Welcome to Spectre

GhostDAG for scalability, SpectreX Algorithm for fair and decentralized mining. Future privacy with GhostFACE.

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Advanced blockDAG Technology - Spectre Network

PHANTOM Protocol + GhostDAG + GhostFACE = Spectre

Unleashing Speed, Security, and Decentralization

  • Technology: Spectre (SPR) is a DAG-based proof-of-work Layer 1 cryptocurrency built on Kaspa. It leverages the PHANTOM protocol, a generalization of Nakamoto consensus, and an innovative blockDAG structure. Unlike traditional blockchains that orphan parallel blocks, GHOSTDAG allows these blocks to coexist and orders them in the consensus. This approach enables instant confirmations, sub-second block times, and significantly enhances scalability, security, and decentralization.
  • SpectreX PoW Algorithm: SpectreX, based on AstroBWTv3, employs a unique three-step proof-of-work process with SHA-3, AstroBWTv3, and HeavyHash. It promotes fair, decentralized mining on ordinary computers. It is designed to be ASIC- and FPGA-resistant, making mining fair and accessible to everyone. As the world's first Rust implementation of AstroBWTv3 without external C dependencies, it uses only Rust crates for a fully native solution.
  • Future Privacy Features: Spectre is committed to delivering full privacy and anonymous transactions through the upcoming GhostFACE protocol, developed by a team of anonymous cryptographic researchers and engineers. The GhostFACE protocol will integrate Pedersen Commitments for seamless compatibility with Spectre's UTXO model, ensuring perfect transaction hiding, and ElGamal encryption for transaction signatures, enabling high TPS (transactions per second) and untraceable payments. Combining the PHANTOM protocol, GHOSTDAG, and GhostFACE, Spectre's vision is to become a true ghostchain—delivering fast, secure, and private transactions with no pre-mine or gimmicks, just pure performance and privacy. Contributions to GhostFACE development are welcome through anonymous PRs, with further details to be released in the future.
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~300 TPS

High Throughput

300 transactions per second with 1-second block times.

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Linear halving

Blockrewards decrease consistently each month. Loading halving info...

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Current Net Hash

Top-tier security with a robust, untraceable hashrate.

1.161 × 109

Max Supply

Fixed supply ensures long-term value and stability.

Spectre Network's Unique Features

Pioneering the Future of Digital Cryptocurrency

Instant Confirmation

Leveraging the GhostDAG protocol, Spectre achieves transaction visibility in 1 second and confirmation in an average of 10 seconds, vastly outpacing Bitcoin or Monero.

Enhanced Scalability

Spectre's blockDAG technology enables parallel transaction processing while solving the Trimlemma with no trade-offs to security or decentralization, unlike Proof-of-Stake networks.

Capped Supply

With a fixed total supply, Spectre creates a deflationary economic model, ensuring coin scarcity and supporting value appreciation over time.

Pruning

Pruning in Spectre reduces blockDAG size, preventing nodes from storing excessive data. With pruning, nodes need only ~3 days of history, enabling lightweight, decentralized nodes without large storage requirements.

Decentralized Mining

SpectreX uses the AstroBWTv3 algorithm to support decentralized, untraceable mining on CPUs, making it resistant to ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs.

Future Privacy

With the upcoming GhostFACE protocol, Spectre will enable fully anonymous transactions, enhancing user privacy and financial security.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions about Spectre

