Abstract. The Radiant network is a peer-to-peer digital asset system that enables direct exchange of value without going through a central party. A zero compromise blockchain with the inherent parallelism and performance characteristics of an unspent transaction output (UTXO) based architecture and the Turing Complete programming of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) architectures. This is a breakthrough smart contracting and digital asset system based on SHA512 proof-of-work, designed for extreme throughput and scale.
⚠️ Important Note: Radiant is free, open source and fairly mined proof-of-work (SHA512) blockchain. This is not an investment, not a security, no funds were raised. There are no leaders or official roadmap or central authority in Radiant, like Bitcoin itself. This is a public informational blog about the Radiant Blockchain. There is no endorsement of any listings, the project is launched as-is and comes with no warranties or guarantees of any kind.
What is Radiant?
Radiant is a revolutionary network designed to solve the problems with all existing blockchains in terms of scale, parallelism and Turing Complete programming. Radiant is a peer-to-peer digital asset system that enables direct exchange of value without going through a central party. Similarly to Bitcoin, the Radiant network requires minimal structure, and timestamps transactions into an ongoing hash-based chain of proof-of-work (SHA512/256). We introduce two novel breakthrough techniques to validate digital assets: unique references and a general purpose induction proof system both of which operate in constant O(1) time and space. It is possible to compose outputs in any manner, without compromising the inherent parallelism and performance characteristics of an unspent transaction output (UTXO) based architecture. Therefore, users can leave and rejoin the Radiant network at will and be assured of the integrity and authenticity of their digital assets.
Breakthrough Architecture: Hybrid Account + UTXO Smart Contracts
Radiant offers the benefits of a UTXO blockchain along with the advanced capabilities of EVM compatible blockchains.
Full Development Stack Available And Live
“I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper. I think I will be able to release the code sooner than I could write a detailed spec.” — Satoshi Nakamoto
In the spirit of Satoshi Nakamoto’s launch of Bitcoin, we released a fully operational and software development stack on Day 1, before even writing the White Paper. We wanted to be convinced that the revolutionary and breakthrough system worked before writing about it. No waiting, no limitations, just a scalable blockchain node and toolkit to build your dreams today.
All source code is immediately available and Open Source MIT Licensed.
Network Details
White Paper (English)
Network Name: Radiant
Mining Algorithm: SHA512/256 Proof-of-work
Block Time: 5 minutes
Initial Block Size: 256 MB
Block Reward Schedule: 50,000 per block
Block Reward Halvening: 2 years
Maximum Supply: 21,000,000,000
Decimal Places: 8
Launch Date: 2022–06–21 02:42 UTC
Resources
- White Paper (English)
- White Paper (Español)
- White Paper (Simplified Chinese — 中文白皮书
- Github: https://github.com/RadiantBlockchain
- Explorers (Mainnet): https://radiantexplorer.com/ and https://explorer.radiant.ovh/
