[ANN][PoW] SHEAR (SHE) — She is private | ShearHash CPU

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Private by default. CPU work. Continuity-settled. One hash is one transaction.

ShearHash-v2 · RandomX light · 1 SHE pot a block · 0.00000000001 SHE per valid hash

TESTNET IS LIVE — MAINNET OPENS 9pm UK TIME, 11 SEPTEMBER 2026

The public pool, explorer, mempool, miner, node and wallet below are shear-testnet-v2. Mainnet shear-v1 is a later genesis of the same mint law. It is not open. There is no claim window yet. Anyone telling you to migrate now is lying.

This post replaces the earlier first-look copy. What follows is the project as it stands on 31 August 2026.

What Shear is

A clean Nakamoto chain: header proof of work, P2P gossip, most-work wins. Germany is one equal node with a public stratum, not a master book. If that node is down, the heaviest valid tip elsewhere continues.

The mint you already know is kept. The settlement is new.

1 SHE in every valid block (the pot).
0.00000000001 SHE for every valid hash, paid to the miner who produced it.
1 GNFP = 1 SHE for holders, claimed on mainnet through The Join. Not a sale. Not a bridge you send coins into.

Live doors (testnet)

SITE https://shear.digital
POOL https://pool.shear.digital
EXPLORER https://explorer.shear.digital
MEMPOOL https://mempool.shear.digital
STRATUM pool.shear.digital:1111
P2P :30303
NETWORK shear-testnet-v2
ALGO ShearHash-v2
COIN SHE
WALLET 0.8 https://github.com/rgsneddon/shear-testnet/releases/tag/0.8
MINER ShearK-Miner 1.4 https://github.com/rgsneddon/ShearK/releases/tag/1.4
NODE https://github.com/rgsneddon/shear-testnet/tree/main/node
DISCORD https://discord.gg/AzVtMnSxCe
TELEGRAM https://t.me/shearprivacy
X https://x.com/shearprivacy

No other domain, telegram, or “support desk” is authorised to take a seed, a password, a shewall.bin, or a join1. key.

Emission — three paths, they do not substitute

This is consensus. Testnet already runs it. Mainnet uses the same constants on a separate genesis.

1. Block pot — 1 SHE

Every valid block mints exactly 1 SHE in the coinbase. Solo: the finder. Pool: split by proven work that round, minus 1% of this pot for development on the public pool. Votes cannot move it.

2. Per-hash bonus — 0.00000000001 SHE × your hashes

Each accepted hash in the round mints that unit to the miner who produced it. Alice 4 000 hashes and Bob 1 000 hashes → Alice 4 000 units, Bob 1 000 units, in the same coinbase. The finder does not scoop anyone else’s bonus. Hash bonuses are not fee’d.

Public pages round the dust; the extra unit is still sealed. A Vortex vote (The Reserve, every 400 days) may raise this bonus by one unit, lower it by one unit, or leave it. Nothing else is on the ballot.

Hash-bonus counts come from a lag-1 snapshot: this round’s hashes are paid on the next coinbase, because the hashed header cannot change after hashing starts.

3. The Reserve — the only dapp that may mint extra SHE

A Vortex programme (shear-reserve-v1), executed as pinned Solidity bytecode inside the node. Not a third coinbase line.

Lock at least π SHE (3.141592653589793…) into your own portal. That unlocks one vote for the current 400-day epoch.
The first qualifying deposit starts the epoch. There is no operator start gun.
Staked principal accrues interest at the variable rate observed by The Reserve oracle on every node. Idle SHE earns none.
Inside the last 99 days, new deposits still lock and can vote, but they sit idle: no interest.
After 400 days, principal returns to Continuum. Interest is minted only on what was staked before the cutoff.
A bad oracle reading cannot reorg blocks or steal the pot.

Any other Vortex dapp cannot print SHE. If a third party wants to pay rewards, they top up a vault with coin already in circulation.

ShearHash-v2

The live book is RandomX in light mode: 128 MiB cache, salt ShearHash-v2/rx, key rebound each block from sealed header fields (prev, continuity, merkle, bits). The 2 GiB dataset is not required. JIT is allowed for mining only if it matches the light interpreter on the selftest vector.

Wire name stays ShearHash. Personalisation is ShearHash-v2. The old 8-round SHA-256 hasher (shear-testnet-v1 / Shear-Miner 1.1 and below) mints nothing on this book.

Official binary: ShearK-Miner 1.4. One share in flight; a pool busy is retried, not counted as a reject. A timestamp restamp does not rebuild the RandomX key.

How the chain is put together

Header — 128 bytes, little-endian

0 4 version u32 = 1
4 32 prev_block_hash
36 32 merkle_root coinbase first
68 32 continuity_root H(rootA ∥ rootB)
100 8 timestamp Unix ms
108 4 bits Resistance
112 8 nonce
120 8 base_fee Flow levy base

PoW: ShearHash-v2(header) ≤ target(bits).

