Research Papers
High-performance blockchain with multi-consensus architecture and post-quantum security
Lux Industries, Inc.
Codifies the eight design principles that have guided every architectural decision in the Lux Network since its inception in 2020. These are not technical specifications but constraints on the solution space: every protocol, API, and cryptographic choice in the Lux ecosystem is evaluated against them before it ships.
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A chain-first architecture in which the blockchain is the authoritative source of truth for all asset ownership and transfer records, while traditional databases serve only as re-derivable read caches. This inverts the conventional pattern in which a centralized database is authoritative and the chain is an afterthought settlement layer, and formalizes the design as a state machine: an append-only chain of signed transactions plus a local cache (SQLite in development) that is always reconstructable from on-chain state.
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Corona is Lux’s foundational post-quantum threshold signature — a two-round Module-LWE scheme over R_q = Z_q[X]/(X^256+1), instantiated at module rank 7 (a genuine 8×7 matrix A over R_q with a 48-bit modulus q) and using Module-SIS commitments. Any t-of-n subset of validators co-signs a block in one message-independent precomputation round plus one signing round, then a non-interactive combine, with no party ever holding the full secret key. Corona’s contribution is making the two-round lattice threshold work for public, permissionless validator sets that change over time: leaderless distributed key generation with no trusted dealer, dynamic resharing, and on-chain Q-Chain ceremony binding. Derived from the Ringtail line of work (IACR ePrint 2024/1113), it is the intra-lattice diversity leg of the Aurora certificate profile (Pulsar ‖ Corona) under Quasar. Corona and Pulsar are sibling Module-LWE schemes that differ by parameter regime and lifecycle — not by module rank.
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A hybrid post-quantum consensus architecture for DAG-native chains that separates fast operational finality from durable post-quantum finality. Validators emit Photons over a Nebula DAG substrate; classical BLS aggregates form Beams for low-latency confirmation, while ML-DSA attestations and Pulsar lattice-threshold Pulses provide post-quantum finality. Prism binds all certificate lanes to a single transcript, and Quasar reaches Horizon finality when the bound lanes verify. A lifecycle framework (LSS) manages threshold-key generations and resharing for dynamic validator sets.
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Specifies Magnetar, the hash-based post-quantum signature primitive of the Lux Polaris certificate profile. Its headline construction is per-validator standalone: each validator holds an independent FIPS 205 SLH-DSA keypair, giving conservative, hash-based post-quantum security with no shared trusted setup.
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cevm executes the entire block-processing pipeline (transaction validation, signature recovery, Block-STM parallel execution, opcode dispatch, and state-root computation) on GPU hardware. Measured on an Apple M1 Max, cevm reaches 85.9M opcodes/sec on the GPU EVM kernel (4.85x over CPU), 20.9 Ggas/s on the C++ interpreter with full state (5.1x over Go), and a 7.1x speedup on parallel ecrecover. Beyond EVM acceleration, it provides GPU-native implementations of all three NIST post-quantum FIPS standards.
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The production specification for QuasarSTM 4.0, the GPU-native ordered MVCC substrate underpinning Lux Nova (linear) and Nebula (DAG) execution modes. QuasarSTM 4.0 closes the gaps left by 3.0, replacing placeholder verifiers with real cryptographic certificate lanes and completing the full EVM opcode set, the lane-clock fast path, the semantic-reducer validation tier, and the multi-GPU commit server.
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High-performance blockchain with multi-consensus architecture and post-quantum security