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Available on private testnetTestnet: yesMainnet: Not availableSoftware: Core bad4a06ea · protocol pqwerai-v8-testnet/1Updated

Blockchain and EVM

PQWERAI is an EVM chain whose blocks are produced by GhostRider proof of work and finalized by Smartnode checkpoint votes. To applications it looks like an Ethereum JSON-RPC node with chain ID 77240, plus the g4_* namespace for finality and issuance.

flowchart LR
  subgraph Production["Block production (3–7 s)"]
    M[GhostRider miners] --> B[Blocks: EVM state transition]
  end
  subgraph Finality["Finality (every 32 blocks)"]
    V[Smartnode validators] -- signed votes --> C[Checkpoint certificate]
  end
  B --> C
  C --> F[(Finalized: never reorganised)]
Topic Page
Chain ID, issuance, EVM rules, finality and registry parameters Network parameters
Which EVM opcodes and EIPs are active EVM compatibility
Transaction types, gas, base fee burn, priority fee Transactions and fees
When a transaction is irreversible Finality for applications
Every JSON-RPC method JSON-RPC reference
Try read-only requests API playground

What differs from Ethereum mainnet

  • Consensus: PoW (GhostRider) + FFG-style checkpoint finality, not proof-of-stake block proposals. 0x44 (PREVRANDAO/DIFFICULTY) returns the PoW difficulty, not beacon randomness — never use it as randomness.
  • No blobs: EIP-4844 blob transactions and the BLOBHASH/BLOBBASEFEE opcodes are not available.
  • Finality tags: the safe/finalized block tags return errors; use g4_status.finalized_height.
  • RPC surface: no personal_*, admin_*, debug_*, miner_*, tracing or WebSocket subscriptions.
  • Issuance: uncapped, split 79.2 % PoW / 19.8 % PoS / 1 % founder treasury, with EIP-1559 base-fee burn.

Sources at 72057fe3ec: testnet/release/network/network.json

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