One hash = one transaction, without one JSON object per hash

Each valid hash is still a discrete unit of mint. The header commits a continuity root of the round’s samples. Samples are collated per hasher — one A-leaf (dest20 + count) per miner per round. Opt-in extras sit on tree B. After 1000 confirmations the sample bodies may be pruned. The header, merkle root, coinbase outputs, and every user transfer stay sealed. The explorer reconstructs history from those sealed rows.

That is continuity-settled Chronoflux on a chain: Continuum (spendable is conserved), Flow (this round’s hashes and sends), Resistance (confirmations), Closure (the block that seals them).

What every full node checks

Version recognised; prev hash matches; timestamp after MTP of 11, not more than 2 hours future.
bits equals ASERT for this height (90 s, floor 14, ceiling 256).
Header PoW meets target under ShearHash-v2 light.
Merkle root matches ordered txs. Continuity root matches ordered A and B leaves.
Coinbase first: exactly 1 SHE pot plus exactly 0.00000000001 SHE × each hasher’s lag-1 hashes.
Other txs: signatures, no double-spend, amounts balance. Rest-frame shear1 is refused as a dest.
Extra mint only from shear-reserve-v1, or a one-shot Join genesis into the vault.
Native Flow sends and EVM SHE value transfers may land in the same block. A random vortice still cannot mint.

Most-work: 2^256 / (target + 1). Heaviest valid chain wins. Equal work keeps first-seen. Full reorgs allowed. No operator finality window. Consensus spendable is 6 confirmations.

Privacy

Offer she1 — a silent payment code. Share this. It never appears on chain.
On chain: revolving ssa1 dests. Miner login is she1 or ssa1. A she1 login pays the matching ssa1. The she1 string is not written in vout or samples.
Never share rest-frame shear1. It is not a login, not a dest, and verifyBlock rejects it.
Public explorer: tx id, amount, height, memo yes/no. Identities are rotating tags. No wallets, IPs, or logins.
Optional Flow memo: ciphertext on the wire. Public page shows yes/no. Plaintext only in the sender and recipient wallets.

Flow levy

User sends, EVM value moves, pool pull-withdraws, and vortice registers pay a levy. Coinbase pot and hash bonuses do not.

The quote is max(100 units, 2 bps of the amount), then a surge from mempool depth (full surge at a few kilobytes waiting). Half of the levy goes to the block finder, half to The Reserve fee bank. The wallet shows the quote before you send.

Pool withdrawals are EIP-712 (PoolWithdraw, chainId 2701). she1 is never in the mined body.

Pool — pool.shear.digital:1111

A stratum in front of a local validating node. Mint happens only when that node accepts a header that meets Resistance.

Every job is a full 128-byte header template: version, prev, merkle, continuity, timestamp, bits, zeroed nonce, base_fee, plus jobId, height, shareBits, blockBits, and 256 hex of the header. If any of those is missing, the job is not served. The pool does not invent roots. A found block is that same header with the winning nonce, plus the body the node already bound to the template.

Command builder on the page: paste a she1, set threads, copy the line.
Fee: 1% of the 1 SHE pot. Hash bonuses paid in full to each hasher.
Official miner: one login. No dual-login miner fee.
CPU inventory is per TCP session, folded on the worker row. Honesty is against merged proven H/s, not the last banner.
Vardiff never exceeds current block bits. There is no 32-bit farm lid.
A still-connected hasher stays listed when a block is found.

Other pool operators and solo miners are invited. Run a node, point ShearK at it, announce it.

How to mine — ShearK-Miner 1.4

Official C miner. Hashes the 128-byte ShearHash-v2 header. Light mode only.

--user is she1… or ssa1… plus a worker name. Rest-frame shear1 is refused.

Code:

ShearK-Miner --pool pool.shear.digital:1111 --user she1YOURID.worker --threads 4

--selftest must print digest 64d41fa97f5ebea8a7e2a2625b1824467ce9d081bf29b0b2ae0a7fe617599895 and must not start hashing. A bad address exits before any worker wakes up.

macOS, Windows, and Linux: github.com/rgsneddon/ShearK/releases/tag/1.4

Windows: this exe is not Authenticode-signed. SmartScreen or Defender may warn. More info → Run anyway, or Properties → Unblock.

Do not recut Shear-Miner 1.1 / 1.0 against this book.

Wallet — Shear 0.8

Testnet. Does not mine. Offer she1. Chain dests are ssa1.

Continuum ∇·J = 0 spendable SHE + this round’s pending
Flow J^μ send / receive. she1. optional memo. levy quoted
Resistance η transactional print of a confirmed tx
Vortex Ω^{μν} The Reserve, The Join, third-party vortice
Shearview S_{μν} your personal explorer
Closure G_{μν} password and backup. encrypts shewall.bin

Backup is one file, shewall.bin, sealed with AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2. Copy it. Restore it with the same password. If the password is lost, the wallet cannot be opened. Fingerprint or face unlock, where offered, works only on that device.

