Frequently Asked Questions¶
General¶
Is Soqucoin a fork of Dogecoin?¶
No. Soqucoin is based on Dogecoin Core but has its own genesis block, its own address format, its own cryptographic primitives, and its own emission schedule. Every line of signature code has been replaced. ECDSA is gone entirely, replaced with NIST FIPS 204 (ML-DSA-44) lattice-based signatures.
What makes Soqucoin "post-quantum"?¶
Every transaction on Soqucoin is signed with ML-DSA-44 (Dilithium), a lattice-based signature scheme standardized by NIST in August 2024. Classical blockchains use ECDSA, which a quantum computer running Shor's algorithm can break in polynomial time. Soqucoin has zero legacy cryptography. No ECDSA anywhere in the signing path.
What about other post-quantum blockchains like QRL or QAN?¶
Several projects have explored post-quantum cryptography. Soqucoin's differentiator is that it runs Scrypt proof-of-work with AuxPoW merge mining, so the hardware that mines Litecoin and Dogecoin mines SOQ from the same work, with no extra electricity or hardware. It also implements NIST FIPS 204, the finalized standard, natively from the genesis block.
Is there a premine or team allocation?¶
No. Every SOQ is mined through proof-of-work. Zero premine, zero ICO, zero team tokens. The Soqucoin Foundation mines on the same terms as every other miner.
Mining¶
What hardware do I need?¶
Any Scrypt ASIC or GPU. The same hardware that mines Litecoin and Dogecoin mines SOQ. See the Hardware Guide for the full list.
How do I start mining?¶
Join SOQUPOOL. Apply for an account (the Bronze starter tier needs no identity check or approval), point your miner at your closest regional address (stratum+tcp://us., eu. or asia.soqupool.com:3333) with the other two as Pool 2 and Pool 3, and set your worker name. The Pool Mining Guide has step-by-step instructions.
Can I mine SOQ, LTC, and DOGE at the same time?¶
Yes. That's merge mining (AuxPoW). SOQUPOOL handles it automatically. You submit work once and earn on all three chains. Zero extra electricity cost. See Merge Mining.
What is the block reward?¶
100,000 SOQ per block during the first 250,000 blocks. The reward halves at blocks 250,000, 500,000 and 750,000 (each epoch is about 174 days), and from block 1,000,000 a perpetual 2,500 SOQ tail applies. See Tokenomics for the full schedule.
Tokenomics¶
Is ~47 billion SOQ actually "scarce"?¶
We do not describe it as scarce. SOQ emits about 46.875 billion in its first four epochs, roughly 1.9 years, then a perpetual tail of 2,500 SOQ per block, about 1.31 billion a year, which is a falling share of supply: roughly 2.8 percent in the third year and lower after that. There is no hard cap and no premine. The schedule is a consensus rule in the node software. See Tokenomics.
Why did you change the emission schedule before mainnet?¶
Because the time before mainnet was the only honest time to change it. Nothing was live, no holder was affected, no history was rewritten. The original schedule was inherited from the Dogecoin lineage. Once hard finality let us secure the chain without a massive perpetual subsidy, we moved to a leaner, front-loaded schedule and locked it. Changing emission after launch would have been the problem. Getting it right before launch was just doing the work properly.
Could you change the emission again after launch?¶
Emission is a consensus rule in the node software. Now that mainnet is live, changing it would require a coordinated network upgrade that every node operator independently chooses to run. That's the same bar as any consensus change on any chain. There is no admin switch. The schedule is locked precisely so it doesn't move, and the time to get it right was the window before mainnet. That window closed at launch, on 13 October 2026.
Wallet & Addresses¶
What does a Soqucoin address look like?¶
Soqucoin addresses use Bech32m encoding and start with sq1p on mainnet. Example (shortened):
What wallet should I use?¶
SoquShield is the official Soqucoin wallet, on Android (Google Play) and iOS (TestFlight, while the App Store listing completes review). It generates ML-DSA-44 keys on your device and creates new wallets on mainnet.
For developers, the TypeScript SDK generates keys and signs transactions in the browser.
pSOQ¶
What is pSOQ?¶
pSOQ is a token on Solana. The path from pSOQ to SOQ was a one-time window, 29 September to 5 October 2026, in which holders acted from their own wallets; the network wrote the result into block 1 of mainnet on 13 October 2026 (70 outputs, 328,627,412.935409 SOQ). The window closed and does not repeat. There is no bridge and no deposit address, and pSOQ is not a wrapped or redeemable form of SOQ. The technical notice, the published tool and every result are at soqucoin.org/migration and nowhere else.
