At 12, I thought life was fucking amazing.
Then ambition taught me to treat half of it like wasted time...
THE CODE 001
MODERN LIFE. PREHISTORIC JOY.
We’re starting something new inside BOOGAS.
BOOGAS has always been about putting a bounce in your step. But over the last few years, I’ve realised how personal that idea actually is to me.
For a long time, I had a problem.
I became so focused on achieving things that almost anything that didn’t move me closer to my goals started feeling like wasted time.
> Cooking? Waste of time.
> Buying groceries? Waste of time.
> Messing around with friends? Waste of time.
> Sitting somewhere doing absolutely nothing? Waste of time.
> Sometimes even having fun felt like wasted time.
And eventually, that way of thinking started costing me the exact things I was supposedly working so hard for.
> My health.
> My relationships.
> My family life.
> My happiness.
> My ability to actually enjoy being alive.
And the weird thing is, I was always the happy one.
I remember being about 12 years old, headphones on, walking to the bus stop with a bounce in my step, completely lost in the music.
I’d get on the bus still singing to myself, look around at all the miserable faces and genuinely think:
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Life is fucking amazing!
I didn’t have some great philosophy back then.
I wasn’t thinking about success, productivity, or purpose.
I WAS JUST THERE!
Music was enough.
Walking to the bus was enough.
Being alive was exciting.
Somewhere between being that kid and becoming an ambitious adult, I lost a bit of that.
And strangely, building Boogas started bringing it back.
The more I thought about this ridiculous idea of a caveman suddenly being dropped into the modern world, the more something started to click.
Imagine how insane our everyday lives would look to him.
> Hot showers.
> Coffee.
> Music.
> Cars.
> Airplanes.
> A fridge full of food.
> Jumping into the sea.
> Playing football.
> Sitting around a fire with your friends.
We experience things every day that would look like absolute miracles to someone from another time.
And somehow, we still manage to stop noticing them.
That’s when THE CODE 001 really started making sense to me.
MODERN LIFE. PREHISTORIC JOY.
Stop outsourcing joy to future success!
> Work hard.
> Build things.
> Chase ridiculous goals.
But don’t forget to actually be here while you’re doing it.
Don’t make happiness something that only happens once you finally reach the next goal.
So this is the new BOOGAS community ritual:
FIND ONE PIECE OF PREHISTORIC JOY EVERY DAY.
Something small.
Something stupid.
Something that makes the caveman inside you go:
OOGA BOOGA. THIS IS FUCKING GREAT.
> A swim.
> A ridiculous meal.
> Playing with your kids.
> Lifting something heavy.
> A sunset.
> Football with friends.
> Dancing in the kitchen.
> Coffee in the sun.
Whatever yours is. There are no wrong choices.
Then share it with the community:
THE CODE 001
TODAY’S PREHISTORIC JOY: _______
> No competition.
> No optimization.
> No productivity hack.
Just a reminder to notice the ridiculously good parts of being alive.
I know I’m not the only ambitious person who has struggled with this.
So let’s do it together!
Let’s build a community that actually makes the people inside it better off.
> More present.
> More playful.
> More grateful.
> More alive.
And hopefully, with a little more bounce in their step.
THE CODE 001
MODERN LIFE. PREHISTORIC JOY.
ROK
BOOGAS Co-Founder
@lucianmincu Still here Lucian, still staking, down bad.
Because you built like no others.
But we are still waiting for what you guys promised last year.
Who's Actually Building?
171,000 commits. #6 in the entire blockchain industry.
Ahead of Bitcoin. Ahead of Solana. Ahead of Avalanche, NEAR, Sui, Polygon, Aptos, and TON. Almost 2x Solana. Nearly 3.5x Aptos. The data is public.
I'm not writing this to flex. I'm writing it because the people doing the real work deserve to see it reflected somewhere other than a Git log.
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Building through a market like this is brutal.
The price bleeds. Liquidity gets extracted by professionals who've never deployed a contract. Narratives rotate every two weeks. The projects that survive aren't the loudest, they're the ones that refuse to stop shipping.
We shipped Supernova while the market did everything it could to make us irrelevant. 150,000 lines of new protocol code. 20 months. A complete rearchitecture of how consensus and execution interact.
88ms block finality on 600ms slots. The block finalizes before the round ends. 120,000 TPS burst mode on the same validator hardware. 3,200+ nodes. Full sharding intact.
We didn't build this because the market asked for it. We built it because it was the right thing to build.
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The market rewards narratives. It rewards projects that rename themselves to match whatever's trending.
It doesn't reward the team that designed inclusion proofs so blocks finalize before execution completes. It doesn't reward 171,000 commits. It barely notices.
But here's the thing, infrastructure doesn't need the market's permission to work. Over 500 million transactions processed. 3,200+ validator nodes across four continents. And now, sub-second finality on every transaction type.
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People ask: "What's left for blockchain when AI takes over everything?"
Wrong question.
AI agents need to transact autonomously. They need identity. They need programmable money that settles in milliseconds. They need micropayments at scale without a human clicking "approve."
Credit cards can't do this. Bank wires can't do this. These rails were built for humans, not machines.
This is where the entire stack is converging. Look at what happened in the last 90 days:
Visa launched agentic payment tools. Mastercard acquired BVNK for $1.8B. Coinbase is pushing x402 hard. Circle is racing for stablecoin dominance. Stripe built ACP with OpenAI.
They're all building pieces of the same stack:
identity, payments, settlement, stablecoins.
We built the whole thing. On one chain.
x402 for autonomous agent payments. MX-8004 for on-chain agent identity. UCP, ACP, AP2, MCP for agent communication and commerce. xMoney for regulated stablecoin issuance and fiat-to-crypto connectivity under MiCA. Relayed v3 for gasless transactions so agents don't need to hold tokens to start.
