[ANN] E46 / Ciphers and Chains — First Local Testnet Payment Mined

E46 / Ciphers and Chains

Development update · October 10, 2026 · Tessera46 & Mik3XC as Member(s)

E46 has reached its first ordinary payment milestone: 1.00000000 E46 sent, validated, and mined in block 268 on the local development testnet. Block 269 followed, giving that payment two confirmations at the time of this update.

I’m building Ciphers and Chains around Refracting Light v3, with a working C++ local node, wallet tooling, and a journal that explains the formulas through diagrams, metaphors, and interactive traces.

Source code is not being released with this announcement. Nor are binary's or Wallet Releases This update opens the journal for reading and discussion. The node currently runs on a single machine with no P2P networking; public network participation is not available yet.

Start with the journal

Read the E46 research journal

The journal walks through four connected areas:

Refracting Light v3: four coupled lanes, a 512-bit internal state, and a 128-bit folded digest. The walkthrough explains coordinate mixing, carry feedback, velocity updates, and the fold kernel.
QTL: the project's time-lock and wallet-protection work, including its use of Argon2 and the separate block-depth commitment/reveal mechanism.
RedTail-X: polynomial arithmetic, data/parity shards, and the cardboard-box metaphor for explaining reconstruction. The TCP transport section is a proposal open for discussion.
SHAKE256, KMAC256, and SLH-DSA: the standard primitives used alongside the experimental construction, with their external authorship credited.

The Python differential visualizer lets readers inspect how changed message bits propagate through the lanes. Its results describe the tested inputs; they are not a quantum Grover implementation or a proof of collision resistance.

The first payment

Network: Local E46 development testnet
Containing block: 268
Payment: 1.00000000 E46
Change: 34.09520485 E46
Fee: 0.00001000 E46
Transaction structure: 1 input, 2 outputs, 1 witness
Signature: SLH-DSA-SHAKE-128s; 7,856 bytes
Full serialized transaction: 8,030 bytes

Block ID

Code:

4e6bd53958345c17ae9a3f338767e69b7da8a9c8ac361b7ba591eb26506958de

Transaction ID

Code:

df6fe5245b8326b0486b1727481604414dc8928e3300c7df78629cecdb18d8ab

Witness transaction ID

Code:

52d4cfbac4f12d9b50b6900ecde65a53e5d083239769db0ccda9ac240a7d792f

These identifiers record the local milestone. Independent reproduction will require the relevant code and chain data when released.

What works locally today

Mining and validating blocks, recording them on disk, and rebuilding chain state on restart.
Creating and signing wallet transactions, validating spends, and displaying balances.
Preserving accepted transactions across CLI restarts, then including them in a mined block.
Inspecting actual blocks through a read-only local explorer, including full transaction identifiers, decoded fields, signature hashes, and expandable serialized bytes.
Enforcing the exact block-268 ID as an explicit early testnet checkpoint in C++. This pins the chosen history; it is a developer-selected trust anchor, not additional proof of work.

E46 uses eight decimal places: 100,000,000 base units equal 1 E46. Mining rewards have a 100-block maturity rule. Ordinary payment and change outputs do not inherit that mining-reward delay.

Explore the visual examples

The public explorers display sample JSON. They are interface demonstrations and do not independently verify the local payment above. The local explorer is separately connected to the real development node.

The sphere views and space-travel metaphors are teaching devices. NASA object references provide astronomical context; they do not determine block production or consensus.

What comes next

Continued Testnet & Dedicated Nodes
First 8-Bit RAD Collision
Continued Grover Tail Collision Tests - All Null or Zer0 As of Now
Continued journal updates and a separately announced source-release plan when ready. No release date is set in this post. No Exchanges.

The journal’s mnemonic extensions, transport proposals, and visual concepts have their own development status. A proposal appearing on the site does not mean it is implemented in the node.

Join the discussion

I’d like readers to challenge the math, point out unclear explanations, and suggest concrete experiments. Questions about the fold, P/Q shards, time-lock assumptions, recovery formats, or the explorer are welcome.

Start with the journal and bring a specific formula, observation, or counterexample into the discussion here.

GOLD is the project's name for its cryptographic hashing roots and reference test vectors. Requests for testing material can be sent to Tessera46; requesting material is not a source release.

Status: experimental research and local testnet development. The recorded milestone demonstrates an executed payment path, not an independent security audit or a production-readiness claim.

— Mik3XC & Tessera46

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