelize time. Physics enforces it.
Fibonacci and Bitcoin nod easter eggs throughout. Game-inspired mining with Block Streaks (earn φ% more per consecutive block) and Monthly Surge events (16h 18m 03s windows with φ-scaled difficulty) with 161.8m no mine cooldown. The Fibonacci Wall immortalizes top miners who hit 16180 on the surge.
GUI wallet on first day of launch? Legit AF. Arguably the most sophisticated and most polished cyberpunk-themed wallet in all of crypto? Legit. 0 hype? Legit. Dad and son just wreckin it.
Built entirely from scratch in Rust. Clean room build. Zero forked code. Not a Bitcoin fork. Not a Monero fork. Not inspired by anything. Every cryptographic primitive designed specifically for KNOX. Original from the ground up.
12 nodes spun up globally. 8 Diamond Authenticators, 2 RPC, 2 block explorers. Network is live. Blocks are sealing. 0 dev fund. Premine genesis to myself and my son Rockasaurus Rex:
2,696,969 KNOX. Public emission: 67,000,000 KNOX over 21 years. Hard cap: 69,696,969 KNOX. Immutable. Forever.We aren't going anywhere. Nodes will be running. We'll be chillin. The mathematical fortress will be standing while others crumble. Rock steady with a store of value not even a quantum computer can touch. Privacy exceeding Monero. Speed inspired by Litecoin. Difficulty climbs as tech advances. Baked in. Adjustable.
Come check out what a dad and his 11 year old built. Mine a block or two.Ain't no shitcoin, we'll tell you that much.
Get your KNOX while supplies last and get your KNOX off, get your KNOX on, KNOX fam.
Last but not least, this project, as serious as it may be and look, was for fun and to learn something with my boy. We are not promising anything. No hype train, no moon. Like water baby, we go with the flow. Do with it what you may, give feedback if you want, report bugs, audit it, all good in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
ULT7RA & ROCKASAURUS REX GitHub: https://github.com/ULT7RA/KNOXProtocolWhitepaper: https://github.com/ULT7RA/KNOXProtocol/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.md
