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 it inherits security from the ~1.5 PH/s global Litecoin/Dogecoin mining network from day one. It's also the first chain to implement NIST FIPS 204 (the finalized standard, not a draft) 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. Create an account, point your miner's stratum to stratum+tcp://stratum.soqupool.com:3333, 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. Rewards halve every ~174 days (4 epochs), then a perpetual 2,500 SOQ tail. See Tokenomics for the full schedule.
Tokenomics¶
Is ~47 billion SOQ actually "scarce"?¶
We don't call it scarce, and the supply count isn't the point. The number of coins is arbitrary. What matters to a holder is the inflation rate and the distribution. SOQ emits ~46.875B in its first ~1.9 years, then a small, declining perpetual tail (2,500 SOQ/block, roughly 1.31B per year and falling as a percentage of supply). Long-run inflation lands in the low single digits, comparable to Solana's floor or a central-bank target, with a permanent miner floor so block production is always funded. It is not a fixed-cap "digital gold" model and doesn't pretend to be. It's a low-inflation, spendable currency with no premine. See Tokenomics.
Why did you change the emission schedule before mainnet?¶
Because pre-mainnet is the only honest time to change it. Nothing is live, no holder is affected, no history is 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 be the problem. Getting it right before is just doing the work properly.
Could you change the emission again after launch?¶
Emission is a consensus rule, not a setting. After mainnet, 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 pre-mainnet window. That window closes at launch.
Wallet & Addresses¶
What does a Soqucoin address look like?¶
Soqucoin addresses use Bech32m encoding. On the current stagenet network they start with ssq1p; mainnet addresses will start with sq1p. Example:
What wallet should I use?¶
SoquShield is the official Soqucoin wallet, available on iOS (TestFlight) and Android (Google Play). It generates ML-DSA-44 keys natively and supports both SOQ (L1) and pSOQ (Solana).
For developers, the Playground gives you in-browser wallet generation and signing.
Bridge & pSOQ¶
What is pSOQ?¶
pSOQ is the Solana-based representation of SOQ, pegged 1:1. It exists to provide liquidity and DeFi composability while the L1 matures. One pSOQ is always redeemable for exactly one SOQ.
How do I bridge between pSOQ and SOQ?¶
The SOQ-TEC Gateway moves value between Solana (pSOQ) and the Soqucoin L1 (SOQ). The gateway uses patent-pending quantum-safe custody technology.
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 10 provisional patents 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.