AstroBWT promotes anonymous mining through several key features:
  • Resistance to Specialized Hardware: AstroBWTv3 is designed to be resistant to ASICs, FPGAs, and GPUs, which means that it promotes mining on standard CPUs. This reduces the disparity in hashrate between different types of hardware, ensuring a more level playing field for all miners.
  • Hashrate Variation Minimization: By minimizing the variation in hashrate between different CPU generations and architectures, AstroBWTv3 ensures that no single type of CPU has a significant advantage over others. This further promotes decentralization and fairness in the mining process.
  • Hard to Trace Mining Activity: The algorithm makes it very difficult to trace which specific hardware mined a particular block. This is crucial for maintaining the anonymity of miners, as there is no clear evidence linking specific mining activities to individual pieces of hardware.
  • Enhanced Privacy with Pedersen Commitments: When used in conjunction with Pedersen commitments(scheduled for integration in Q4), which make the UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) model untraceable, AstroBWTv3 ensures that all transactions and mining activities remain private. There is no way to determine who did what, when, how many, or for how long.
These features collectively make AstroBWTv3 an effective algorithm for promoting anonymous and decentralized mining, ensuring privacy and fairness for all participants in the network.

We chose to fork Kaspa because it offers great speed and scalability. However, we wanted to enhance privacy features, which led us to integrate aspects from privacy-focused cryptocurrencies like Monero and DERO, combining the best of both worlds—speed from Kaspa and privacy from the others.

  • Welcome to the Rust-based implementation of the Spectre full-node and libraries: This release is a drop-in replacement for the Golang node and is now recommended for the Spectre network, offering enhanced performance and reliability. With Spectre on Rust, manual db downloads are no longer required.
  • Start the Node:
    • Download and unzip the latest binaries from our Rusty-Spectre.
    • Run the command: spectred --utxoindex.
    • Wait until you see the message 2024-06-18 20:30:45.630+02:00 [INFO ] Accepted block 59209d..., indicating the node is up and running properly.
  • Create a Wallet:
    • Run spectre-wallet to start the wallet.
    • Run network mainnet to configure the wallet for mainnet mode.
    • Run wallet create to generate a new wallet.
    • Secure your wallet's mnemonic, which will be displayed under "Your default wallet account mnemonic" (12 words).
    • Copy the wallet address under "Your default account deposit address" (starting with "spectre:...").
  • Importing Your Existing Wallet: Note: There is a minor bug that requires manual configuration to connect. Ensure your node is started with spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten-borsh=127.0.0.1:19110.
    • Start spectre-wallet.
    • Type: server 127.0.0.1:19110 and then connect. This will connect the wallet to the locally running full node.
    • Type wallet import and follow the on-screen instructions.
    • Initially, you will be prompted to enter a "Default Account Title" (wallet name).
    • (Optional) Create a phishing hint.
    • (Required) Set a wallet password.
    • Enter your mnemonic passphrase (12 or 24 words).
  • Begin Mining:
    • Download and extract the latest Rust miner binaries from our GitHub or from our download folder.
    • Start mining by executing: spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:YourWalletAddress --threads X, where X is the number of CPU cores you want to use.
    • You can operate a single node within the network and direct all miners to it. To do this, set the --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 option in the node (using: spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110), as the default is set to 127.0.0.1.
    • Now, in the miner, you need to specify where Spectred (the full node) is running. To do this, add the --spectred-address X.X.X.X option (where X.X.X.X is the local IP address of the machine running your node). For example: spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:YourWalletAddress --threads X --spectred-address X.X.X.X.
    1. Support Development: If you wish to sponsor the development, it is highly appreciated to dedicate 1% of the mining time to the devfund address by running: ./spectre-miner --mining-address spectre:YourWalletAddress --devfund=spectre:qrxf48dgrdkjxllxczek3uweuldtan9nanzjsavk0ak9ynwn0zsayjjh7upez

    For detailed instructions and more information, visit our GitHub repository.

    If you need help setting up the miner, join our Discord.

    Thank you for joining our network and enhancing its growth and stability!

    For HiveOS, you can now use the official wrapper for the Rust based Spectre-Miner! Check out the HiveOS JSON File for more information.

    You need to run the node on one of your available systems (it can be another HiveOS rig) and point your workers to it.

