Stealth XST is the Holy Grail of Crypto: a fast, feeless, private, and scalable blockchain protocol. The only Bitcoin descendant with native zero-fee transactions, 5-second blocks, and a dedicated private sidechain using zk-SNARKs — on mainnet since July 2014, Junaeth consensus live since May 2021.
| 01 · Heritage | Bitcoin Descendant | UTXO-based ledger with full BTC toolchain compatibility — including multisignature and data-carrying transactions. |
| 02 · Consensus | Junaeth Protocol | Queue-scheduled block signing by economically bonded StealthNodes. An economic proof-of-stake consensus improving on EOS/Ethereum models. Live since May 2021. |
| 03 · Block Interval | 5.0 seconds, deterministic | Fixed cadence. No competition, no variance. Faster than Ethereum (10–20s), 120× faster than Bitcoin. |
| 04 · Fee Model | Fee-optional, feeless by default | Proof-of-work "feework" outputs substitute for fees. Paid transactions prioritized during network pressure. |
| 05 · Throughput | 917 TPS single-core baseline | Concurrent verification scales linearly with cores. 16-core validator ≈ 150,000 TPS. Blocksize elastic. |
| 06 · Privacy Layer | stealthPRIVATE — dedicated sidechain | zk-SNARKs (Halo 2 / Orchard). Opt in at the bridge — once on the sidechain, every transaction is shielded. Sender, receiver, and amount hidden. |
| 07 · Security Model | Economic + Reputational | StealthNodes purchased via reverse auction; bid funds permanently burned. Weight = √(blocks produced − blocks missed) determines reward share and fork-resolution vote weight. |
Feeless enables microtransactions below a cent — streaming payments, per-minute billing, on-chain voting where ballots are fully recoverable.
A native primitive, not a smart-contract approximation. Custodial applications that require multisig no longer pay for every signature.
Feework outputs substitute for fees. Users freely choose between paid and free transactions. Paid transactions get priority under load.
Junaeth organizes validators into a signing queue with fixed windows. There is no competition, no variance — just schedule.
917 TPS baseline. Concurrent verification scales to ~150,000 TPS on 16-core hardware. Blocksize is an elastic parameter.
Network-time feework expiration caps abuse without compromising UX. No coin has fewer attack surfaces in the feeless category.
Opt into the stealthPRIVATE sidechain; once there, every transaction is shielded by zk-SNARK proof. No decoys, no obfuscation, no statistical arguments.
For the complete technical derivation, consensus proof, and economic model — consult the whitepaper and annotated protocol spec.
| Property | Bitcoin | Ethereum | Solana | Stealth / XST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decentralised | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ |
| Secure | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ |
| Scalable | ✗ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trilemma solved | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Most high-performance chains achieve scalability by centralising the validator set — Solana relies on a relatively small set of high-spec validators. Speed comes at the cost of decentralisation and, ultimately, security.
Junaeth's economic validator selection — where rights are purchased and rewards are purely merit-based — creates a stable, self-regulating validator set of 100 StealthNodes. No voting. No politics. No foundation deciding who validates. The economics do the work.
Bitcoin-grade security and decentralisation principles alongside 5-second blocks, 917 TPS base throughput, and a feeless transaction model — all three corners of the trilemma addressed simultaneously.
| Metric | Bitcoin | Ethereum | Stealth / XST |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block Time | 600sec | 12sec | 5.0sec |
| Avg. Transaction Fee | $0.40 | $0.20 | $0.00 |
| Throughput (TPS) | 7 | 15 | 917 – 150k |
| Consensus | PoW | PoS | Junaeth |
| Capability | BTC | ETH | Nano | XMR | ZEC | XST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feeless transactions | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Feeless multisig | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| zk-SNARK privacy | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Ring sig | ✓ | ✓ |
| Privacy by default | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | Opt-in | Sidechain |
| Sub-5s finality | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| UTXO accounting | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sidechain support | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Spam-resistant feeless | n/a | n/a | Partial | n/a | n/a | ✓ |
Junaeth organises every StealthNode into a signing queue with a fixed 5-second window per slot. Every node gets exactly one slot per round — the ordering within the round is pseudorandom, not reputation-weighted. A block signs every 5 seconds, forever.
The network currently consists of 100 StealthNodes. The next node cannot sign until the current window closes. There is no PoW race, no fee auction, no MEV.
The result is a blockchain that ticks like a metronome, not like a slot machine.
StealthNodes are purchased from the blockchain by irreversibly burning XST. The XST spent on a bid is permanently destroyed — removed from the money supply, never recycled to a foundation, validator, or treasury.
Pricing uses a reverse auction. Instances are offered one at a time, each more expensive than the previous. Bids are transparent and binding — each valid bid irreversibly claims one StealthNode. Buying stops when the next bid is too expensive to justify; that last price estimates market equilibrium.