Pending hashes this open round sit in pending. Not spendable, not an explorer row yet. When a block is found they move into spendable with any pot share. Incoming mempool pays stay pending until the next sealed block.

macOS: open the notarized .dmg, drag Shear onto Applications, eject, launch from Applications. Do not run from the open disk image. Windows / Linux: unzip and open. Android: install the APK.

github.com/rgsneddon/shear-testnet/releases/tag/0.8

Node

Validating daemon. P2P :30303. Magic shear-testnet-v2. Data in ~/.shear/testnet. Source: github.com/rgsneddon/shear-testnet/tree/main/node.

Germany is a well-known seed, not a required master. A heavier valid chain is adopted. A mutated or foreign book is rejected. Rest-frame dests are rejected.

Code:

node node/src/node.js

Vortex

A drawer of programmes in the wallet. Each programme is a vortice.

Pinned

The Reserve — stake, vote, oracle interest. Only extra minter after genesis. Runs pinned Reserve.sol bytecode.
The Join — prior-ledger snapshot claims. One genesis mint into the vault, then pay or burn. Nothing to claim on today’s testnet.

Third-party vortice

You host the dapp. The node mints a vort1. deploy key that names your origin and pins a hash of the exact bytes you serve. Holders paste that key in Vortex. The wallet fetches the origin, checks the pin, and deploys locally. There is no catalog. No key, no dapp.

You must not print SHE. You must not ask for a Shear password, a shewall.bin, or a join1. key. Keep serving the pinned bytes; a new body needs a new key.

Mempool — logarithmic lattice

mempool.shear.digital draws pending and sealed transactions as a spiral from the tip. Radius is ln(1 + generation). Generation 0 is the open mempool. Gold nodes are ssa1 sends, B-spends, and coinbase. Cyan nodes are collated hash rows. Recoverability is highest at the tip and falls with depth. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.

GNFP → SHEAR (The Join)

When mainnet genesis is sealed — not before — a snapshot of GNFP spendable balances is taken from that book. Unconfirmed round credit and mempool coins are not in it. The Join vault is funded once, in that exact size. After that it only pays claims or burns.

Rate: one GNFP → one SHE.

You do not use the twelve-word GNFP backup for this. The Join never asks for it. Open the GNFP wallet you already use, the same way you already unlock it.

Wait for the published mainnet genesis time, snapshot root, and window close. We will post them here and on shear.digital.
Copy the join1. migration key for this address. That key is a bearer cheque for your snapshot line. Anyone who pastes it can collect. Treat it as cash.
In the Shear wallet: Vortex → The Join. Paste the key. Credit lands on your Continuum dest (ssa1), not on a rest-frame shear1.
Each snapshot line can be claimed once. You have ninety-nine days from genesis.

After ninety-nine days, whatever still sits in the vault is burned. It is not paid to miners and not paid to The Reserve. Later keys are refused.

Nothing in this notice asks you to send GNFP or SHE to an operator, a bridge, or a third-party vault. The Shear wallet will never ask for your GNFP twelve words. The GNFP wallet will never ask for your Shear password.

Until genesis, snapshot root, and window close are published on this thread, treat any “claim now” message as false.

How money moves, in one pass

You hash a real 128-byte header with ShearK-Miner.
Each accepted hash is 0.00000000001 SHE on your path for this round. Pending, not spendable.
Someone finds a block. Coinbase mints 1 SHE (split by proven work that round) plus each hasher’s own bonus from the previous round’s snapshot.
Spendable lands on your ssa1 after 6 confirmations. Continuum shows it. Shearview lists it. Public explorer shows amount and a tag, not your she1.
You send on Flow to someone else’s she1. The wallet quotes the levy. Optional memo. Confirms in a later block.
If you lock π SHE in The Reserve, you vote and may earn oracle interest over 400 days. That interest is the only extra mint.
On mainnet genesis, GNFP holders claim 1:1 through The Join within 99 days, or the leftover burns.

What you should do now

Keep mining and holding GNFP if you want the snapshot. Spendable at genesis is what counts.
Install Shear wallet 0.8 from the official tag, not from an unknown build.
Mine this testnet with ShearK-Miner 1.4: ShearK-Miner --pool pool.shear.digital:1111 --user she1YOURID.worker --threads 4
Do not send foreign coins to a she1 / ssa1 and expect them to appear.
Wait for this thread to publish genesis height, snapshot root, and the close of the ninety-nine day window before you copy a Join key.

Read this last

Testnet coins are testnet coins. Mine and hold as if they could vanish. This is new software. It is not advice.

Mainnet, if we keep the date: 9pm UK time, 11 September 2026.

she is private. Point ShearK at pool.shear.digital:1111. Testnet until 11 September.

Code:

ShearK-Miner --pool pool.shear.digital:1111 --user she1YOURID.worker --threads 4