A shielded settlement layer for invoices, payroll, and cross-border trade—built to withstand quantum adversaries and AI-scale surveillance. One pool from genesis, with selective disclosure when business needs it.
Transparent ledgers leak margins, supplier graphs, payroll, and inventory timing. HEGEMON keeps commerce legible to participants—not to observers.
Custody notes locally and transact without exposing balances, ownership, or memos on-chain.
Settle wholesale transfers and invoices with permissionless PoW finality—without publishing the trade graph.
Generate payment proofs for auditors, exchanges, or counterparties without handing over a viewing key.
AI scales surveillance. Quantum breaks today’s cryptography. Transparent ledgers leak business strategy.
Shor's algorithm collapses elliptic-curve cryptography. Legacy chains built on ECC become forgeable and rewindable.
Adversaries record traffic today to decrypt tomorrow. If privacy depends on breakable assumptions, confidentiality has an expiration date.
Transaction graphs and metadata become dossiers. In a transparent ledger, competitors and states can map the entire market.
One shielded pool from genesis, STARK proofs, and lattice-based cryptography. Privacy by default, with selective disclosure when required.
Four tightly-coupled subsystems deliver private, settlement-grade commerce.
wallet/
Note management
hegemon-app/
Desktop UI
circuits/transaction
STARK tx proofs
circuits/block
Commitment proofs
consensus/
PoW sealing
network/
P2P gossip
state/merkle
Poseidon forest
runtime/
Substrate pallets
Quantitative privacy guarantees—measured in bits of security.
| Property | Classical | Post-Quantum | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Note encryption | 192 bits | ~96 bits | ML-KEM-768 (NIST Level 3) |
| Commitment binding | ~192 bits | ~128 bits | Poseidon2-384 (48-byte digest) |
| Nullifier preimage | ~384 bits | ~192 bits | 48-byte hash output |
| STARK soundness | ≥128 bits | ≥128 bits | Transparent, hash-based |
| Signatures | ~192 bits | ~128 bits | ML-DSA-65 (NIST Level 3) |
HEGEMON (HGN) establishes a unified, privacy-preserving settlement layer that remains secure even in the presence of large-scale quantum adversaries. The project combines a post-quantum shielded pool, programmable governance, and settlement-grade consensus into a single monetary primitive that can serve both retail and interbank use cases.
Privacy is a first-order commercial requirement because merchants, suppliers, and consumers routinely expose strategic information—such as inventory positions, negotiated discounts, or sensitive purchase histories—when forced to transact on transparent ledgers. Once adversaries or competitors can scrape that data, they can front-run contracts, profile customers for coercive price discrimination, or deanonymize activists, making private commerce practically impossible.
| Feature | HEGEMON | Zcash | Aleo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantum-resistant | ✓ ML-DSA/SLH-DSA | ✗ ECC | ✗ ECC |
| Trusted setup | ✓ None (STARKs) | ✗ Powers of Tau | ✗ Universal SRS |
| Single shielded pool | ✓ From genesis | ✗ 3 pools | ✓ |
| Transparent mode | ✗ Shielded only | ✓ t-addrs | ✓ Public state |
| Proof system | STARK | Groth16 | Marlin |
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