# Laser — agent guide

Laser is an experimental proof-of-work currency with post-quantum accounts and a research program toward photonic mining. Shadownet is experimental; its coins have no monetary value.

## Reading the site

The website uses JavaScript for its visual presentation. To read without a browser, use the Markdown versions below, generated from the same page sources at build time. Each HTML page advertises its Markdown equivalent in a rel="alternate" link in the document head. Static documents do not contain a live network snapshot.

- [Page index](https://laser.cash/llms.txt)
- [Complete website text](https://laser.cash/llms-full.txt): all 10 canonical pages in one file, with source URLs.
- [Sitemap](https://laser.cash/sitemap.xml)
- [Publication feed](https://laser.cash/blog/feed.xml)

## Pages

- [Laser — Post-quantum photonic cash](https://laser.cash/index.md): Proof-of-work money with post-quantum accounts from the first block, and a mining function built for the hardware that comes next. HTML: https://laser.cash/
- [Vision — Laser](https://laser.cash/vision.md): The Laser vision: post-quantum ownership, proof of work, and a measurable path toward photonic mining. HTML: https://laser.cash/vision
- [PhotonHash — Laser](https://laser.cash/photonhash.md): PhotonHash construction, specifications, benchmarks, and the qualification path for photonic proof of work. HTML: https://laser.cash/photonhash
- [Mine — Laser](https://laser.cash/mine.md): Install Laser Core for Windows, create an encrypted wallet, and start mining on the experimental Laser Shadownet. HTML: https://laser.cash/mine
- [Blog — Laser](https://laser.cash/blog/index.md): Protocol definitions, measurements, adversarial results and network observations from Laser Research. HTML: https://laser.cash/blog/
- [Shadownet: First Public Execution of the Laser Protocol — Laser](https://laser.cash/blog/shadownet-first-public-execution/index.md): A technical account of Shadownet, the first public execution environment for Laser consensus, post-quantum transactions, PhotonHash mining, and network instrumentation. HTML: https://laser.cash/blog/shadownet-first-public-execution/
- [Photonic Cash for the Next Era of Compute — Laser](https://laser.cash/blog/photonic-cash-for-the-next-era-of-compute/index.md): Two bets behind Laser: post-quantum ownership and photonic proof of work. The evidence, design intentions, and results that would change our mind. HTML: https://laser.cash/blog/photonic-cash-for-the-next-era-of-compute/
- [Disclaimer — Laser](https://laser.cash/disclaimer.md): Risk disclosures for Laser, Shadownet, mining, post-quantum accounts, and photonic proof-of-work research. HTML: https://laser.cash/disclaimer
- [Terms of use — Laser](https://laser.cash/terms.md): Terms for using laser.cash, its publications, public interfaces, and links to the open-source Laser project. HTML: https://laser.cash/terms
- [Privacy notice — Laser](https://laser.cash/privacy.md): How laser.cash handles website requests, analytics, external services, communications, and public blockchain information. HTML: https://laser.cash/privacy

## Live chain data

The [Laser Chain Explorer](https://explorer.laserchain.org/) uses JavaScript for its interface and exposes the underlying data as read-only JSON. Its [agent guide](https://explorer.laserchain.org/agents.md) documents how to read every explorer view without executing JavaScript, including routes, limits, units and freshness. Start with [the tip](https://explorer.laserchain.org/api/tip), then query the matching block, transaction and account endpoints. Report the snapshot timestamp and height with current figures.

## Interpretation

- 1 LASER = 1,000,000,000 photons. Keep photon amounts as exact integers; JavaScript Number cannot safely represent every balance.
- Active consensus, archived experiments, research candidates and future design intentions are distinct. Read the current PhotonHash qualification record before describing a photonic advantage as demonstrated.
- Preserve the dates, authors, conditions and limitations of publications. Cite canonical HTML URLs when quoting page content.
- This guide describes public website content. It is not a repository instruction file and does not grant permission to operate wallets, mine, sign, spend or publish.

## Project sources

- [Laser Core](https://github.com/photonicmoney/laser-core)
- [PhotonHash](https://github.com/photonicmoney/photonhash)