    1. Choose a rig where you want to run the node (make sure it's stable if you connect multiple workers to it).
    2. Start a screen session with screen -S spr_node
    3. Create a folder with mkdir spr_node (you can name it anything you want).
    4. Navigate into that folder with cd spr_node
    5. Download the spectre node using: wget https://github.com/spectre-project/rusty-spectre/releases/download/v0.3.16/rusty-spectre-v0.3.16-linux-gnu-amd64.zip
    6. Unzip the file with unzip rusty-spectre-v0.3.14-linux-gnu-amd64.zip
    7. Change directory to the bin folder with cd bin/
    8. Start the node with: ./spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110
    9. The node is synced once you see a message like "Accepted block 168648fb1523843..."
    10. Exit the screen session with Ctrl+a+d
    11. Now you can leave the shell session and start importing the flightsheet (follow the instructions from the screenshots)

    You can download the hiveos.json file from the following link: HiveOS JSON File

    If you need help setting up the miner, join our Discord.

    HiveOS Step 1 HiveOS Step 2

    For mmpOS, you can now use the official wrapper for the Rust-based Spectre-Miner! Check out the mmpOS JSON File for more information.

    You need to run the node on one of your available systems and point your workers to it.

    To get started with Tnn-Miner, you'll need a wallet and a synced, running node. You can follow steps 1-3 from the above guide. Step 4 is different:
    1. Download and Set Up the Stratum Bridge: You can find the Stratum Bridge here: Spectre Stratum Bridge. Alternatively, the built binaries are available here. Launch the Bridge by running ./spr_bridge (or spr_bridge.exe for Windows).
      If the bridge runs on the same machine as the node, the default config.yaml will work. If the bridge and node are on separate machines, update the config.yaml file by editing spectred_address: localhost:18110 and replacing localhost with the IP address of the machine running the Spectre node.
    2. Install and Start the Miner: Download the miner from Tnn Miner on GitLab. Alternatively, the built binaries are also available here.
    3. Start Mining: To begin mining, execute the following command: ./tnn-miner --spectre --daemon-address 127.0.0.1 --port 5555 --wallet spectre:x --threads x Replace 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the machine running the bridge if it's on a different machine. Replace x with your wallet address and the number of threads you wish to use. Additionally, you need to set the --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 option in the node. Use the following command to do this: spectred --utxoindex --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 By default, the node listens on 127.0.0.1. Setting --rpclisten=0.0.0.0:18110 ensures the node can communicate when running on a different system than localhost.

    For Pool Mining: You can choose one of the available pools from MiningPoolStats. Here is an example configuration for tw-pool:
    tnn-miner --spectre --daemon-address spr.tw-pool.com --port 14001 --wallet spectre:X --threads X --no-lock --worker X
    Replace spr.tw-pool.com with the pool's address, spectre:X with your wallet address, and X with the appropriate values for your setup.
    Tnn-Miner is a high-performance, unofficial miner developed by Trinton. You can view the project on GitLab. If you'd like to support Trinton's work, consider making a donation to his Spectre address: spectre:qr5l7q4s6mrfs9r7n0l090nhxrjdkxwacyxgk8lt2wt57ka6xr0ucvr0cmgnf

    To estimate the daily coin emissions in a GhostDAG, we can utilize the approximate block time of 1 second. Given that there are 86,400 seconds in a day (24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds), we can calculate the total number of blocks mined per day.

    Once we know the daily block emissions, we can estimate our share of the network's mining rewards.

    • If the network hash rate (nethash) is 100 KH/s and your miner's hash rate is 10 KH/s, then your miner contributes 10% to the total network hash rate.
    • Consequently, you would receive 10% of the blocks mined daily.
    • Let's say that emissions are 100,000 SPR per day, your network share is 10%, so 100,000 SPR × 0.1 (10%) = 10,000 SPR per 24 hours.

    The calculator retrieves network data such as the total network hashrate and current blockreward from the Spectre Rest API to perform these calculations.

    Keep in mind that this calculation is an estimate. Your actual block rewards can vary due to factors such as luck, network latency, and other conditions. This script provides a basic estimation of potential earnings.

