The world's first quantum-safe payment channel network. Single-hop channels with Dilithium ML-DSA-44 signed state updates, running on Stagenet today.
Single-hop ELTOO payment channels are live on Stagenet with real L1 settlement, Dilithium-signed state updates, CTV + CSV covenant scripts, and QR-based peer exchange. Channel opening, off-chain payments, and cooperative closes are operational in SoquShield. No watchtowers required — ELTOO's state supersession eliminates the need for third-party monitoring. Multi-hop routing is the next engineering milestone.
Experience quantum-safe payment channels firsthand. Open SoquShield, scan a QR, and watch your first L2SOQ channel come to life.
Open SoquShield → L2 Lightning → Open Channel → paste this invite to open a channel with the Playground peer.
Single-hop channels are operational. Here's what we're building next to reach multi-hop payments.
Multi-hop atomic payments require adaptor signatures for trustless forwarding. Dilithium doesn't natively support this primitive. We're evaluating hash-based alternatives and lattice-compatible constructions.
Active ResearchDilithium signatures are 2,420 bytes each. ELTOO's update mechanism means only the latest state matters — old states are simply superseded, not accumulated. PAT batching on L1 settlement further reduces on-chain footprint.
Solved by ELTOOUnlike Bitcoin Lightning (LN-Penalty), Soqucoin uses ELTOO-style channels via CTV + CSV covenants. Any newer state supersedes any older state — no penalty transactions, no revocation secrets, no third-party monitoring infrastructure.
Eliminated by DesignRouting payments across multiple channels requires payment path discovery and fee negotiation. The gossip protocol must handle 1,312-byte public keys efficiently. Network topology design is in progress.
Design PhaseCovenant-native design. No penalty transactions. No watchtowers. Any newer state supersedes any older state.
Real numbers derived from measured cryptographic benchmarks, not theoretical maximums.
| PHASE | CHANNELS | AVG TPS/CH | NETWORK TPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stagenet (now) | 1–10 | 20 | 20–200 |
| Early Mainnet (Year 1) | 500–2,000 | 10 | 5,000–20,000 |
| Growth (Year 2–3) | 5,000–20,000 | 15 | 75,000–300,000 |
| At Scale | 50,000+ | 15 | 750,000+ |
Soqucoin's L1 foundation provides structural advantages no classical L2 can match.
| Funding Transaction | BTC: ECDSA → SOQ: Dilithium |
| State Updates | BTC: ECDSA → SOQ: Dilithium |
| Channel Model | BTC: LN-Penalty → SOQ: ELTOO |
| On-Chain Settlement | BTC: ECDSA → SOQ: Dilithium |
| L1 Block Time | BTC: 10 min → SOQ: 1 min |
| Channel Open | BTC: ~60 min → SOQ: ~6 min |
| Batch Settlement | BTC: N/A → SOQ: LatticeFold+ |
| Watchtowers | BTC: Required → SOQ: Not needed |
CTV + CSV covenants enable ELTOO channels from genesis. No penalty transactions, no revocation secrets — the simplest possible channel construction.
L1's audited batch verification infrastructure enables efficient settlement of multiple channel closes in a single proof (0.68 ms for 512 signatures).
HKDF key derivation is already powering channel funding, state signing, and peer exchange in the Stagenet prototype. No seed migration needed.
1-minute L1 blocks mean channel opens confirm in ~6 minutes (6 confirmations) and force-close CSV timelocks resolve in ~2.4 hours vs ~24 hours on Bitcoin.
Single-hop channels are live on Stagenet. Multi-hop routing and L2 mainnet deployment follow the L1 launch and security audit.
L2-ready wallet, HKDF key derivation, QR peer exchange, CTV + CSV covenant activations
Single-hop ELTOO channels with Dilithium-signed state updates, cooperative close, deterministic channel IDs
Payment routing, hash-based forwarding alternatives, network topology, fee market design
Genesis block, merge mining activation, exchange listings. L2 continues development on Stagenet.
External audit of channel protocol, force-close paths, covenant scripts, and wallet integration
L2SOQ activation on mainnet via BIP9 soft-fork. No hard fork required — covenant opcodes already active.
"We built a production L1 with native Dilithium signatures from genesis. Then we proved that quantum-safe payment channels aren't just theoretically possible—they work. Single-hop channels are live on Stagenet today with real ML-DSA-44 signed state updates, QR-based peer exchange, and L1 settlement. The first quantum-safe Lightning channel in the world didn't come from a research lab—it came from shipping code."
Track our progress on L2 development. We publish updates as we solve problems and hit milestones.