Frequently Asked Questions

“Anemos” comes from the Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos), meaning wind. The coin’s ticker is ANM, and its smallest unit is the Gust (1 ANM = 1,000,000,000 Gust).

Anemos is an open-source, fair-launch, layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain. It pairs a deliberately minimal, BFT-final consensus core with two things you cannot bolt onto an existing chain: a fair launch (no premine, no treasury, no supply cap) and a native, protocol-level overcollateralized stablecoin backed by a consensus-embedded price oracle. Read more →

Yes — and we say so openly. Anemos is a respectful fork of Pactus, a lightweight, instant-finality, sortition-based PoS chain with no virtual machine and a small set of fixed transaction types. We keep that minimal, secure core (and Pactus’s copyright) and add new consensus logic on top: fair-launch tokenomics, a native stablecoin, and an embedded oracle.

Two of Anemos’s goals are only reachable at the base layer:

Tokenomics. A genesis allocation and emission schedule are fixed in the protocol; they cannot be changed from a contract running on top. Anemos launches with no premine, no treasury balance, no foundation reward, and no supply cap.

A native stablecoin. A chain that rejects unknown transaction types and has no VM cannot host trust-minimized DeFi as a contract. So Anemos adds its stablecoin as native consensus logic — a module alongside the existing transfer, bond, and withdraw logic — not as a smart contract.

No. Anemos had no ICO, no premine, no treasury balance, and no team or foundation allocation. Every coin is minted on-chain, block by block, by the emission schedule — there are no insider accounts.

Bitcoin secures its network with Proof of Work (mining). Anemos uses Proof of Stake: instead of mining, validators stake coins and vote on blocks, reaching BFT instant finality with near-zero energy use. Anemos also carries a native overcollateralized stablecoin, which Bitcoin does not.

Both are Proof of Stake, but they differ in approach. Running an Ethereum validator requires staking 32 ETH and a general-purpose virtual machine secures arbitrary contracts. Anemos has no fixed stake requirement and deliberately has no VM — its minimal, fixed transaction set keeps a full node light enough to run on a phone, and DeFi is provided by native protocol logic rather than contracts.

Validators process transactions, propose blocks, and vote to finalize them — securing the network and keeping it decentralized. They stake their own coins as a security deposit and earn the block reward for their contribution. Read more →

Anemos is a true Proof of Stake blockchain, so there is no cap on the number of validators in the network. A fixed-size committee is responsible for creating blocks at any given time (75 validators on mainnet, 11 on the testnet), and the committee membership changes over time through sortition. Read more →

The minimum stake is 1,200 ANM on mainnet (800 ANM on testnet) and the maximum stake per validator is 60,000 ANM (both supply-indexed — they rise with the coin supply). If you want to stake more, you can run additional validators. Running multiple validators keeps the network more decentralized and helps maintain its stability. Don’t want to run a validator at all? You can pool-delegate from as little as 500 ANM to an operator’s validator instead — see “Can I stake without running a validator myself?” below. Read more →

Anemos is engineered to run anywhere — every per-block addition stays O(1) and integer-only, so a full node runs on commodity hardware, including a full node on an Android phone. The Android app embeds the real node and lets you choose Full or Pruned at setup; a pruned (light) node is the default on a phone, but a full node is selectable. Recommended minimums:

• CPU: 2 cores
• RAM: 2-4 GB
• Storage: 40 GB (Full Node) or 1 GB (Pruned Node)
• Network: a stable internet connection

Capping the stake per validator enhances decentralization and prevents any single validator from gaining too much voting power over the committee. The maximum stake is a consensus parameter and can be changed in the future through consensus among validators. Read more →

Yes. The Anemos node software lets you run up to 32 validators on a single machine. This has a negligible effect on storage, CPU, and networking, and lets you distribute your stake across several validators — useful when you want to stake more than the per-validator maximum. Read more →

Yes — through pooled staking. You can delegate from as little as 500 ANM to an operator’s validator pool and earn a share of the block reward, without running a node or putting up a full validator’s stake. Your coins stay under your own key, your rewards are claimable anytime and are never slashed, and only your staked principal is ever at risk. You can find an operator in the explorer marketplace and track every position in the “My Delegations” view in your wallet. Read more →

Yes. Pooled rewards are held separately from your staked principal, so slashing can never touch your rewards — you can claim them at any time. Only the staked principal is ever at risk, and if a pool is slashed the loss is shared fairly (pro-rata) across everyone in it, the operator included. You withdraw your principal after the standard validator unbonding period.

Run a validator, put up your own ANM as skin in the game, and set a commission of up to 20% of the rewards your pool earns — the rest accrues to your delegators. Delegators can then join your pool from 500 ANM each, and your pool fills up over time until it reaches the validator stake cap. Read more →

When a validator proposes a valid block that the committee finalizes, it earns the block reward. Anemos has no premine and no treasury to pay rewards from — the reward is freshly minted each block by the emission schedule and goes to the proposer (and its delegate), with a health-dependent slice routed to the stablecoin reserve. There is no separate foundation cut. Read more →

The block reward is minted on every block by a Kaspa-style decaying emission schedule with a small perpetual tail — it is not a fixed flat amount. Early blocks mint more; the per-block reward decays smoothly over time toward a steady tail so the protocol funds itself, and its reserve, forever. Read more →

