A capital-markets asset, signed for the next era.
BTX is an AI-native proof-of-work chain built to settle value for what comes next: post-quantum signatures protecting funds in production today, security denominated in the compute the AI era runs on, and a public settlement floor designed to plug into the financial system — from bank-native dollars to institutional clearing to this desk. This page explains the asset in plain language and shows you the ways in.
What is BTX?
The thesis, in four steps
Four claims, each with its evidence beside it. If you only keep one: the migration deadline is federal, and BTX is already past it.
Nearly every major chain, Bitcoin and Ethereum included, protects funds with elliptic-curve signatures. A sufficiently large quantum computer breaks that scheme. NIST standardized the replacements in 2024; moving an incumbent chain onto them is a coordination effort measured in years.
U.S. guidance deprecates classical signatures by 2030 and disallows them by 2035. No major incumbent chain has an activated migration.
BTX ships lattice-based post-quantum signatures in production, on a Bitcoin-Knots codebase: the UTXO model, a fixed issuance schedule, and conservative relay policy, signed for the era everyone else still has to migrate to.
- signature scheme
- ML-DSA-44 · FIPS 204
- signature size
- 2,420 bytes (ECDSA: ~71)
- status
- live on mainnet
- block height
- 199,294 and counting
BTX's AI-native proof-of-work is dense matrix multiplication, the operation GPUs and AI accelerators are built for. That makes its security spend measurable against Bitcoin's in dollars, and gives the asset a modelled value anchor no order book can fake.
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Capital that treats quantum risk as real will look for assets already secured against it. BTX today carries 4.0× more security-equivalent compute per dollar of market value than Bitcoin — the asymmetry early capital looks for.
2.57% of Bitcoin’s security-equivalent compute, carried on 0.644% of its market value.
model figures are estimates from btxprice.com, not advice and never desk prices · see the live data
What BTX is
Take Bitcoin's monetary discipline, re-sign it for the quantum era, and denominate its security in the compute that powers AI. Four properties define the chain — everything else is Bitcoin heritage, kept deliberately boring.
Lattice-based signatures from the family NIST standardized in 2024, live on mainnet today. Funds on BTX simply are not exposed to the elliptic-curve break that hangs over every other major chain.
Dense matrix multiplication — the exact operation GPUs and AI accelerators are built for. GPU-native, ASIC-resistant, and denominated in the compute the AI era is built on.
A fixed schedule of 20 BTX per block, on Bitcoin's UTXO model with Knots-lineage relay policy. No committee decides supply, no foundation holds a mint key. The schedule is the promise.
Blocks arrive roughly every 90 seconds, so confirmations accumulate about seven times faster than Bitcoin's ten-minute cadence. Finality you can wait for in one coffee, not one meeting.
The open mining floor
Bitcoin's mining moved behind ASIC datacenter walls a decade ago; the era when a person could secure the network from a desk ended with it. BTX reopens that floor — its AI-native proof-of-work is built for the hardware people already own, and the roadmap makes hashpower worth more than the block reward alone.
MatMul work favors the FP32 throughput of gaming and workstation GPUs. There is no ASIC to buy and no ASIC moat to climb over.
The full block reward goes to whoever does the work, on a fixed schedule. A young network means the floor is genuinely open.
Run the node, point it at your GPU, and you are securing the chain and earning its issuance at once. Downloads and docs at btx.dev.
mining rewards vary with network compute and luck — treat it as participation, not yield · btx.dev
The long path
Today BTX is the settlement floor, and this desk is where it trades. The development team's published roadmap builds a dollar-liquidity engine on top of it — bank-native dollars, an institutional clearing chain, a backed settlement leg — each layer routing real demand down to the asset. Their stated return is BTX appreciation alone: no gas toll, no stablecoin float.
A multi-bank wrapper around one-day certificates of deposit: a dollar that stays a bank deposit while it moves in programmable markets.
in developmentAn institutional clearing chain where solvency is a condition of block validity, checked every block — and validator seats are won by BTX mining work.
testnet 2026A one-to-one BTX-backed settlement unit. The rule that it can never be unbacked is enforced in consensus, not policy.
ships with EVXDeliberately narrow, fully transparent, post-quantum. It does one thing: settle. Every layer above it settles down to this one.
live todayper the EVX & USTD whitepaper (June 2026) — roadmap, not live product; the full paper is in the library below
How to get in.
Ways in
Exposure, information, issuance, or infrastructure — pick the relationship you want with the asset. They compound: most people who run it end up trading it.
Fund an account with USDC and place a private order. Nothing to sign; withdraw to an address you verify.
Open an account →The network's compute, its Bitcoin-security-parity value, and the model price, refreshed continuously.
See the data →Point a gaming GPU at the chain and earn issuance directly. No ASIC, no pool required.
btx.dev ↗BTX is open source. Run a node, verify for yourself, or build against the chain.
github.com/btxchain ↗Zero to filled, in three moves
The same path whether you're an individual or a fund: no wallet to set up, no seed phrase to guard, nothing to sign. Most accounts go from first visit to a resting order inside ten minutes.
Sign in with a one-time code. Add and verify the address that withdrawal requests are restricted to.
Deposit USDC to buy, or BTX to sell, to a deposit address that's yours alone. Credited once final on its chain.
Side, size, limit. The desk crosses it within your limit and settles the match on its ledger; you're emailed when it clears.
assets held by the desk under chain-specific custody controls · the mechanics in full · how the desk works
Size, quietly.
The desk fills block-size interest in one private order: your size and limit stay off any public book, and matched trades post directly to the desk’s ledger. Because the reference figures are published and model-based, you can mark a position without moving a book or tipping a counterparty. Programmatic access for funds and brokers is in design.
The sources, and staying current.
The library
Don't take this page's word for anything — the primary sources are here, published by the BTX and EVX teams. Start with the specifications if you read one thing; the weekly desk report will land here too.
- BTX SpecificationsThe canonical paper: BTX as a peer-to-peer computational settlement system.PDF · 185 KB
- Post-Quantum Reference Asset FrameworkA model SEC/CFTC policy and examination package using BTX as the post-quantum digital commodity reference.PDF · 350 KB
- EVX & USTD WhitepaperThe clearing, collateral, and liquidity layer being built above BTX.PDF · 427 KB
- btx.dev ↗The BTX developer portal: releases, downloads, and node documentation.site
BTX, weekly
One short email a week: the network numbers, releases, and what changed. No noise, unsubscribe any time.
Read the latest issuePlain answers
The questions everyone actually asks, answered without hedging.
- Where does BTX come from?
- It is mined, like Bitcoin: 20 BTX to whoever does the proof-of-work for each block, on a fixed schedule. Nobody can issue more.
- Who holds my funds while I trade?
- The desk does, from deposit to withdrawal. Your balance is credited once a deposit is final on its chain. Withdrawal requests go only to verified addresses and remain subject to chain, custody, and desk-health checks.
- Is BTX private?
- The chain is transparent, like Bitcoin. What’s private is your trading on the desk: your orders, sizes, and fills are never shown to anyone else.
- Do I need a wallet?
- No. You sign in with your email, and the desk manages deposit addresses for you. To take coins off the desk you withdraw to any address you’ve verified, including your own node’s.
- What are the risks?
- BTX is a young network with a small float, so prices can move fast, and the figures on this page are model estimates, not guarantees. Trade only what you can afford to hold through volatility.