Litheum

Litheum's Proof of Performance: Earth-Scale Web3 via Full Decentralization.

[Litheum @LitheumOfficial]

1/ We’re thrilled to announce that Litheum has raised $750K in a Strategic TestNet Round led by @Alphemy_Capital and @ambergroup_io!

This is a major milestone for Litheum in establishing its partnerships with top-tier institutions, including @amber_ac_

[Clayton Rabenda | Litheum Founder @clayrab]

Even if you've solved the scaling issue with tech like Proof of Performance, this is what you need for a blockchain that stays lean at scale.

We’re designing a next-gen blockchain storage economy that actually solves state bloat.

Instead of Ethereum’s tiny 4800 gas refund, every SSTORE (0 → non-zero) requires a full deposit into a global pool. The deposit follows a hardcoded price curve based on total non-zero slots across the chain. When you clear it back to 0 → you get 100% of the current price refunded (minus tiny cut to Runners).

Key innovations:
Transactions can end with net-negative LTH (cleanups are literally profitable) Separate max_deposit field (gas accounting is completely independent) Strong economic flywheel: bloated state = expensive deposits = massive incentive to clean
Benefits:
State size becomes self-regulating Validators & users are incentivized to actively reduce bloat Enables sustainably high throughput without exploding hardware requirements Turns state cleanup into an economically rewarded activity

Technical hurdles:
Guaranteeing the deposit pool can never go negative during rapid cleanup waves (easily solvable) Choosing optimal pricing model (per-block snapshot vs per-tx evaluation) Clean VM accounting for mixed gas + deposit + negative net cost txs Tuning the price curve shape and update rules

[Litheum @LitheumOfficial]

Litheum Core - Complete Development History

2026 (January - March) — WASM & Production Hardening

- Peers database refactored to define strategy under Proof-of-Participation consensus
- Transaction RLP-proto validation improvements
- Service configuration updates (Nix) for new config file structure
- SDK WASM support
- Self-updating binary swap mechanism for easier node upgrades
- End-to-end test fixes and stability improvements

2025 (October - December) — Ethereum Compatibility & Consensus Features

- Lucky hash implementation (custom consensus mechanism)
- RLP-encoded transactions in TransactionProto and MiniblockCrypto
- Advanced mempool nonce handling
- Block producer reward claim transaction handling
- Ethereum-based transaction signature and verification — full EVM compatibility
- Components Injector architecture for modular dependency injection

2025 (July - September) — Miniblocks & Metrics

- Miniblocks implementation
- Block and transaction signature verification in add_block flow
- Global RPS metrics for performance monitoring
- Delegation table contract deployment and interaction
- Serializable bloom filter for transaction propagation
- Local CI runner and development tooling improvements
- Static dApp serving capability
- REVM upgraded to version 27
- Chain ID standardized across codebase

2025 (April - June) — DPRS & Smart Contract Infrastructure

- DPRS (Dynamic Proof of Reputation System) integration — novel consensus component
- DPRS threshold calculation
- Data relay (drelay) initial implementation
- eth_accounts RPC implementation
- Litheum swap contract deployment testing
- Transaction revert responses
- Gas limit fixes (30M cap)
- Private key support in lcli
- Nonce testing and genesis fee test fixes

2025 (January - March) — Staking & RPC Layer

- Staking table implementation — on-chain staking contract
- Modular RPC interface — cleaner JSON-RPC architecture
- Estimate gas RPC implementation
- Transaction signature fixes in RLP to proto conversion
- Forkable state management refactor
- Logs database added
- Fee as difficulty mechanism, epoch-based gas price adjustment
- Graceful shutdown improvements

2024 (October - December) — MetaMask & Axum Migration

- eth_call RPC implementation — core EVM compatibility
- Transaction receipt implementation
- Working MetaMask demo — wallet compatibility milestone
- Hyper to Axum migration — modern HTTP framework
- Block conversion to Alloy block format
- Mempool major cleanup
- Transaction database segregation
- Multi-RPC request support and txpool_content
- Block persistence improvements
- E2E tests repaired and added to CI

2024 (July - September) — EVM Integration

- REVM integration — Ethereum Virtual Machine added to core
- Basic JSON-RPCs for MetaMask compatibility
- Nix flake setup for reproducible builds
- New ForkableStateManager architecture
- Ethereum-style keys, accounts, signatures support
- Graceful shutdown using cancellation tokens
- devcli tool for launching multiple node instances
- Justfile build automation
- Spammer tool via Python and lcli

