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_

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AMA/Standup
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Litheum Friday AMA https://t.co/Zhke8nzbGs

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Friday AMA
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Litheum Friday AMA https://t.co/IG7MnXdebv

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Friday AMA starting in 20...

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Litheum Daily Standup https://t.co/sjaV08r7fP

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Going live in 20 minutes

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Building Layer 1 Blockchain from scratch https://t.co/TjRSZ4UVwg

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We'll also be streaming to Youtube and Twitch if people prefer to watch there.

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Building Layer 1 Blockchain from scratch https://t.co/br7BMWY1y8

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This was a test post and audio wasn't working. Anyway it's a sign of things coming, we'll leave it here for now.

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@Al_Nadim_nabil @helvyse It is supremely practical. The "difficulty" = running a "full node". PoP unifies validators and RPC providers. Every part of the blockchain is consensus. Constraint on TPS is dictated by hardware costs and demand rather than some arbitrary limit e.g. 1.2MB/block or 40M gas.

[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

[Alex Krug @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 The Ghost @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