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Show HN: I put economic rules in silicon that can't be changed by software

3•PrimalOrigins•4h ago

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PrimalOrigins•4h ago
I spent months on this because I got frustrated with "code is law" being a lie.

Every blockchain claims immutability until something goes wrong. Then they fork. - Ethereum forked after the DAO hack - Bitcoin forks constantly over ideology - Smart contracts get "upgraded"

So I asked: what if you literally couldn't change the rules?

Not "we promise not to" — actually physically impossible.

I designed a chip where the transaction split (6.18%) is computed by arithmetic circuits etched into silicon at fabrication. No software layer. No API. No attack surface.

The split: - 1.00% → Founder - 3.00% → Liquidity - 2.18% → Maintenance - 93.82% → User

To change it, you'd need new photomasks ($millions), new fabrication (months), and replace every chip. That's the point.

Also included: - SRAM-PUF identity (each chip is physically unique) - Proof of Innovation (rewards diversity, not mining/wealth) - Logarithmic governance (anti-whale: 1000× activity = 10× votes) - 30-day mortality clause (dead wallets revert, unlike Bitcoin's 4M lost coins)

Real performance: ~500M transactions/sec @ 500MHz. No BS trillion-TPS claims.

It's 31 SystemVerilog modules, fully synthesizable. Not fabricated yet (RTL only). No formal verification yet. Performance is estimated.

I'm not selling anything. I want people to review the architecture. Find the flaws. Tell me why it won't work. That's how it gets better.

The project is open source and community-driven.

GitHub: https://github.com/YggdrasilDao/Primal-Origins-SoC-IP-Core

Happy to answer questions about the architecture.

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