A small team building a chain meant to last decades.
We are pre-mainnet, in stealth, and building in public — slowly, deliberately, and out of order. This page is the only place on the site where we talk about ourselves instead of the chain.
Why we are doing this
We started Asentum because three things became impossible to ignore at the same time. The first: NIST standardized a post-quantum signature scheme in August 2024 and almost nobody in the blockchain industry started building with it. The second: a decade of smart contract bugs has not made smart contracts meaningfully safer to write — most of the same classes of bug are still possible, and the language hasn't changed. The third: "decentralization" on the chains we admired had quietly become "ten data centers in three regions", and the people we knew who used to run nodes from home had stopped.
None of those problems is unsolvable. Each of them is solvable individually. We don't think anyone has put them in the same chain. So we're trying.
We are a small team. We are not announcing names yet — partly because stealth, partly because the work has to speak first. The full specification is on the research page and the thesis is the closest thing we have to a why-statement. If you want to know more, write to hello@asentum.com — we read everything.
The team
The Asentum team will introduce itself publicly later in stealth. We would rather you decide whether the work is interesting before you decide whether the people building it are interesting.
In the meantime: read the thesis, read the research, and tell us what's wrong with it. That's the introduction we want to start with.