PRE-MAINNET · DEVNET RUNNING · APACHE-2.0

256 partitions.
One validator
set.

Yoalto executes native payments across 255 parallel partitions, each with its own accounts and its own block stream, coordinated by a single validator set. Payments need no cross‑partition coordination at all — and a validator is a pod cluster over shared FoundationDB, so throughput grows by adding pods rather than by buying a bigger machine.

Protocol at a glance
Partitions256 · chain 0 + 255
Target block time500 ms
Epoch length172,800 views (~24 h)
ConsensusHotStuff · 2-chain commit
Fault tolerancef < n/3
Validator signaturesBLS (blst)
Account signaturesEd25519
StorageFoundationDB · JMT
Native tokenYOA
LicenseApache-2.0
Partition address space · 0x00 → 0xFF chain 0 is the system chain · how routing works →
chain 0 — system 0x01 → 0xFF — native payments, shaded by address
Why Yoalto

Four properties that fall out of the architecture.

01

Parallel by partition

Every account has a deterministic home partition, derived by hashing its identity — computable by any client, assigned by no sequencer. Native payments execute there and nowhere else, so 255 partitions advance without coordinating.

02

Validators scale sideways

A validator is not one machine. It is a pod cluster sharing a FoundationDB cluster, with the partitions distributed across pods. More capacity means more pods, and FoundationDB handles replication and tiered storage underneath.

03

Compact verifiability

Validator-set changes travel as signed EpochCerts — BLS quorum certificates that aggregate to one 48‑byte signature no matter how many signers. A late-joining node rebuilds the entire validator-set history from certs already in each partition's block stream.

04

Crypto-agility by construction

An account's identity is a claim hash, frozen when the account opens and kept separate from the key that signs for it. Rotating to a different signature scheme is one transaction, and it disturbs neither sends nor receives.

Architecture and security model →

The numbers that are actually fixed.

set in code · not measured
256 partitions chain 0 + 255 payment
500 ms target block time per view, per partition
24 h epoch length 172,800 views
48 B aggregate signature BLS · any number of signers

There is no published throughput figure for Yoalto, because none has been measured on a network. When there is one, it will arrive with the harness and the hardware beside it.

Build on Yoalto

Anchor a document. Verify it yourself.

The toolchain is Go. Bring up a devnet, record a file's hash on chain, and check the inclusion proof — the SDK verifies proofs client‑side, so nothing in this loop asks you to trust the node you queried.

~/yoalto — zshdevnet
#build the CLI from source
$go build -o yoalto ./apps/cli
#a keystore is an identity; the identity fixes your partition
$./yoalto key generate --out dev.key
$./yoalto key show --key dev.key
~claim 0x9f3c…a71d
~partition 0x2d
#anchor a file's SHA-256 on chain, then check it locally
$./yoalto attest invoice.pdf --key dev.key
$./yoalto prove invoice.pdf --issuer 0x9f3c…a71d
~✓ inclusion proof verified
~→ verified by the SDK, locally — the node is not trusted
$
Status

What is built, and what is not.

pre-mainnet · three private dev clusters
Shipped · 7 of 13Designed · 6 of 13
CapabilityStatusNotes
Native coin (YOA) Shipped send, receive, change
Fungible tokens Shipped deploy, mint, burn, send, receive
NFTs Shipped collection deploy, mint, transfer, receive, burn
Attestations Shipped single and batched, hash-chain accumulator
NFT marketplace Shipped fixed-price listings, offers, royalty enforcement
Proof of stake Shipped epoch rotation, DKG group key committed on chain
Multi-node consensus Shipped HotStuff, end-to-end across partitions
Validator registration Designed genesis validators only; needs proof-of-possession
Slashing Designed two reasons defined; fault detection not built
Validator rewards Designed fees are burned today
Order-book DEX Designed schema only, engine deferred
EVM on chain 0 Designed smart contracts and governance
Public testnet Designed private dev clusters today

Yoalto has no mainnet and no public testnet. There is no token sale, no market, and no published tokenomics — the native token exists in the protocol as gas and stake, and nothing beyond that has been decided.