Can I move between pSOQ and SOQ today?¶
No. pSOQ became SOQ once, in a one-time window from 29 September to 5 October 2026, from holders' own wallets. The network wrote the result into block 1 of mainnet on 13 October 2026, and the window does not repeat. There is no bridge, no swap and no deposit address, and pSOQ is not a wrapped or redeemable form of SOQ. The technical notice, the published tool and the final list with its hash are at soqucoin.org/migration; nothing published anywhere else is official. SOQ-TEC is post-quantum custody and cross-chain settlement software for regulated custodians, exchanges and issuers, who operate it under their own licences. Soqucoin Labs demonstrates it on test networks only.
Security¶
Has the code been audited?¶
Halborn completed a Phase 1 audit of the Soqucoin protocol, and all Phase 1 findings were resolved. A Phase 2 audit covering USDSOQ and the covenant opcodes is scheduled before those features activate on mainnet, so treat those specific features as pending audit rather than fully audited today.
What is "hard finality" and how does the 288-block rule work?¶
Soqucoin enforces a consensus rule (nMaxReorgDepth) that rejects any chain reorganizing more than 288 blocks (about 4.8 hours) deep. Once a transaction is buried past that horizon, it cannot be reversed by any amount of proof-of-work. The network refuses the reorg by rule, not by economics. Full mechanism and tradeoffs: Chain Finality.
Aren't you attackable during the ~4.8-hour window? Isn't that worse than Bitcoin?¶
Honestly, inside the window, yes. Soqucoin is a small merge-mined chain, and like every small merge-mined chain, recent blocks can be reorganized by a large enough hashpower rental. We don't hide that. But compare the end state. Bitcoin has no hard finality. After "6 confirmations, about 1 hour" your transaction is only probably irreversible, and a powerful enough attacker can always reorg deeper. It's just expensive. After Soqucoin's 4.8-hour horizon, your transaction is provably irreversible. No hashpower reverses it, ever. We trade a longer window for an absolute guarantee at the end.
The practical rule is the one every chain already uses. Wait for finality (288 confirmations) before settling large value, and use more confirmations for bigger amounts inside the window. And the deep-reorg attack that finality eliminates, rewriting a large exchange deposit, is only worth doing once SOQ is valuable and liquid. By that point the door is already closed and committed hashrate has grown. Security scales with the attack value over time. That's the design, not an accident.
What happens during a network partition?¶
If the network splits for longer than the finality horizon (about 4.8h), each side finalizes its own tip and the two cannot automatically reconverge. By design, neither will reorg past its horizon. This is the deliberate tradeoff of any hard-finality rule. It chooses consistency (no rewrites) over availability (no stalls) under partition. Recovery is a coordinated decision, which is why reliable node connectivity matters. Documented openly in Chain Finality.
Can the chain be censored or halted?¶
Finality prevents theft (rewriting settled history), not disruption. A hashpower majority could censor or stall block production temporarily, which is true of essentially every small proof-of-work chain. The priority for a payments chain is that settled coins can't be stolen, and that is exactly what the finality rule guarantees. Liveness strengthens as committed merge-mining hashrate grows.
How does a brand-new node know it's on the right chain?¶
A node syncing from scratch, or returning after being offline more than ~4.8h, relies on the normal most-work rule while it catches up. Then the finality rule re-engages. For high-value operation, such a node should confirm its recent tip against a trusted reference (a known-good recent block hash) before treating new transactions as final. This property is called weak subjectivity, and it is common to all finality systems. See Chain Finality.
Isn't block production controlled by the Soqucoin Foundation?¶
At launch the Foundation runs baseline hashrate, the way many young chains bootstrap. But SOQ is open merge-mining. Any Litecoin or Dogecoin miner can produce SOQ blocks at no extra cost, and the Foundation mines on identical terms, with no privileged rewards, no premine, and no special consensus rights. As independent merge-mining grows, block production decentralizes, and finality already protects settled history regardless of who mines.
What patents does Soqucoin hold?¶
Soqucoin Labs Inc. has filed 21 provisional patent applications covering post-quantum consensus, lattice-based privacy, batch signature verification, stablecoin architecture, and compliance engines. These protect the novel cryptographic techniques while the underlying NIST standards remain open.