2024 (March - June) — Configuration & Infrastructure

- Hyper service for HTTP/2 connections
- Node role validation (must have TR, BR, or DR role)
- Demo wallet

2023 (July - November) — CLI Expansion

- More CLI commands for mempool, UTXO, and wallet operations
- Overflow-safe math for all balance operations
- Multi-node support on same machine in lcli

2022 (August - December) — HTTP & Containerization

- Configuration system rework
- Faucet implementation
- HTTP client
- Staking CLI and getConsensusParams CLI
- Block hash manager implementation
- lcli shell completions
- CLI moved from FIFO to socket communication

2022 (May - July) — Staking & Block Building

- Block building implementation
- Forkable staking pools
- Genesis stake functionality
- Staking pool initialization from genesis block
- Miniblock stake validation
- Block persistence integration
- Peers database and peers service
- Fee calculation system
- Faster Base58 encoding

2022 (April - May) — Wallet, WASM & DevOps

- Wallet 0.x database implementation (browser + native)
- WASM project setup — browser compatibility begins
2022 (January - April) — Fork Management & Core Types

- Fork Manager implementation
- Staking for core services
- Seed transaction in genesis block
- Merkle tree for block hashing (replacing simple serialization hash)
- Lucky hashing data types
- Block persistence foundation
- get_known_input_set implementation
- Prost proto setup
- Graceful shutdown

2021 (October - December) — Foundation

- Merkle trees implementation
- Mini blocks architecture
- Mempool implementation
- Max reorg depth handling
- Block fee validation and handling by Fork Manager
- Initial keypair store and lcli
- Fork Manager for state management across forks
- Preliminary class/data-structure layout
- Initial commit — basic datatypes, networking with Tokio, logging, Warp server

[Doodle Dude @alexfgkrug]

FULL VIDEO of my panel discussion on the MainStage at @Zebu_live. We talk about how AI is altering the DeFi landscape!

I relax and smile more towards the end😁
https://t.co/tM3XYlp13L

[Greg Tomaselli @GregTomaselli]

Pay-Fi and Micro transactions will change the world as we know it. Thank you @LitheumOfficial

[gino.eth 💽 @GinoTheGhost]

Crypto has lost the plot. I'm tired boss.

This place used to be punk, but it's sold it's soul to the institutions it vowed to dethrone and has lost its identity entirely.

Crypto was intended to be an apolitical rebellion. That's been replaced with pseudo-partisanship, grifting, insider trading, and corruption from the top down.

What drew me to this place was disruption, ownership, art, privacy, truth. A chance to level the playing field. But right now it's just old dogs, new tricks.

CT has become insufferable, too. If I have to read one more fucking ChatGPT info-fi post about some protocol nobody is every going to use to farm some token that nobody is going to hold for more than 17 minutes I'm gonna blow my brains out.

Cozy in spot, and I know it's up only for [my bags] obviously, but I'm deeply disinterested in what's going on here right now. Bummer.

[Nick Szabo @NickSzabo4]

Fiat is stable, until it isn't.

[Greg Tomaselli @GregTomaselli]

@kevinolearytv Ethereum is awesome but it’s not our scalable solution. Microtransactions cannot live on Ethereum - but I will on @LitheumOfficial

[Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT]

"It's hard for people to imagine what's possible, because so much hasn't been possible up to this point."

This cryptocurrency project is a breakthrough in what's possible for the blockchain. Incredibly fast and almost free to transact with. @LitheumOfficial is rewriting what can be achieved with crypto. CTO @clayrab explains how, courtesy of @TCR_news_

#Ethereum #Bitcoin #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #Altcoins

[Clayton Rabenda | Litheum Founder @clayrab]

@Justin_Bons Fundamental problem is RPC costs, Solana doesn't solve this, simple. Yes, we need scale, that doesn't mean any L1 that claims to scale has done it properly.

[Litheum @LitheumOfficial]

@TCR_news_ If anyone has questions for the team don't hesitate to post them here or in our telegram!

@TCR_news_ @CryptoRichYT Thanks so much again for hosting!

[The Coin Republic @TCR_news_]

🚨 Live AMA Alert!

