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Value in your custody.
The note is the basic unit of value. Wallets manage the secrets that authorize spending and reveal note contents to their intended recipients.
How notes workPost-quantum shielded money
Privacy,
with a future.
A new foundation for private money. Shielded notes, post-quantum cryptography, and an open network anyone can help test.
Public testnet / Alpha software
Hegemon / Protocol study01
Private value. Public progress.HGN / Pre-mainnet
The network, now
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01 / The protocol
Private by design.
Open to scrutiny.
Hegemon brings local custody, a shared shielded pool, and post-quantum foundations into one monetary protocol.
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Built for the next era.
Lattice-based key establishment and signatures, alongside hash-based commitments and transparent proofs, underpin the post-quantum design.
Explore the foundations03
Progress you can inspect.
Public source, documented methods, and a live testnet. Run a node, inspect blocks, and help put the protocol through its paces.
View the sourceInside the design
A private note.
A public record.
The network needs to check the rules. The design keeps a note's private contents with its participants.
Read the protocol designStart with a shielded note.
A note carries value and the data needed to spend it. Its encrypted contents are intended for the recipient's wallet.
Prove that the rules hold.
The proving system is designed to establish authorization and conservation of value while keeping the underlying note contents private.
Leave a verifiable public record.
Blocks record public commitments and action metadata. The explorer makes those records visible without connecting a wallet.
Protocol illustration · not a live transaction
02 / Why it matters
Money moves.
Your life shouldn't
move with it.
A payment can reveal relationships, habits and business strategy. Privacy belongs in the foundations of a monetary network.
Less exposure by default.
Public transaction histories can reveal who does business with whom. Hegemon's shielded design aims to keep note contents with their participants.
Plan beyond today's cryptography.
A sufficiently capable quantum computer would threaten widely used elliptic-curve cryptography. Hegemon starts from post-quantum building blocks.
Make the work inspectable.
Cryptographic claims need evidence. The source, design documents and methods make the assumptions and unfinished work open to review.
03 / Open research
Read the code.
Challenge the design.
Hegemon is an active research and engineering project. The public testnet is a place to test connectivity, synchronization and node operation as the protocol develops.
CURRENT STAGE / ALPHA
Production proof and privacy qualification remain in progress. Testnet rewards and recipient descriptors are public; the explorer shows the fields recorded on-chain.
v0.11 / Pre-mainnet
The next block
starts with you.
Run a node on the fresh HGN-only pre-mainnet test network.
v0.10 balances and proofs do not migrate. Preserve your old data and wallet backups.
Stablecoins and merge mining are disabled.
Python 3 is required. Extract to a new directory and follow the quickstart.
Existing v0.11 users: upgrade to v0.11.4 before block 18,660. Keep your existing data directory and wallet backups.
v0.11.4 release notes
Linux · x86_64
macOS · Apple silicon
macOS · Intel
Windows · x86_64
Upgrade and activation guide
SHA-256 checksums
Verify the archive checksum before running. The launcher starts in sync/relay mode; follow the quickstart to enable mining. Keep automatic time sync enabled.