Atho: The Post-Quantum Proof-of-Work Payment Network for the Future

Atho.io Atho: The Post-Quantum-Aware Proof-of-Work Payment System Ticker: ATHO Consensus: Proof of Work PoW Hash: SHA3-384 Transaction Signatures: Falcon-512 Model: Public UTXO payment chain Implementation: Rust-first Block Target: 100 seconds Decimals: 8 Smallest Unit: atom, where 1 ATHO = 100,000,000 atoms Starting Subsidy: 20 ATHO Halving Interval: 1,250,000 blocks Tail Reward: 0.3125 ATHO per block from Era 7 Hard Max Supply: None under the current soft-cap tail model Introduction Atho is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on payments, designed with long-term verification in mind, straightforward ownership, and post-quantum transaction authorization. The aim here isn't to be just another smart-contract platform or to mimic every feature of existing networks. It's a more focused approach: to create a public UTXO payment network that everyone users, miners, node operators, wallet developers, and future exchanges can easily grasp, verify, and use without extra complications. This system runs on SHA3-384 for Proof-of-Work and hashing commitments. It employs Falcon-512 signatures for transaction authorization. So yeah, Atho isn't using those traditional elliptic-curve signatures that a bunch of older crypto platforms are built on. Just to clarify, this doesn't mean any of those existing chains are broken right now or that they're totally immune to future cryptographic threats. It's simply a design choice aimed at lessening the long-term reliance on classical elliptic-curve methods for transaction security. Atho operates as a public UTXO chain, meaning every coin is an unspent transaction output.