MAINNET Live product

ADDITION vs four chains

Only what ADDITION_MAINNET_V1 ships today — next to short, well-known public characterizations of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Monero. Height and peers come from live getinfo (may be 0). No ADDITION TPS, USD price, or ZK-privacy claim on this page.

Live comparison

ADDITION column = shipped mainnet. Other columns = typical public characterizations (not ADDITION measurements).

Axis	ADDITION	Bitcoin	Ethereum	Solana	Monero
Consensus	UTXO L1 · `memory_hard` PoW · `ADDITION_MAINNET_V1`	UTXO · Nakamoto PoW	Account · Proof of Stake	Account · PoH + Tower BFT (PoS)	UTXO-like · RandomX PoW
PoW / energy style	Memory-hard scratch over SHA3-512 (target floor in genesis / runbook)	SHA-256d · ASIC-oriented	N/A (PoS; no PoW mining)	N/A (PoS validators)	RandomX · CPU-oriented
Signatures	`ML-DSA-87` via liboqs · `pq_mode=strict` · SHA3-512 digests — NIST PQ suite as shipped; not a forever-unbreakable claim	ECDSA / Schnorr (secp256k1)	ECDSA (secp256k1)	Ed25519	Ed25519-family / CLSAG stack
Privacy (live)	`privacy_claim=opening_not_zk` — SHA3-512 commitment + nullifier opening; the node sees the trapdoor	Transparent ledger	Transparent ledger	Transparent ledger	Ring signatures + confidential amounts (RingCT) as public Monero design
Finality model	Probabilistic PoW (longest / heaviest valid chain)	Probabilistic PoW	Economic finality under PoS epochs	Slot confirmation under PoH / Tower	Probabilistic PoW
Fee model	Genesis / spec `min_fee=0`; live `dynamic_min_fee` / fee fields from `getinfo` when the node answers	Fee market / auction	EIP-1559 base + tip	Priority fees / prioritization	Dynamic fees (typical public Monero design)
Open mining / join	Open: bootstrap `34.27.30.115:28546`, sync, mine `memory_hard`; public RPC `38546` / site `/api/rpc`	Open mining + public nodes	Validator staking (not open PoW mining)	Validator set / stake (not open PoW mining)	Open mining + public nodes
Height / peers	Only live `getinfo` (strip on this page) — height may be `0`; no canned stats	Public explorers / nodes	Public explorers / nodes	Public explorers / nodes	Public explorers / nodes

What ADDITION ships today

Post-quantum spends — ML-DSA-87 + SHA3-512 on mainnet (pq_mode=strict)
Open PoW join — anyone can bootstrap, sync, and mine memory_hard
Live network reads — explorer / status / strip use public getinfo only
Opening privacy — current live claim is opening_not_zk (not zero-knowledge)

Rows that are not live on ADDITION mainnet (throughput races, ZK privacy, separate fast profiles) are omitted here on purpose.

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Sources / notes

ADDITION cells: code, genesis, public seed ports, and live getinfo / privacy_claim only.
BTC / ETH / SOL / XMR cells: short typical public characterizations of those networks — not measurements taken by ADDITION.
No invented ADDITION height, peer count, TPS, or USD ticker on this page.
Deeper engineering write-up: whitepaper · join steps: /join/ · RPC: /rpc/.