AI. Identity. Web3.
Join us for a powerful AMA with @LitheumOfficial & @CryptoRichYT to explore digital identity, the role of AI in Web3, and decentralization's next leap -

hosted by @TCR_news_

📍 https://t.co/vYJBhqlISl
📅 July 30, Wednesday
🕔 5 PM BST | 9:30 PM IST

[Litheum @LitheumOfficial]

We are proud to be working with @amber_ac_ on building out the next generation of blockchain infra

[amber.ac @amber_ac_]

And that's a wrap! We just had our second meet-up after the BUIDL_QUESTS 2025 launch with @GoKiteAI @KiteAIChinese!

We got more demo & battle session for you🎤

🟢 1st Demo: Temple is the first on-chain ritual space designed to explore the emotional value of Web3. Through symbolic actions like wishing, offering tokens as incense, and receiving AI-generated divination slips, users participate in a shared experience where every interaction is not just recorded, but remembered.

🟢 2nd Demo: WrapX is an on-chain “Inspiration Vault” platform that turns ideas and actions into value. Users can wrap tokens and mint NFTs that represent their inspirations, goals, or habits. Turning native tokens into non-fungible assets for expression, coordination, and play, WrapX unlocks composability on-chain, creating primitives that can reflect access rights, agent identities, and cultural contributions.

🟢 3rd Demo: CoinCrush is a personalized, lightweight investment interface combining AI and Web3. Inspired by social apps, users swipe not to match with people, but with tailored token strategies based on their emotional state and market signals.

All teams really dig team into the tech and battled it out live.

We’re opening the floor for more community demos in upcoming sessions. If you’re building at the intersection of AI × Crypto, especially in AgentFi!

Excited to see you in our next event 😎

👉 Join our community: https://t.co/6wFFX7o8DU
👉 Join the hackathon: https://t.co/nlXWbI8QVg
👉 More detail: https://t.co/KlwVHXR5fB

[AMAZING☘️ ✨ @AM_AZ1NG]

Ever tried solving a puzzle where every right move breaks something else?

That’s the Blockchain Trilemma "the ultimate Web3 headache"

You want the chain to be fast?
Oops, now it’s less secure.

You want it secure?
Oops, now it can’t scale.

You want it open to all?
Now it slows to a crawl.

It’s like trying to cook jollof, fried rice, and egusi perfectly in one pot.
Impossible... right?

Now enter Litheum; the chain that said:

“What if we didn’t have to choose?”

With Proof of Performance, Litheum rewards nodes that actually work.

It’s built for: ⚡ Speed (ZK-native and modular)
🌍 True decentralization (merit > money)
🔐 Security (zero-knowledge protection)

No trade-offs. No compromises.
Just a blockchain that performs.

NB:

@LitheumOfficial didn’t dodge the trilemma.
It outperformed it.

[Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT]

@SentinelP2P offers extraordinary #privacy with its #Decentralized #VPN
@LitheumOfficial offers extraordinary #performance with its advanced technology.
Find out what happens when they meet. Watch below

@clayrab @LitheumOfficial $PTP @MathNodes #dvpn $DVPN #freedom #EVM #Ethereum #Bitcoin

[AMAZING☘️ ✨ @AM_AZ1NG]

Gm 💛

some projects just feel like they’re being built with heart.
@LitheumOfficial is one of them.

no noise.

just quiet work and solid vision.

I like that.

[AMAZING☘️ ✨ @AM_AZ1NG]

Gm 💛

Soft face. 🙂

Sharp mind. We move.

[AMAZING☘️ ✨ @AM_AZ1NG]

Gm 💙

They're locked in.

I’m locked in.

we missed ETH.

we’re not missing @LitheumOfficial 🎯😉

[Litheum @LitheumOfficial]

@_Y0_GA Sign up for the builder's program on our website, via authentication with a wallet, and you get access to all our docs

[Litheum @LitheumOfficial]

Devnet is live!

[AMAZING☘️ ✨ @AM_AZ1NG]

People keep asking—

“Where’s the hype?”
“When's the token?”
“When's the community going to pop off?”

And @LitheumOfficial just replies:

“We’re building.”

Devnet is already live. Builders can deploy DApps.

[Clayton Rabenda | Litheum Founder @clayrab]

@AM_AZ1NG @LitheumOfficial No one wants to get to these milestones more than the folks on the team!

Big things are cooking now as we're trying to get a lot done before Token Singapore...