[ANN] Pandora testnet LIVE: blocks by lottery, every message is a token transfer

Pandora public testnet is live (until about 15 November 2026)

Website + wallet: https://bestpandora.org
X: @BlueEnergyAus

Pandora is a new blockchain built from scratch. It keeps what works in Bitcoin (a fixed supply, a shared record nobody can change alone) and replaces the parts that made mining expensive, power-hungry and concentrated.

What is new in Pandora

Mining by lottery, not by race.
Each block has a draw of 8 numbers (1-18). Miners pick 8 numbers and back them with a stake; the best matches win the block reward. There is no puzzle to solve, so faster machines give no advantage: no special mining hardware, no arms race, and an ordinary computer or rented server is enough.
Low energy by design.
A node only checks signatures and records. Nothing runs flat out guessing numbers, so the power bill of a miner is that of a normal computer.
The lockout: no concentration of mining power.
A miner who wins sits out for a while. It earns its way back step by step, and a larger stake earns those steps faster than a tiny one. Rewards spread across many miners instead of piling up with a few.
Committee consensus, final in one block.
The draw also chooses a committee of 7 miners, which produces each new block by consensus (5 of 7 signatures needed). Every node still checks every block itself. A block is final at once, about 2.7 s on this testnet, and is never reversed.
A token system with no precision loss.
Dora divides into 2,205 decimal places, and each place has its own named token (for example dora:pah = 10^-17 Dora, pey:pil = 10^-62 Dora), 67,906 tokens in all. Every amount is a whole number of its token's unit: no floating point and no rounding anywhere, so not one unit is ever lost. Tokens convert into each other by exact contracts that every miner checks.
Costs stay low even if Dora becomes very valuable.
Messages and fees are paid in tokens far below one Dora. Even at a million dollars per Dora, a message would cost a vanishingly small fraction of a cent.
Every message is a token transfer.
Text is written in MOB, Pandora's own number code, and the numbers are the amount sent. A message is not stored next to a payment, it is the payment: signed, paid for and checked like any transfer.
A fixed supply, checked every block.
21,000,000 Dora, for ever. Every block re-checks that not one unit was created or lost; the check is shown live on the home page.
Built with quantum computers in mind.
Pandora can keep a wallet's public key hidden on the chain until the owner comes forward, so there is nothing for a future quantum computer to attack. The Foundation's allocation already works this way; extending it to every wallet is planned.
Jackpots over 40 years.
Besides block rewards, matching 5 to 8 numbers wins jackpots (J5-J8), paid from pools released over 40 years.

Allocation

Of the 21,000,000 Dora, 2,100,000 (10%) belong to the Pandora Foundation from the start; the other 18,900,000 (90%) are paid to miners as block rewards and jackpots over 40 years.
On this testnet the Foundation lends the stakes (1-8 Dora) and takes a share of rewards won with them. On mainnet, miners will stake their own Dora.

This testnet

27 miners on servers in Australia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Test tokens only, with no value. They cannot be bought, sold or cashed out, ever. Nothing to buy, no sign-up, no email, no wallet to connect.
Runs until about block 200,000 (around 15 November 2026), then stops. It may be reset.

How to take part (2 minutes)

Open My wallet: the key is made in your browser and never leaves it. Copy your backup code.
Join: one click, free test pey:pil to pay for messages.
Post a message (up to 280 characters): it lands in a block within seconds.
Play the lottery: borrow a 1-8 Dora test stake, pick 8 numbers, watch the draws.
Optional: link your X account.

(On this testnet, visitors play from the website without running a node. Running your own miner is not open yet.)

Status, honestly

The code is not open source yet; it will be released later.
No outside security review yet.
This run is a public test of the network, the website and the wallet. Please try to break it and post what you find here.

Questions welcome. I will answer in this thread.