Whitepaper
Amaroo’s Consensus Strategy: Ultra Terminum
How independent chains can secure one another by counting each other’s work, and how that becomes a consensus strategy for a whole network.
Read the whitepaperYour assets,
every chain,
through one network.
Trade native coins, stablecoins and tokenized assets across chains from your wallet, on-chain and with no custodian. Underneath is one network, designed so its chains secure one another and it grows as chains join.
A network of chains that read each other’s blocks inside their own consensus. Proofs from other chains flow in; assets stay on their own chains.
- Each stream is one chain’s blocks, read into Amaroo.
- Each mark is a block header. Payments on that chain are proven against it.
- Each line is a reflection between two of Amaroo’s chains.
The internet didn’t replace networks. It connected them. Amaroo does the same for assets and value.
- The native coin settles on its own chain. The stablecoin settles where it was issued. Amaroo never holds either.
- The stablecoin settles where it was issued. The gold settles on its issuer’s chain. Amaroo never holds either.
- The gold settles on its issuer’s chain. The property settles on its platform’s chain. Amaroo never holds either.
- The property settles on its platform’s chain. The native coin settles on its own chain. Amaroo never holds either.
Collaboration, at heart.
Proof of Reflection and Ultra Terminum are designed so that completely independent chains are able to share and record information about each other to secure one another.
Proof of ReflectionVerification is in consensus.
Amaroo other chains’ blocks, which lets it prove and on those chains. No oracles, no bridges, no committee in the middle.image - to record and check another chain’s block headers inside your own blocks.proof of payment - A proof, checked against a chain’s imaged block headers, that a payment happened on that chain.proof of reserve - A proof, checked the same way, that funds are held at an address on that chain.
Imaging foreign chainsAssets are exchanged through Amaroo, not held by it.
No custodians, no one signing on your behalf: peer-to-peer matching and settlement at the protocol level.
How a trade worksChains that secure each other.
Fig. 1
One chain reads another.
A chain records and checks another chain’s inside its own blocks. This is called imaging, and it runs one way.block header - A block’s summary: it commits to every transaction in the block and links to the block before it.
Two chains count each other’s work.
Each records the other’s headers and counts the other’s work when it picks its history. Recording alone adds no security: the counting is designed so that rewriting one means out-working both. This is Proof of Reflection.
Many chains become one network.
Every pair reflects, and the network is designed to grow stronger as it grows. Foreign chains like Bitcoin and Ethereum are imaged one way, with nothing changed on their side. This is Ultra Terminum.
What it makes possible
Trade across chains without handing your assets to anyone.
Trade a native coin for a stablecoin on another chain. Each side settles on its home chain.
DEX infrastructureProve on one chain what happened on another.
A payment or a reserve on one chain, proven on another, with no oracle in between.
Proofs of payment and reserveLet software settle for itself.
Agents and applications pay, check and settle across chains with proofs, not trusted parties.
For agentsWho it’s for
- Traders and market makersRebalance across every chain. Pay no one in the middle.
Order books priced against ; each leg settles on its home chain.ROO - The network’s token. It pays fees, and every order book is priced against it.
- InstitutionsEvery chain, under your controls.
You can exchange stablecoins and native coins across chains; each side settles at home, with your rules on top.
- Asset issuersIssue once. Trade on every chain. Settle by proof.
Imaging lets Amaroo prove payments and reserves on your asset’s chain.
- AgentsSettlement an agent can verify.
Agents can pay and get paid on any connected chain, and check every proof themselves.
- BuildersBuild on the network.
Dapp-chains run their own rules and consensus, with their headers imaged onto the simplex.
Research
Patent
US 12,706,764, granted.
Secure consensus between cooperating chains: the method behind Amaroo’s network.
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