A fixed-size committee creates blocks (75 validators on mainnet, 11 on the testnet), and committee membership rotates over time. Roughly every 10 seconds a committee member known as the proposer collects valid transactions into a block and shares it with the rest of the committee. When more than two-thirds of the committee’s voting power signs the block, it is committed and its transactions execute. The proposer also folds the latest oracle price into the block. This repeats every block. Read more →

Validators join the committee through sortition. At each block a validator generates a verifiable random number weighted by its stake, and if selected it can send a sortition transaction with the proof. Once included, the validator replaces the oldest committee member. Read more →

The proposer inside the committee is selected based on the order in which members entered the committee — a first-come, first-propose rotation. Read more →

Finality is immediate. Anemos is BFT-final: once a transaction is in a committed block it is final and cannot be reversed. There are no reorgs and no probabilistic confirmations to wait on. Read more →

The native stablecoin needs a trustworthy ANM/USD price, so Anemos builds a price oracle directly into consensus. Each block a deterministic, rotating committee subset signs the price into a block-body section that the existing block certificate already attests — no separate oracle transactions. The accepted price is a slow time-weighted average of the committee median with a per-block move cap (~3.5h time constant, ~8h to settle). Deviation from the honest median is slashed; absence is never slashed, so flaky or low-resource nodes stay safe. Read more →

Anemos has no fixed supply cap. New coins are minted on every block by a decaying emission schedule with a small perpetual tail, so the supply grows slowly and predictably forever. Each ANM divides into one billion Gust (1 ANM = 1,000,000,000 Gust).

There is no premine in the traditional sense — no insider allocation, no treasury balance, no foundation or team reward, and no VC or community pre-sale. Genesis carries only a transparent fair-launch bootstrap allocation distributed across many placeholder accounts whose keys derive from a public, documented seed, so it is a disclosed fair launch rather than an insider premine. After genesis, supply grows purely by per-block minted emission (the decaying schedule with a small perpetual tail). The genesis file will be published for inspection once the source is open-sourced post-launch.

Anemos keeps a special Treasury sentinel address, but unlike traditional chains it holds zero balance. It is the on-chain source that mints each block’s subsidy — coins are created there with no sender debit and credited to recipients — rather than a pre-funded pool that gets drawn down. No one holds its keys. Read more →

Every block, the emission schedule mints that block’s reward. The whole reward goes to the proposer (and its delegate), except for a health-dependent slice routed to the stablecoin reserve. This is “coin minting”: the total ANM supply grows gradually as new blocks are added — there is no foundation or treasury cut. Read more →

A portion of each block’s emission can be routed to the stablecoin reserve to build a collateral buffer. The slice is health-dependent: it builds the reserve at a base rate when collateralization is comfortable and tapers toward zero as the ratio weakens. A hard validator-share floor guarantees proposers always keep the majority of every block’s reward, protecting consensus liveness.

It is a Djed/Zephyr-style overcollateralized stablecoin baked into the protocol — not a smart contract. You mint the USD stablecoin against the reserve and redeem it back to ANM, all at the oracle price. The reserve is partly funded by block emission and tracked by a collateral-ratio EMA. Both the USD stablecoin and the Reserve Coin (the junior tranche) are first-class, peer-to-peer transferable assets — you can send them to anyone, just like ANM.

Yes. The USD stablecoin and the Reserve Coin are native, fully transferable assets — not contract balances locked to a mint/redeem flow. A single Transfer carries any of the three assets (ANM, USD stablecoin, or Reserve Coin) between accounts, so they move peer-to-peer with the same instant finality and tiny fees as ANM.

Minting is allowed only while the post-mint collateral ratio stays above a floor — the anti-death-spiral rule lifted from Djed’s formally verified bounds. When the system is strongly overcollateralized, surplus emission can be paid to stablecoin holders as “golden-age” interest through an O(1) rebase index; that payout is self-throttling, because paying it lowers the ratio and ends the payments.

We are honest about them. (1) The oracle’s trust ceiling is honest-majority-of-stake — a USD peg needs a USD price, and a new chain has no native source. (2) Reflexivity: the reserve is ANM-denominated, so its USD value tracks ANM’s price; ratio floors dampen but do not remove this feedback. (3) Bootstrapping: at genesis ANM is worth little, so the reserve backs little — the chain and fair launch come first, and the stablecoin is tuned in over time. Read more →

A transfer transaction moves value from one account to another. It is multi-asset: a single Transfer carries an asset selector, so the same transaction moves native ANM, the USD stablecoin, or the Reserve Coin between accounts. The fee is always paid in ANM. Read more →

A bond transaction lets you become a validator by staking coins. The amount of stake determines your voting power in consensus. Read more →

A sortition transaction lets a validator enter the committee after being selected by the sortition process. Read more →

An unbond transaction withdraws stake from a validator — either the full amount or an optional partial amount, so you can free up part of your stake without fully exiting. Pooled delegators undelegate their own principal the same way, and it becomes withdrawable after the unbonding period.
Note: stake that is fully unbonded no longer takes part in consensus or earns block rewards. Read more →

A withdraw transaction lets a validator withdraw its staked coins from the network after a waiting period that follows unbonding. Read more →

Yes. Because the stablecoin is native protocol logic, Anemos adds dedicated transaction types to mint and redeem the stablecoin, mint and redeem the Reserve Coin, and redeem recovery tokens during a debt-restructuring event. In the wallets these five operations are grouped under a single Convert action, while ordinary sends of any asset use the same Transfer with an asset picker. Read more →