Our goal is to establish an energy-based stablecoin JAX as a universal standard for the quantification of economic value.
The cryptocurrency created on top of Jax.Network shard chains is called JAX. It’s a unit of economic value based on the cost of hashrate (energy spent). If you are interested in learning more about JAX you can read our
academic paper.
To pay for the security of Jax.Network by incentivising Bitcoin miners to merge-mine Jax.Network
To be used as gas fees for exchange agent listing transactions and other critical transactions
To incentivise miners to defend the beacon chain that holds the shard registry
Serve as a secondary savings account for the Bitcoin network
To incentivise miners to defend the Bitcoin network when the BTC reward drops to 0
To reflect the value of the transactional payments ecosystem of Jax.Network.
Yes, JAX coins will bring the DeFi ecosystem to Bitcoin as an alternative stablecoin to hedge your risks, pay yield, conduct lending and borrowing operations, etc. As JAX is backed by energy, it ensures stability in value and low inflation. Besides all this, JAX coins are not collateralized, so your capital does not have to be locked and stay idle to maintain value against highly volatile digital assets.
The first sharded PoW network. Jax.Network introduces a novel approach for solving the scalability problem in blockchain networks based on a specific reward function, sharding, merged mining, and a decentralized value exchange ecosystem.
Our block reward function on shards is proportional to the aggregated hashrate on the network. If our network difficulty follows the one of Bitcoin, this implies that it is an exponential curve. Thus, ensuring the security of the network would be paid with inflation, rendering our JAX transactional coins useless for day-to-day payments in the long run. Technical aspects aside, anchoring to BTC helps us to put some control on coin issuance. Indeed, we make it costly for miners to print JAX since they have to choose between minting BTC and JAXNET or JAX by sending their BTC and JAXNET to an invalid address.
Productivity gains in the chip manufacturing sector are substantial, much higher than the average gains in the economy. As you may know, our JAX coins are pegged to the hashrate of Bitcoin. If this cost decreases, that means that it is now cheaper to produce JAX coins. As miners now have an incentive to print more JAX, its market exchange rate might depreciate, thus breaking down our peg. To avoid such a scenario, we introduced a k-constant. This value ranges between 0 and 1 and is voted by miners during each epoch. The selected value at the protocol level is the median of the miner’s votes. K is then multiplied by the difficulty to determine the miners’ block reward on shards.
Technologically BTC and ETH have been proved difficult to scale. Anchoring Jax.Network to Bitcoin allows the latter to scale in a more sustainable way than Lightning and to have a network for daily payments with the same security level as Bitcoin. Besides all that, BTC is by default deflationary. People stand to hold deflationary assets and spend stable coins. Since JAX is stable in value, which is measured in the cost of computing power/energy, it should get mass adopted.
Jax.Network is an open-source platform that is published on GitLab, so anyone can make a contribution and use it.
JAX coins are only mined on demand. Their cost of production is tied to the cost of Bitcoin hashrate, putting a lower bound under which coins cannot be sold. We assume that miners are profit-motivated and would not sell JAX below its marginal cost of production. At the higher bound, miners’ economic incentives also play out. Indeed, if the market rate of JAX is increasing, they are better off printing JAX instead of JAXNET. JAX market rate will fluctuate within these lower and upper bounds, just like any fiat currencies. JAX coin issuance follows market dynamics, not some predefined and constraint algorithm.
The easiest way to transact using JAX coins would be to download our wallet application and use it for sending and receiving JAX. You can also use them for staking purposes as well as swap them for localized stablecoins on DeFi platforms and receive yield.
Existing cryptocurrencies suffer from the following problems: they are deflationary, they can’t scale, they’re not user-friendly. JAX coin doesn’t have these three limitations.
You can either mine them on your own or buy/sell them on DEXs and CEXs.
1) By becoming a miner
2) By becoming an exchange agent
3) By becoming a governor on the decentralized platform Jax.Money
4) By becoming a liquidity provider
5) By becoming a VRP token holder
In the future, you will be able to participate in programs where you can get JAX coins for free. We may set up a promotional faucet during the early stages of the network to give away some of our JAX coins for free. Follow our news and announcements.
If you decide to hold an asset in our network, you should hold JAXNET coins or Bitcoins instead. You shouldn’t hold JAX coins. JAX is a transactional coin and holding it does not provide any financial benefits. Hence, it will be wise to utilize JAX coins only for consumption purposes.
The core protocol requires an intermediate level of expertise to use the network, however, we will facilitate the creation of different user-friendly solutions in our ecosystem such as light wallets, physical cards, mobile-tap applications, etc. They will help non-technical users and newbies to use our network without the need to understand our core technology.
Yes, as long as you have liquidity in the network, you can join an exchange hub and stake your coins to facilitate cross-shard exchanges and earn exchange fees.
Beacon chain coins are an asset for people who wish to store value in our network and speculate on the value of Jax.Network. Beacon chain coins are deflationary and allow for only 10 transactions per second.
Shard chain coins are scalable and stable and hence mainly suited for consumption. They have no speculative value.
