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What's real today — the honesty boundary

Last updated: 08/06/20262 min read

This is the page We're proudest of, because it's the one most projects don't write. Ask of any claim, anywhere: is this here now, in progress, or the vision?

✅ Here now — running, and verifiable by you:

  • The Testnet MVC is live on real infrastructure: 4 nodes (xchain-001 in Singapore hosts the services and a validator; xchain-002 in Helsinki is a second validator + chain-data backup; plus xchain-003 / xchain-004). Two active validators (≈70.4% / 29.6%).
  • 6 of the 7 primitives are real on-chain modules (UIR, UAC, XMP, DA, VLC, SC). MVC-1..4 pass end-to-end on real nodes with a real relayer — devnet/mvc-all.sh runs the whole set green.
  • The official explorer www.xscan.org reads chain-id and denom at runtime — real height, real validators, real transactions.
  • The codebase is 100% English, guarded by three acceptance gates, with green CI.

🟡 In progress / a stand-in — said plainly, not hidden:

  • PAI's prover is MOCK. The aggregation is real; the cryptographic proof is a mock, and ProofSystem.MOCK is blocked off-testnet (a fail-closed chain-id guard). There is progress — a real Groth16/BN254 verify is wired into x/pai behind a stand-in circuit MiMC(prev,tx,new) (~164-byte proof) — but that is not yet the real SP1 verifying key (the true SP1 wrap circuit is ~15.97M constraints and OOMs locally). So We do not say "We use SP1." Swapping in the real SP1 key is a named, future milestone.
  • EVM on A1 has a fuller proof-of-concept (cosmos/evm, coin-type 60, 17 passing e2e assertions) — but it lives on a feature branch, not merged, and going live on A1 needs a re-genesis (a human sign-off). EVM release is not done.
  • The public mirror repo is kept private, opened only on explicit instruction.

🔭 The vision — not here yet, and written in the future tense:

  • The ~1 billion TPS figure is aggregate nominal throughput (Base A ~100M + Base B ~900M) — not a billion composable transactions over one global state. It is mostly low-value data on a light, prunable tier.
  • Multi-Cell, Multi-Zone, regional scale, recursive proof aggregation, universal liquidity — these are the roadmap (§10), not today.

Why We do this: blending "here now," "in progress," and "the vision" is the fastest way to lose your trust — and it's exactly what We refuse to do. Keep each in its own tense, and what's left is something rare in this industry: a story you can check.

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