The chain
NEN Chain — a sovereign L1.
NEN Chain is a Bitcoin-inspired Layer-1 we're building from scratch. Privacy is not an optional cloak — it is the natural state of money: owned by the individual, disclosed only by consent, and protected at the base layer by default. Validators are weighted by stake and verified real-world contribution. NEN is its native asset — used to pay fees, secure the chain, and vote.
Sovereign base layer
Our own L1, not a smart contract on someone else's chain. The protocol is the product.
Proof of Contribution
Validators weighted by stake plus verified real-world contribution — energy, learning, research. Stake alone is not enough.
Mandatory privacy
Shielded transfers at the base layer. View keys enable consent-based disclosure for compliance without surveilling everyone.
Bitcoin-inspired discipline
Hard supply ceiling, no admin keys over user balances, no silent upgrades. Sound money, modernized.
Technical specs
Contract addresses
Published here at TGE. Bookmark this page — never trust addresses sent over DM or social.
Security & trust posture
- Multiple independent audits
No mainnet deployment until at least two reputable audits sign off and a public bug bounty has run.
- Timelocked admin
All sensitive admin functions are gated by a 48-hour on-chain timelock. No instant changes to user balances or supply parameters.
- No hidden mint key
Minting is governed by an on-chain activity oracle and the DAO — never by a single private key.
- Open source & reproducible
Contracts, build pipeline, and emission oracle are open-source with deterministic builds.
- Public dashboards
Live supply, burn, treasury, and governance dashboards available from day one.
- Progressive decentralization
Multi-sig safeguards in year one, retired in favor of full DAO control as the system stabilizes.