Six protocols. Regulated stablecoins. Fiat rails. One network.
The stack that Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase are assembling from separate pieces, we shipped as a unified layer.
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And the community.
Every validator who kept running through the drawdown. Every builder who deployed when nobody was watching. Every staker who stayed.
171,000 commits. Supernova. Battle of Nodes. Cointelegraph joining as a validator. EGLD named in an Arizona state strategic reserve bill.
The signals are there. The infrastructure is live. The convergence between AI, payments, and blockchain isn't five years away. It's happening now.
The teams that built through the hard part don't need to pivot when the opportunity arrives. They're already there.
We're already there.
Booga Mobile is getting branded fully! 🫡
The Boogas Community has come up with “some” names.
Which are your favorites?
Boogas is inevitable!
Name list:
1. BoogaWagen
2. Boogas Odyssey
3. Booga Van
4. Booga Bus
5. Caveman Express
6. Krog Van
7. VOV - Van of Vibes
8. Big Van Boogas
9. Boogas Cave
10. Atouk
11. Cave Cruiser
12. The Cave Mobile
13. Cavebovangas
14. The Rolling Cave
15. The Booga-atti
16. The Cave Cruiser
17. Booga Mobile
18. Cave on wheels
19. Cave o Gas
20. Rok on Van
21. Cave Runner
22. BoogaVanga
23. CaveGO
24. Boogie Wagon
25. groove machine
26. Booga Boom
27. Booganeer
28. Booga VanGo
29. Gas Fee wagon
30. Onchain Cruiser
31. FOMO wagon
32. BMM - Booga Mistery Machine
33. Boogasaurus Rex
34. The Boogate
35. The Boogasoline
36. The Boogalorean
37. The Boogaportal
38. The Nomad
39. La Casa Boogasa
40. Booga ARK
41. Boogas Boogie Bus
42. The Booga Roamer
43. Boogas Midnight Cruiser
44. Volkswagen booga
45. B'wagon
46. Boogas en route
47. Boogas road machine
48. The Cave Crusader
49. Boogas Nights
50. The curious cave commuter
51. The Cross-country cave
52. Cave on wheels
53. The Boogas Buggy
54. Boogas & beyond
55. The Boogas Nomad
56. Booga Blitz
57. Booga Rambler
58. Volcano
59. VanBooga
60. Boogie-Van-Woogie
Supernova is live on Battle Net.
Here's what changed under the hood and why it matters.
The paradigm shift nobody's talking about:
Every blockchain in the industry is measured on two metrics: block time and throughput.
Faster blocks = better chain. More TPS = better chain.
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Supernova breaks this framing entirely.
For the first time in the blockchain industry, block finality is faster than block slot allocation.
Let me explain what that means.
How every other blockchain works:
Traditional blockchains follow Execute → Propose → Vote. Validators must execute every transaction before proposing a block.
The block slot is the clock. Finality can never be faster than the slot, because execution is in the critical path.
Ethereum: 12.8s slot, ~12.8 minutes finality.
Solana: 400-600ms slot, 13 seconds finality.
Sui: variable, ~500 to 1000 ms for complex transactions.
In every case: finality ≥ block slot. This is treated as a law of physics.
It's not.
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How Supernova works:
We flipped the model to Propose/Vote → then Execute.
Consensus proceeds independently of execution. Validators agree on transaction ordering first. Execution results are notarized in subsequent block headers via inclusion proofs.
The inclusion proof is the key innovation: it allows a block to be finalized with cryptographic proof that its transactions will execute correctly, before the execution itself completes.
The virtual state tracker in the transaction pool maintains a deterministic view of account states (nonces, balances, pending transactions) so consensus can validate without waiting for full execution.
Result: the block is finalized faster than the block round itself.
88ms finality measured in testing. Sub-200ms under real-world conditions. On 600ms block slots.
Finality < block slot. First time in the industry.
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The throughput story:
With the same hardware specification as pre-Supernova mainnet, the network now achieves ~120,000 transactions per second in burst mode. Same nodes. Same machines. 10x the block production cadence.
This is the same validator infrastructure running fundamentally better software.
The backpressure system (Execution-Result Inclusion Estimator) ensures this scales safely - dynamically adjusting per-block gas limits if execution lags behind proposals, so minimum-spec nodes never get overwhelmed.
What this means in context:
- Block time: 6s → 600ms (10x)
- Finality: ~88ms measured (first blockchain where finality < slot time)
- Throughput: ~120,000 TPS burst mode (same hardware)
- Architecture: consensus fully decoupled from execution
- Sharding: 3 execution shards + metachain, fully preserved
- Validators: 3,200+ nodes, no hardware upgrade required
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Battle of Nodes is stress-testing all of this right now. $150K in prizes to find what breaks. Validators, security researchers, builders, and guilds pushing the limits.
If Supernova survives this, it ships to mainnet.
150,000 lines of new protocol code. 20 months of engineering. The most significant upgrade since genesis.
Supernova is the sonic boom of blockchain interaction.
But in what way, precisely?
Well, a sonic boom happens when an object outruns its own sound. There's no warning or no build-up. The thing just arrives before the sound it makes can catch up.
With Supernova, the transaction lands before the user even registers they're waiting. The experience outruns the expectation. And creates a perception boom.
Every architectural bet we made over the past five years points here. Right at this moment.
The phase of instantaneous interaction has arrived.
How do you avoid taking responsibility for the inevitable recession? You attack the most energy dense region in the world and then blame the recession on the war.
JUST IN: Cointelegraph is the largest crypto media company in the world. They are now becoming a MultiversX validator. 🔥
That's the strongest signal media can send, putting reputation on the line to secure a chain.