Private digital cash for a post-quantum world. Discrete is a standalone proof-of-work chain where ownership is sealed by post-quantum signatures.
Harvest-now-decrypt-later is only the opening move. Nearly every coin in circulation rests its ownership and its emission on elliptic-curve signatures. The day a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer arrives, those signatures can be forged at will — not merely archived data decrypted. Balances can be seized, coinbase rewards counterfeited, and the integrity of issuance itself collapses across an entire ECC chain, all at once.
ECDSA and EdDSA decide who owns what — and who may mint new supply. Shor's algorithm recovers private keys from the public keys exposed on-chain forever, letting an adversary forge signatures, drain existing balances, and counterfeit the coinbase. The whole monetary system fails, not just its confidentiality.
No elliptic curves to break. Discrete signs ownership and authorizes emission with post-quantum cryptography from the first block — so neither your coins nor the supply can be forged, today or after a quantum adversary arrives.
Accounts are anchored to post-quantum signatures rather than elliptic curves. Your coins remain provably yours even against an adversary holding a quantum computer.
Register a short alias on-chain and share it instead of a very long address. Payments still fan out to one-time stealth outputs, so a memorable identifier never costs you receiving privacy.
Proof-of-work tuned for commodity CPUs and hardened against ASICs. Every block is signed by the miner's post-quantum identity, binding each reward to the worker and adding real friction to pools and rental — tilting issuance toward solo CPU miners rather than a few industrial operators.
Every client is open source. Verify the build, read the code, or just grab a wallet and start.
Full node and wallet in one app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Send, receive, and mine with a click.
Headless daemon, wallet CLI, and miner for operators and power users. Scriptable, auditable, server-ready.
Lightweight wallet for the browser, iOS, and Android. Keys stay on your device — coming alongside mainnet.
Discrete launches with hardened post-quantum ownership and adds amount-level discretion as the protocol matures. The transaction graph stays transparent by design — Discrete refines cash, it doesn't chase anonymity.
A focused set of primitives — proven, conservative, and post-quantum by default. Figures below describe the proposed protocol and may evolve before mainnet.
Read the protocol, audit the approach, or spin up a node and help secure the network.