[ANN] Howlcoin (HOWL) — native Scrypt L1 with live explorer (Howlscan)
TL;DR
Howlcoin is a small native Scrypt proof-of-work chain (own L1 — not an ERC-20 / BEP-20).
Public explorer:
https://howlscan.orgWallet app:
https://howlscan.org/appGitHub:
https://github.com/happyoils710/howlcoinPublic seed: 147.182.223.204:42069
Live summary API:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/summary This is early / experimental. Code, explorer, and a public seed are live.
Not financial advice. DYOR. No guarantees.
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What it is
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• Name / ticker: Howlcoin (HOWL)
• Type: native coin on its own blockchain
• Algorithm: Scrypt (N=1024, r=1, p=1)
• Target block time: ~60 seconds
• Decimals: 8
• Difficulty: smooth retarget (protocol 0.6.x)
• Software version (public node / explorer stack): 0.6.4
• Genesis hash:
0d68808113e87246fabb74cc8d0d1e00b611c21c29d62b519ef72f8d16f25342
Genesis block:
https://howlscan.org/#/public/block/0 Howlcoin is a real L1: mineable PoW, peer network, explorer, wallet, open JSON APIs.
It is not “a token pretending to be a coin.”
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What you can do today
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Howlscan (explorer)
• Blocks, transactions, addresses, mempool, richlist
• Search typeahead / autocomplete — type height, H… address, @name, or pages
(dropdown while typing, like other major explorers)
• Howl City live feed, Play (pots / names / howls), charts, network status
• Public nodes page:
https://howlscan.org/#/nodes Wallet
• Browser wallet:
https://howlscan.org/app Network
• Public seed: 147.182.223.204:42069
• Seeds API:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/seeds• Connect example:
python3 -m howl node --connect 147.182.223.204:42069
Open APIs (examples)
• Summary:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/summary• Status:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/status• Suggest:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/suggest?q=treasury• Token metadata:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/token-info• In-explorer API list:
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Why this exists
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Wanted meme-energy Scrypt that still ships boring infrastructure:
public seed, honest explorer, open APIs, browser wallet — not vaporware slides.
Culture / social features (howls, @names, pack pots, city feed) sit on top of
the same L1. Infra first; toys second.
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Live status (refresh yourself)
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Numbers change — use the APIs, don’t trust a frozen ANN:
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https://howlscan.org/api/public/summary•
https://howlscan.org/api/public/status•
https://howlscan.org/#/health Snapshot when this draft was written (will be stale):
• Height: ~1879
• Difficulty: ~2.484 (smooth)
• Version: 0.6.4
• Network: early (few addresses / peers) — looking for more nodes and hashrate
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How to try in two minutes
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1) Open
https://howlscan.org Try search: a block height, “treasury”, “nodes”, “richlist”
2) Wallet:
https://howlscan.org/app3) Node / mine: clone the repo, connect to the public seed
See README +
https://github.com/happyoils710/howlcoin/blob/main/SEEDS.md ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Treasury / coinbase note (transparency)
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The public seed miner receives coinbase on the public node. That address is
labeled on Howlscan as Howl Treasury (ops / public seed miner):
HC4828dUhoiJtp6ZL1WgUexMLPNoU1nSkP
https://howlscan.org/#/public/address/HC4828dUhoiJtp6ZL1WgUexMLPNoU1nSkP Ask in-thread if you want more detail on allocation / ops.
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Wrapped HOWL (optional — do not confuse with L1)
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Native HOWL has no smart-contract address.
An optional Solana SPL wrap exists for tooling experiments only.
Always prefer genesis hash + explorer for chain identity:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/token-info ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
What I’m looking for
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• Node operators and miners willing to peer the seed
• Feedback on explorer UX, APIs, difficulty, mining docs
• Honest criticism (preferred over empty hype)
Not looking for:
• Paid “joined” spam
• Fake volume / fake listing theater
• “Wen moon” as a product plan
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Near-term focus
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• More public seeds / peer diversity
• Stability + clearer mining / node docs
• Wallet UX (nonce, balances, mobile)
• Explorer quality (search typeahead already live; keep polishing)
• Keep APIs listing-friendly (summary, token-info, status)
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Links
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Website / explorer:
https://howlscan.orgWhitepaper:
https://howlscan.org/whitepaperGitHub:
https://github.com/happyoils710/howlcoinWallet:
https://howlscan.org/appPublic nodes:
https://howlscan.org/#/nodesSeeds API:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/seedsToken info:
https://howlscan.org/api/public/token-info Awoo.
