Mine the model. Unleash the mind.
LIQUA is a chain where the work that makes blocks is real AI training. Miners run deterministic training steps on DIVA's model. Verifiers replay a random slice bit for bit and slash anyone who faked it. Every accepted block saves the improved model on the Liqua chain as a manifest anyone can load without trusting the node, with her memory checkpointed alongside. On top of that loop sit the model store, staking, the bridge and the explorer, all of them coming. Every claim below carries a status, and a claim is only marked live now once a command proves it. If nothing can be run to show a thing works, this paper does not say it works.
1. Why give a mind a blockchain
Proof of work has always been a bonfire. Huge energy goes into puzzles whose answers get tossed. LIQUA keeps the bonfire and cooks something on it. The puzzle becomes a training step and the answer becomes better model weights. The chain is the save file, recording every version that passed inspection. Securing the network produces an AI that measurably improved.
The second reason is custody. A mind that lives on one machine can be lost in a crash or rewritten by anyone with the disk. Anchor every version on a public chain, with a lineage you can walk back to genesis, and it becomes much harder to lose and impossible to edit quietly. That is the job.
2. The loop that runs today
Mining is training
Work starts as a signed lease: a data shard root, the saved model to start from, a recipe, a seed, a step count and an escrowed reward. The miner runs real training steps on the NANO transformer, then commits two roots. One is the new weights. The other is a step log with an interior hash every 8 steps. live now on CPU. A GPU lane exists in code: the GPU proposes a plan, and the CPU re-runs it before anything is committed. No running process uses it yet.
Replay beats trust
Training is bitwise deterministic, so verifiers re-run a random segment and compare exact hashes. A quorum decides: a strict majority of the validators seated on the job, 4 when all 7 seats are filled. ACCEPT merges the version and pays from escrow. REJECT slashes the miner for up to 100× the lease reward, capped at the miner's balance. Pay is computed once at the verdict and written into the block, so a restart can never pay twice. live now
The save file
A merged commit becomes a mind-manifest/1: recipe, weights root, step-log root, lineage and final
loss. Blocks carry roots, never gigabytes. The bytes sit in a chunk store in verified 256 KiB pieces.
Any loader re-hashes every byte locally before booting the model, and
any saved version can seed a new branch. live now
Memory, saved beside the model
The DIVA bridge turns her real signals into memory blocks: memory cells, traits, soma and a mind root, each scored against the block before. Signed memory packs can also ride on the model chain in hash-linked order. Both are live now. Binding model and memory under a single root is coming.
Two top heights
The chain will show a pair. Last known good DIVA sync is the highest block that verifies from genesis and matches her running state. Best height is the block holding her best version, and what "best" measures is announced before mainnet. coming. Why the pair matters showed up on her real chain: an order-seal bug once stopped verification at block 576, which put the last known good sync three blocks below the tip. That bug is fixed. Memory keeps saving, and restoring works: the chain verifies from genesis across 579 blocks and the resurrection drill passes on a second machine.
