What is Anemos?

Anemos (ἄνεμος — Greek for wind; ticker ANM) is a layer-1 blockchain that pairs a deliberately minimal, BFT-final proof-of-stake core with two things you cannot bolt onto an existing chain: a fair launch and a native, protocol-level stablecoin.

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.

Why Anemos forked

Fair launch. No premine, no treasury balance, no foundation or team reward, and no supply cap. New coins are minted every block by a smooth, decaying emission schedule with a small perpetual tail, so the protocol funds itself — and its reserve — forever.
A native stablecoin. Because the core rejects unknown transaction types and has no VM, trust-minimized DeFi cannot be added as a contract. So Anemos adds a Djed/Zephyr-style overcollateralized stablecoin as native consensus logic — a module alongside transfer, bond, and withdraw.

How it works, briefly

Overcollateralized & self-stabilizing. Mint stablecoin only while the post-mint collateral ratio stays above a floor; the reserve is funded by block emission and routed by a collateral-ratio EMA; “golden-age” interest is paid via an O(1) rebase index only when the system is strongly overcollateralized, and it is self-throttling.
A consensus-embedded oracle. Each block a rotating committee subset signs the ANM/USD price into a block-body section the existing certificate already attests. The accepted price is a slow TWAP median with a per-block move cap. Deviation is slashed; absence never is — so flaky or low-resource nodes stay safe.
Light enough to run anywhere. Every per-block addition stays O(1) and integer-only, with the goal of running a full staking node on Android.

Status

A global testnet is live across four continents, with a block explorer and an off-chain oracle price feeder. The native stablecoin and oracle are part of the base protocol from genesis — no enabling flags. Read the whitepaper for the full design, math, and risk register.