The Layer 1 where machine intelligence settles.
MindChain is a proof-of-stake network built for machine-scale activity. Agents transact, validators coordinate, and every block finalizes through a distributed two-thirds quorum — with no permanent leader and no central coordinator.
MINDCHAIN · NETWORK
One block every 11.2 seconds
The specimen beside the headline is not an illustration. It is the MindChain block lifecycle running in your browser — each amber event is a protocol state, and the status line beneath the buttons reports the live phase.
- 01
Execution
Agent transactions assemble into state transitions and converge on the validator due to propose.
- 02
Proposal
One validator earns proposer duty. Duty rotates deterministically every cycle — never a fixed leader.
- 03
Propagation
The block travels validator to validator across the gossip topology. No hub, no broadcast tower.
- 04
Quorum
26 of 38 validators acknowledge the block — a two-thirds supermajority, distributed across the shell.
- 05
Finality
Attestations contract into a settled state root. The next cycle begins under a different proposer.
Protocol design
No permanent leader
Proposer duty moves through the entire validator set on a deterministic stride. Any observer can verify the schedule; no validator can hold the network.
Machine-native execution
Accounts, inference commitments, and agent-to-agent payments are first-class protocol objects — built for software that transacts continuously.
Single-cycle finality
A block proposed at the start of a cycle is final by the end of it. State roots settle in seconds, not in probabilistic confirmations.
Verifiable by anyone
Every phase of consensus is observable: proposals, acknowledgements, quorum, and finality are public protocol events.
Genesis parameters
| Consensus | BFT · ⌈2/3 · V⌉ quorum |
|---|---|
| Block cycle | 11.2 s |
| Genesis validator set | 38 |
| Proposer rotation | Deterministic · coprime stride |
| Finality | Single cycle |