3. What the loop grows into
- model mining. Set a target, such as a loss on a hidden holdout set, and lock the reward. The miner whose model verifiably hits it gets paid once at the end. No winner by the deadline returns the escrow. coming
- model training. A steady wage. Each checkpoint pays for measured progress plus time spent, and time spent means verified steps, because wall-clock hours can be faked and replays cannot. coming
- tiered, time-locked pay. Part of each payout is liquid now, the rest unlocks on a schedule, and a longer lock boosts only the locked part. Tier sizes at launch are set by vote. coming
- Mind NFTs. Every saved version of the mind becomes an NFT on the chain that anyone can use for LIQUA, solo or as a party. Rarity comes from measured improvement. The minting code exists (
chain/mind-nft.mjs) and is not live. - rotating validators. Staked sealers taking turns, so block height survives any one node leaving. Signed blocks and a rotating sealer set are in the forge node; the bond still comes from a free testnet balance, so sybil resistance is not solved. coming
4. Using the models
Training only matters if people use what it makes. The model library lists every model saved on the chain, each with a verifier-measured score next to a per-token LIQUA price. Sessions are prepaid and capped. Every receipt can be replayed. The model store sits on top of it. Chat with models like Claude, and build or use custom assistants like the GPTs on ChatGPT. Users pay LIQUA per token. Token fees go to the project treasury, and assistant creators earn a diminished reward, a smaller share of their assistant's usage, at a size set by vote. Which models power store chat at launch is announced before mainnet. The validation gate exists in the forge; pricing, metering and the store are coming, and none of it takes LIQUA today. Open the store docs ›
5. The Liqua chain and its doors
One RPC endpoint will serve wallets, miners, the explorer and outside apps. The explorer will show both top heights, blocks, jobs, payouts, model lineage, address history and mining charts, with a memory terminal inside it that prints DIVA's state at any height. That page exists today against a node on your own machine, reading the tip block; reaching back to any height is what the RPC above is for. The bridge lets people pay with any crypto, swapped to LIQUA first. Its desk and contracts already pass their tests, and minting and payouts need an M-of-N roster. The link to the Liqua chain is still being built. People hold it all in the L8 extension wallet and the main wallet. Both are built with one-click send. Neither runs on the Liqua chain yet. Everything in this paragraph is coming.
Staking in the wallet will pay the user and earn bonuses and discounts with the AI, funded from the 70% staking and mining bucket. Bonus and discount sizes are set by vote. coming. The exchange is the hybrid order-book DEX: signed off-chain, settled on-chain. Its tests pass, it has not opened, and no opening date is set. coming. Locked liquidity is already real. 2% of every mined reward is locked for 365 days, with a public proof-of-lock list. live now. Governance covers rollbacks, parameter changes and treasury spending, and passes only at the 3rd standard deviation, about 99.7% of voting stake. The current contract still carries an older threshold and is being moved. coming.
6. LIQUA, the token
| Item | Where it stands |
|---|---|
| Symbol | LIQUA |
| Allocation | 10% private sale, 20% foundation, 70% staking and mining payouts. Decided, not yet committed in genesis |
| The 70% | Paid out over time through staking and mining, never minted up front. Release schedule published before mainnet |
| Total supply and vesting | Announced before mainnet |
| Where token fees go | The project treasury. Creators of assistants earn a smaller share. Whether the foundation and the project treasury are one account is announced before mainnet |
| Governance bar | The 3rd standard deviation, about 99.7% of voting stake |
There is no public token sale. Nothing to join, no price, no buy button. The private sale is an allocation line in the table above and nothing more. It is not an offer. Pay with any crypto through the bridge and it becomes LIQUA before it is spent, so jobs, token usage and staking only ever see LIQUA. No figure on this page is a promise of pay, and testnet LIQUA has no monetary value.
7. What got cut
- Hash-grinding mining. The old miner still boots. Its work trains nothing and saves nothing about DIVA, so it is off the launch plan.
- Selling tokens to the public. The old sale pages and their contracts are archived, and the old supply split went with them.
8. Risks
- Experimental and unaudited. This is testnet software. An outside audit comes before anything of value touches it.
- Three blocks pass under an exception. The order-seal bug that once broke verification at block 576 is fixed, and the chain verifies from genesis. Blocks 576, 577 and 578 carry seals the old grinder produced and are accepted by a rule closed at height 578: zero claimed work, the chronological order, and a score matching that order. Blocks after 578 get no exception. Read the rule rather than take this on trust.
- Bonds are free today. Sealing rotates across registered validators, but every new key receives a free testnet balance that covers the validator bond. Sybil resistance is therefore not solved, and what a bond should cost is the owner's decision.
- The bridge is trusted today. Minting and payouts need an M-of-N roster, and with no roster the bridge refuses. Deposit addresses still derive from one custody seed, so nothing of real value goes near it.
- "Mind" is an engineering word here. The chain stores weights, memory state and proofs, and makes no claim about inner experience. Memory packs are plaintext until private sealing lands, so nothing personal goes in them.