COLOPHON (CLPH)
Every block carries its printer's mark.
What is Colophon?In the old printing shops, the last page of a book carried a small closing
note: the colophon. It named the printer, the date and the place, so that
nobody could pretend the work had come from elsewhere. Colophon is a
proof-of-work cryptocurrency built on the same habit.
Every block ends with a mark that anyone can read — who mined it, when, and
under which rules. The chain is the print run, and nothing is printed off the
record. The start is even: no coins were struck before the network, and none
are set aside for anyone. The first CLPH obeys the same rule as the last, and
the whole supply is written into the chain itself, fixed by block number.
Why Colophon?- GPU-friendly. KawPow is ASIC-resistant and leans on graphics-memory
bandwidth, so ordinary NVIDIA and AMD cards can take part.
- Proven base. Proof-of-Work with per-block difficulty retargeting —
the same mechanism that has kept networks honest for years.
- Capped, predictable supply. The emission halves on a fixed schedule
and settles toward 28,210,000 CLPH. The schedule is a function of block
height, not anyone's decision.
- Fair from the first block. No premine and no founder
allocation. Nobody gets a head start.
- Open source. The wallet and this site are public on GitHub under
the MIT license.
Wallets and downloads- Windows wallet v0.1.0 — released, SHA-256 published with the release.
- Linux wallet — in progress.
- Every archive carries a published checksum — compare it before running.
Website:
https://colophon-core.github.io/colophon/Downloads:
https://github.com/colophon-core/colophon-wallet/releases/download/v0.1.0/colophon-wallet-windows-0.1.0.zipExplorer:
https://colophon-core.github.io/colophon/explorer/Source:
https://github.com/colophon-core/colophonSpecificationsTicker CLPH
Algorithm KawPow (ASIC-resistant GPU mining)
Consensus Proof-of-Work
Block time 115 seconds
Block emission 28 CLPH
Halving every 520,000 blocks (about 1.90 years)
Maximum supply 28,210,000 CLPH
Premine 0
Block explorer https://colophon-core.github.io/colophon/explorer/
License MIT
The supply is issued in editions, and each new edition is half the size of
the one before it:
Block range Emission Minted
0 - 519,999 28 CLPH 14,560,000 CLPH
520,000 - 1,039,999 14 CLPH 7,280,000 CLPH
1,040,000 - 1,559,999 7 CLPH 3,640,000 CLPH
1,560,000 - 2,079,999 3.5 CLPH 1,820,000 CLPH
2,080,000 - 2,599,999 1.75 CLPH 910,000 CLPH
Emission keeps halving beyond edition 5 and settles toward 28,210,000 CLPH
without ever passing it.
How to mineInstall a KawPow-capable miner (T-Rex, GMiner, TeamRedMiner or lolMiner),
create an address in the wallet, and point the miner at a pool with your
address as the worker name:
t-rex -a kawpow -o stratum+tcp://POOL_HOST:PORT -u YOUR_CLPH_ADDRESS.worker -p x
Pools that list CLPH will publish their own endpoints. Blocks, difficulty
and the emission schedule are visible on the block explorer.
WhitepaperA short technical description of the chain (consensus, parameters, emission
schedule, fairness and verifiability) is published in the repository:
https://github.com/colophon-core/colophon/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.mdRoadmap- Done: Windows wallet v0.1.0, website, block explorer page, GitHub
repositories.
- In progress: Linux wallet build.
- Planned: live network data on the explorer, public pool list,
macOS wallet.
Everything in this thread is published before it exists on the network —
nothing is advertised ahead of a release.
Common questionsWere any coins struck before the network began?No. The premine is zero: nothing existed before block one, and every unit
comes from the published schedule.
Why KawPow?KawPow leans on graphics-memory bandwidth. Ordinary GPUs work; purpose-built
ASICs gain no real edge.
How do I check the supply?Compare the numbers above with the block explorer. The full schedule is also
in the whitepaper; the chain and the source are the final word.
Colophon is experimental open-source software. Verify every download against
its published checksum before running it.
