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Parallax v1.0.4 - Mainnet Launch

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Changelog v1.0.4

  • Fix node synchronization in snap mode.
  • Change default sync mode back to parallax-snap to speed up sync.

Changelog v1.0.3

  • Change default sync mode from parallax-snap to full.

Changelog v1.0.2

  • Rename the snap sync protocol to parallax-snap. This make sure other non-Parallax compliant nodes stop finding Parallax nodes via the discovery protocol.

Changelog v1.0.1

  • Fix warning messages about dropping peers in main chain.

🌌 Overview

After months of development, testing, and refinement, Parallax Mainnet is now live.
This marks the beginning of a new decentralized era — a Bitcoin-inspired, EVM-compatible blockchain that fuses deterministic monetary policy with full smart-contract capabilities.

Parallax is a clean-room fork of go-ethereum, meticulously re-engineered to follow Bitcoin’s ossified economic model while introducing an entirely new Proof-of-Work algorithm, XHash, purpose-built for fairness, verifiability, and long-term sustainability.

⚙️ Core Highlights

🔐 Immutable Monetary Policy

  • Hard-capped at 21 million coins
  • Block reward of 50 coins, halving every 210 000 blocks
  • No premine, no dev-fund, no pre-allocation — 100% fair launch
  • Follows a deterministic emission curve identical to Bitcoin’s

⚡ Consensus Algorithm: XHash

  • Custom GPU/CPU PoW algorithm derived from Ethash
  • Epoch length: 720 blocks
  • Modified FNV-1 round function with Parallax-specific constants
  • Optimized for verifiability and ASIC resistance
  • Fully open-source miner: Hashwarp

🧠 Full EVM Compatibility

  • Complete support for Ethereum smart contracts, tooling, and RPCs
  • Metamask / Chainlist-ready endpoints
  • Compatible with major development frameworks (Hardhat, Foundry, Thirdweb, etc.)

🕸️ Network Rules & Timings

  • 10-minute target block time
  • Difficulty retargeting via Nakamoto-style median-time-past adjustment
  • Genesis timestamp: 2025-10-28 19:00 GMT
  • Chain ID: 2110

🧩 Mining Tools

Hashwarp Miner

Minimal GPU/CPU miner for XHash.

  • OpenCL 1.2 + compatible
  • CUDA 12.x compatible
  • Easy CLI interface: 
    hashwarp -P http://127.0.0.1:8545

Latest release: v1.2.0

🔭 Developer Ecosystem

🪙 Fair Launch Policy

Parallax launched with zero premine and open GPU mining from block 0.
All coins in circulation are verifiably mined on-chain.
The Genesis block contains no privileged allocations — only the protocol definition and a genesis message:

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🧩 Repository Summary

Component Description
parallax Core node client (Go)
xhash C++ PoW library
hashwarp XHash GPU miner with OpenCL and CUDA support
parallax-website Next.js parallaxchain.org website
parallax-docs Developer documentation

🤝 Join the Community

🌠 "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

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