Two forces balance the auction: each purchase shrinks the XST supply, and each new validator dilutes the share of a fixed reward pool. The set naturally stabilises — no governance, no votes, no cabal.
Every StealthNode gets one slot per round — all 100 sign equally in rotation. Rewards, however, are not equal. The fixed reward pool is split among nodes by weight, where weight equals the square root of (blocks produced minus blocks missed).
The square root shape is deliberate. New nodes can partially catch up to long-running ones at equivalent performance, but they can never fully overtake a node that has been well-performing for years. A temporary performance drop is permanent in its effect: the missed block is gone, and it reduces the weight multiplier on every block earned thereafter.
Weight also determines consensus influence. When a StealthNode produces a block, it casts a weighted vote for that chain. The chain with the highest cumulative vote weight wins fork resolution.
A globally synchronised clock across a heterogeneous network is impossible — latencies are unpredictable, and polling other nodes for "what time is it" is itself subject to those latencies. Junaeth sidesteps the problem entirely.
Time is kept by the blocks themselves. Each block carries a height exactly one greater than its predecessor — block heights are the ticks of Junaeth's network clock. An isolated validator keeps producing blocks regardless; it doesn't need to know whether it's isolated or the rest of the network is.
Fork resolution uses focal point game theory: a node on a minority branch eventually reorganises to the winning chain, not because of timestamps, but because building on a chain no one else is building on costs it reward weight on the winning chain and accumulates missed blocks on the losing one. Economics resolves what timestamps can't.
Junaeth prices validator entry through a reverse auction, funds rewards from a fixed pool, and weights earnings by square-root of net blocks produced. Validation rights are purchased, not granted.
Validators are not elected, voted in, or granted. They are purchased. StealthNodes are offered one at a time, each more expensive than the previous. Bids are transparent and binding — each valid bid irreversibly claims one node. The auction stops when the next bid becomes too expensive to justify; that last price estimates market equilibrium.
XST spent on a StealthNode purchase is not collected by a foundation, a validator, or a treasury. It is permanently eliminated from the money supply — never recycled. Every new validator reduces total XST supply at the moment of purchase.
All StealthNodes share a fixed reward pool that does not grow with the validator count. Adding more validators shrinks each share proportionally. This is why the validator set naturally stabilises rather than expanding indefinitely — new StealthNodes eventually become too expensive to justify buying.
A StealthNode's weight equals the square root of (blocks produced minus blocks missed). Weight determines both reward share and consensus vote weight during fork resolution. The square-root shape lets new nodes partially catch up at equivalent performance, but prevents them from ever fully overtaking long-running well-performing nodes. A temporary performance drop reduces every future block earned.
Users transact feelessly by attaching a feework proof — a memory-hard Argon2d computation bound to the specific transaction and a recent block height. Feework expires after 24 blocks (two minutes), which caps spam accumulation. Paid transactions receive processing priority under burst load, making the protocol fee-optional rather than fee-free.
XST on stealthCORE is locked in a 2-of-3 multisig P2SH address; an equivalent amount in XSS is minted on stealthPRIVATE as a shielded note. The deposit record stores the locking txid, amount, and staker keys — but never stores the sender address or receiver shielded address. The bridge is opt-in; it is also the only way onto the private chain.
Inside stealthPRIVATE, funds exist as encrypted notes. Every transfer is shielded-to-shielded using Halo 2 zk-SNARK proofs. Sender, receiver, and amount are hidden at every step. No rich list, no transaction explorer, no metadata leak — the sidechain is pool-based with no per-user linkage between deposits and withdrawals.
Withdrawal destinations are a parameter you specify. Any XST address, any amount up to an available deposit UTXO — with zero enforced linkage between who deposited and who withdrew. stealthCORE can be hosted independently of the sidechain, so exchanges and custodians can run stealthCORE alone without ever touching shielded transaction data.
Dedicated blockchain — a Bitcoin descendant with novel feework and multisig primitives. Open source from day one.
Queue-based StealthNode validators, deterministic 5-second blocks, reverse-auction validator pricing, square-root weight rewards. The current live consensus.
UTXO Bitcoin Ledger (transaction history) fused with Registry Ledger (block rewards, stealth addressing). Feeless transfers, feework spam resistance, and stealthPRIVATE shielded sidechain are all in production today.
Extending the Registry Ledger technology into a stateful Account Ledger. Enables account-based balance tracking alongside the existing UTXO model — laying the groundwork for smart contract state.
A fourth ledger — programmable, stateful, and extensible. Active research on whether contract execution can be made feeless via a PoW mechanism (caller burns compute rather than paying fees). Hybrid fee model is the likely fallback.
All four ledgers operational simultaneously: UTXO for transfer finality, Registry for rewards, Account for state, Smart Contracts for programmable logic. AI-native payments, DeFi primitives, programmable micropayments — feeless at the transfer layer.