There are two coins in Jax.Network. The beacon chain coins which are more like an asset coin are called JAXNET and the shard chain coins which are used for transactions are called JAX. JAXNET has a fixed reward per block and JAX issuance only happens when miners forgo the Bitcoin and JAXNET block rewards. This is the only way to print more JAX coins, which hold only a transactional value directly pegged to Bitcoin hashrate.
The coins are printed by miners only when the expected profit of printing JAX coins is superior to the expected reward of Bitcoin and JAXNET blocks. The JAX coin is issued only when there is a transactional demand for it and hence supply follows demand.
Although Jax.Network is decentralized, it has a certain delay in the finality of the transactions performed in the network due to the inherent limitation of the consensus algorithm. To overcome this limitation, exchange hubs act as entities that can provide instant transaction facilities by absorbing the finality risk in exchange for a fee.
JAXNET is the Jax.Network beacon chain. Theoretically, anchoring to Bitcoin would be enough to ensure the expansion of the network. However, this would require the Bitcoin blocks to store certain data that is not useful for Bitcoin at all. For instance, the shard signaling system, for dynamic shard expansion or the k-coefficient will be in the beacon block header. Having this data on Bitcoin would force a hard fork. We want Bitcoin to stay true to itself, and for these practical reasons, it is necessary to have a beacon chain. Moreover, as Bitcoin block reward tends towards zero, transaction fees will increase. JAXNET coins do not have a capped supply, they will be used as a savings account on Jax.Network.
Jax.Network can potentially scale to unlimited throughput as long as there is a demand and sufficient network resources for it.
The value of JAX is derived from mining business efficiency, including the cost of mining equipment, the cost of electricity, and a bunch of other factors.
Haber-Stornetta Token (HST) is the smallest non-divisible unit of value on the beacon chain of the Jax.Network blockchain. Since WJXN token has no decimals, HST is required in order to deal with smaller units of WJXN for DeFi purposes. 1 WJXN = 10^8 HST. This unit has been named after the inventors of blockchain technology, Dr. Stuart Haber and Dr. W. Scott Stornetta, who introduced the concept of digital timestamping back in 1991. Their works have been referenced 3 times in the Bitcoin white paper.
Add hyperlink to https://wrapped.jax.net/hst.html to the first mentioning Haber-Stornetta Token (HST)
Requirements depend on the type of the node and the number of shards that it maintains. For example, the full shard node, which maintains a single Bitcoin node, 6 fully loaded shards and the beacon chain, has the same requirements as 5 full Bitcoin nodes working in parallel.
It depends on the transaction volume. Jax.Network doesn’t provide instant transaction finality as any other blockchain. We expect that a casual transaction will be included in the chain and get three-block confirmations in around a minute. However, it’s recommended to wait for more block confirmations when a huge sum of money is transferred through a single transaction.
If you need instant transactions, we recommend you to become a member of any exchange hub which will issue you instant transaction devices via physical cards or mobile tap for a fee.
Transactions in Jax.Network don’t reveal any data about participants except their public keys. It works similarly to Bitcoin and many other blockchains. However, Jax.Network doesn’t provide an option of untraceable transactions similar to the one used in Monero, ZCash, and other blockchains focused on privacy.
The emission of JAX is unlimited. However , the minting of new coins requires natural resources that are limited.
The emission of JXN is unlimited at a fixed rate of 20 JXN per beacon chain block after 5 years.However, at a certain point in the future, the impact of the 20 coins on the total supply will be negligible.
The network is secured by Proof of Work executed by miners of the Bitcoin network. Code wise, our system, therefore, relies on the well-known and secure code-base used in Bitcoin core. Check our GitLab, to review our code.
Jax.Network is the permissionless blockchain network based on the PoW consensus. Its decentralization is comparable to the decentralization of Bitcoin.
Jax.Network’s design is based on the SHA-256 Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm which includes a setting convenient for weak nodes so that they can manage their workloads by managing the number of shards they are participating in.
The Jax.Network mining reward system is flexible and balanced in terms that every participant is rewarded proportionally to his effort in maintaining the network across all the shards they are mining. Small mining farms with little bandwidth and storage and big mining pools can coexist in Jax.Network.
Jax.Network incorporates the idea of super-light FlyClient described in the paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/226.pdf by Bunz et al.
The super-light client reduces the volume of data required for synchronization to shard chains in Jax.Network.
The mining difficulty is calculated as the expected total number of hashes calculated by the whole network before somebody will find the block with a good hash. You can find the detailed description in our academic paper.
Since our system allows for merged mining, all the shards can share the same hashpower and hence making it difficult for a malicious miner to overpower a shard.
You can be an individual miner if you have access to a great amount of hashpower. However, if you don’t have a lot of hashpower, it’s recommended that you join a mining pool that will provide you with regular mining rewards in exchange for a fee. Also, our official mining pool is linked to our official exchange hub and can help you earn extra profit by also staking your tokens for the purpose of facilitating cross-shard transfers in our system.
Jax.Network uses the same hashing algorithm as Bitcoin, SHA-256. Anyone holding this type of rig can merge-mine our network.
Any SHA-256-compatible mining rigs will do the trick. The only difference is how efficient these rigs are, therefore, how profitable.
No. Merged mining in Jax.Network is designed to keep the balance between strong and weak nodes. Such design doesn’t cause the centralization of mining. To know more about our merged mining design, please read our academic paper.