    Mining Reward Calculator

    Results

    Roadmap

    Mapping Our Future Enhancements

    Q2 2024
    Mainnet Launch - Completed Q2 ✔
    Launch of the Spectre Network mainnet, enabling full-scale operations, featuring 1-second block times and integrated SpectreX mining. Untraceable Mining enabled and multi-core CPU miner integrated.
    Q2 2024
    Exbitron CEX Listing - Completed Q2 ✔
    Spectre is now available for trading on Exbitron as of May 07, 2024, in the SPR/USDT pair.
    Visit Exbitron
    Q2 2024
    Spectre Desktop GUI wallet - Completed Q2 ✔
    Spectre Desktop wallet availability. This will be the last release of the legacy Golang and Node.JS components. Next Station of our high speed train is the Rust drop in replacement with SpectreX for the Spectre node daemon.
    Get the Latest Spectre Desktop Release
    Q2 2024
    NonKYC CEX Listing - Completed Q2 ✔
    Spectre is now available for trading on NonKYC as of May 15, 2024, in the SPR/USDT pair.
    Visit NonKYC
    Q2 2024
    Release of SpectreX Rust Miner - Completed Q2 ✔
    High-performance CPU miner for mining Spectre. Supports Linux (HiveOS & mmpOS), Windows, and macOS.
    Get the Latest Spectre-Miner Release
    Q3 2024
    SpectreX in Rust - Completed Q2 ✔
    Rust implementation of the AstroBWTv3 algorithm to optimize mining efficiency. Rusty-SpectreX
    This is the world's first AstroBWTv3 implementation entirely in Rust, without external C dependencies, relying solely on Rust crates.
    Q3-4 2024
    Rust Node - Completed Q2 ✔
    Implement the Spectre full-node and its ancillary libraries in Rust as a recommended drop-in replacement for the Golang node. It introduces developers to the possibilities of Rust within the Spectre network's context, offering enhanced performance and reliability.
    Get the Latest Rusty-Spectre Release
    Q3-4 2024
    Deprecate Golang Codebase - Completed Q2 ✔
    -The Golang Spectred version has been replaced by the stable Rust version. Please switch to the Rust version as soon as possible: Rusty-Spectre.
    -Bugs and feature requests for the Go version are no longer supported. Use the Rust version for issue reporting.
    -Only spectrewallet in Go is maintained. All other contributions to the Go repository will be closed.
    Q3 2024
    Derivation Path Registration - Completed Q3 ✔
    Spectre has officially registered its unique derivation path 123456 and has been added to SLIP-0044.
    Q3 2024
    Rusty Spectre - Expanded Platform Support - Completed Q3 ✔
    Rusty Spectre now supports additional platforms, improving accessibility and contributing to decentralization:

    Linux (Dynamically Linked):
    linux-gnu-aarch64 (arm64)
    linux-gnu-powerpc64 (ppc64)
    linux-gnu-powerpc64le (ppc64le)
    linux-gnu-riscv64 (riscv64)
    linux-gnu-amd64 (x86_64)

    -Linux (Statically Linked):
    linux-musl-aarch64 (arm64)
    linux-musl-amd64 (x86_64)

    Windows:
    windows-gnullvm-amd64 (GNU ABI via Clang/LLVM)
    windows-msvc-amd64 (Microsoft ABI, requires MSVC runtime)

