Money secured
by work done
with light
Ownership built to outlast quantum computers, and a security budget that could pull a new kind of computer into existence.
What the name means
Proof-of-work money is secured by computation. Laser asks what that computation should be. PhotonHash builds mining around exact, dense matrix arithmetic, the operation optical processors are designed to perform. The ledger follows the theme: its smallest unit is the photon.
Rules anyone can check
A fixed cap, whole-number accounting and chain selection by accumulated work. Every node enforces all of it during block validation.
- SUPPLY CAP
- 137,000,000 LASER
- ATOMIC UNIT
- 1 LASER = 10⁹ photons
- BLOCK TARGET
- 10 seconds
- CHAIN SELECTION
- Most accumulated work
Signatures for a quantum future
Most cryptocurrencies use elliptic-curve signatures, which a large quantum computer could break. Laser authorizes every account with ML-DSA-65, standardized in NIST FIPS 204.
A reason to build machines that compute with light
Mining rewards go to whoever produces valid work, on any hardware. Miners drift toward the lowest total cost per valid proof. If photonic hardware reaches that point for PhotonHash, mining would create steady, permissionless demand for it, and that demand could fund better machines.
To hold, a photonic miner must win on complete-system measurements: modulation, detection, conversion, control, calibration, hashing, recheck and invalid trajectories.