Open-source code for a private, infinitely scalable, PQ-secure L1 layer
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new Layer 1 blockchain designed to solve what I see as the fundamental trilemma in the space: achieving strong privacy, infinite scalability, and post-quantum security simultaneously. The result is NERV: a private-by-default, horizontally scalable blockchain that replaces Merkle trees with 512-byte neural state embeddings, proven inside Halo2 circuits and attested in hardware enclaves. Key technical innovations: Neural State Embeddings Instead of Merkle trees, the entire state of a shard is compressed into a 512-byte vector using a transformer…
Open-source code for a private, infinitely scalable, PQ-secure L1 layer launched on February 1, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,386 of 16,628 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
NERV blockchain project. Contribute to nerv-bit/nerv development by creating an account on GitHub.
✅ Privacy by default – No addresses, balances, amounts, or metadata ever exposed on-chain. 🚀 Infinite horizontal scalability – >1 million sustained TPS with no theoretical upper bound via dynamic neural sharding. 🛡️ Post-quantum security from genesis – Full NIST-standard lattice-based cryptography (Dilithium-3, ML-KEM-768). 🧠 Endogenous intelligence – Nodes are rewarded for useful-work federated learning that perpetually improves the network's own encoders and predictors. We replace traditional Merkle trees with compact, homomorphic neural state embeddings (512-byte latent vectors from a transformer attested in hardware enclaves). Combined with 5-hop TEE-bound anonymous routing,…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new Layer 1 blockchain designed to solve what I see as the fundamental trilemma in the space: achieving strong privacy, infinite scalability, and post-quantum security simultaneously. The result is NERV: a private-by-default, horizontally scalable blockchain that…
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