    macOS:
    macos-amd64 (Intel-based systems)
    macos-aarch64 (Arm-based systems, e.g., M1, M2)
    Review the changes on Github
    Q3 2024
    Spectrum Mobile Wallet Release - Completed in Q3 ✔
    The first public release of Spectrum (spectre-mobile) with full Spectre Network support is now available! New features include the addition of network stats, a mining reward calculator, and the introduction of both a standard dark theme and an AMOLED dark theme.
    Get the Latest Spectrum Release
    Q3 2024
    Xeggex CEX Listing - Completed Q3 ✔
    Spectre is now available for trading on Xeggex as of August 13, 2024, in the SPR/USDT and SPR/BTC pair.
    Visit Xeggex
    Q4 2024
    Block Explorer Updates - Completed Q4 ✔
    Features include a CPU Stats Page displaying CPU hashrates, core counts, and profitability. Realtime Spectre DAG visualization using vis-network and a Node Map showcasing node distribution and decentralization via Leaflet with OpenStreetMap. The map highlights node versions, types (Rust/Go), and geographic locations while obfuscating IP addresses to preserve privacy.
    Spectre Explorer
    Q4 2024
    Rusty-Spectre v0.3.16 Release - Completed Q4 ✔
    Featuring upstream merges from Rusty-Kaspa with significant improvements for Spectre. Highlights include:
    -Mempool updates and tweaks
    -wRPC v2: integrations, TypeScript-v2, resolver-v2
    -TN11 fixes
    -Nodes now query all seeders when connections are low
    -Improved mass calculator
    -New RPC Methods: get_sync_status(), get_connection_count(), get_system_info(), get_metrics(), get_current_block_color()
    -Replaced OpenSSL with rustls + ring + webpki_roots for better compatibility across architectures (tested on aarch64, amd64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, riscv64gc)
    -CLI and wallet fixes
    -Parallelized MuHash calculations for enhanced performance
    -WASM SDK improvements
    -Updated mimalloc fixing Debian compilation issues
    Testnet DNS Seeders 🧪
    -Testnet-10 (1bps):
    testnet-dnsseed-1.spectre-network.org
    testnet-dnsseed-2.spectre-network.org
    -Testnet-11 (10bps):
    testnet11-dnsseed-1.spectre-network.org
    testnet11-dnsseed-2.spectre-network.org
    Rusty-Spectre v0.3.16
    Q4 2024
    Spectrum - Mobile Wallet Updates - Completed Q4 ✔
    -Adds support for BIP39 passphrases
    -Now supports both legacy (used in Spectre Desktop and Webwallet) and Spectre standard (implemented in Rusty Spectre and Spectred) derivation paths.
    -Replace-by-Fee (RBF): Users can now increase transaction fees to boost priority and speed up confirmation, useful during network congestion.
    -Fee Estimates: Utilizing the new getFeeEstimate RPC call, the wallet gets fee estimates for high, normal and low priority based on transaction mass and base fees.
    -Improved network stats and compatibility for Windows and Linux builds.
    -Windows and Linux builds.
    Get the Latest Spectrum Release
    Q4 2024
    Testnet Launch - Completed Q4 ✔
    The Spectre Testnet-10 has been launched to serve as a dedicated environment for implementing and testing privacy features. This testnet will enable comprehensive evaluation and refinement of privacy functionalities before their mainnet deployment. Testnet-10 Explorer
    Q4 2024
    Spectre Faucet - Mainnet & Testnet - Completed Q4 ✔
    The Spectre Faucet is now live, enabling users to request SPR without the need for registration. It operates through a designated wallet address, where Spectre can be sent or mined. If the faucet has sufficient funds, it will distribute SPR to any address provided.
    -Daily Withdrawal Limit: Set to 2 SPR per IP address.
    -The faucet provides liquidity for testing new features, wallets, or address verification.
    -Users can support the faucet by mining or sending small amounts of Spectre to its wallet.
    Mainnet Faucet
    Testnet Faucet
    Q3-4 2024
    Transition to Rust - In progress... 🛠
    Complete the migration of all components including Stratum Bridge and Seeder from Go to Rust to ensure unified performance improvements and maintainability across the entire ecosystem.
    Q4 2024
    Privacy Protocol - In progress... 🛠
    Integration of the GhostFACE protocol to provide full non-disclosable privacy and anonymous transactions, using advanced cryptographic techniques like Pedersen Commitments and ElGamal signatures.