Frequently asked questions

Tenrai is a new blockchain that combines proof of work and proof of stake. It is fast, fully post-quantum secure and runs on Traidag, our own technology with parallel blocks. Its coin is TRAI.

TRAI is the coin of the Tenrai network. You pay with it, pay the network fees with it and stake it to earn more, and miners earn it for every block. One TRAI has eight decimal places, so the smallest amount is 0.00000001 TRAI.

Open the Tenrai Wallet on your phone or computer and create a wallet in a minute. Write down your 24 words, then share your address to receive TRAI. There is no account to sign up for.

No. Tenrai, its Traidag block structure and its TenQ proof of work are designed and built from scratch.

Yes. The node with its wallet, miner and stratum bridge, the SDK and all reference code are published under the Apache License 2.0. Anyone can read the code and help build Tenrai.

TRAI is not listed on an exchange yet. As soon as it is, the exchanges will be listed on the Get TRAI page. Until then you can mine TRAI, get paid in TRAI or earn more by staking.

At most 200,000,000 TRAI. The maximum is part of the protocol rules that every node enforces.

Every day new TRAI go to the miners and stakers, half each. The first day pays 540,000 TRAI, and every day pays 0.3 % less than the one before, which keeps rewards flowing for about 34.6 years.

No. The protocol sets nothing aside for developers: every new TRAI goes to the miners and stakers who keep the network running.

Yes. Anyone can burn TRAI by sending it to the burn address, which no key can spend, and the network takes it out of the supply for good. Half of every fee for a TSP-2 stealth payment is burned as well.

You do. Your coins are held by your own keys, not by a bank, an exchange or us: nobody but you can freeze or move them.

They are your recovery phrase: with them you restore your wallet, with all its coins, on any device. Write them on paper and keep them private, because whoever knows them can move your coins.

Restore your wallet on a new device with your 24 words. Your coins live on the network, not on the phone, so everything is there again, your Trai Messenger chats included.

The Tenrai Wallet runs on phones and computers and installs like an app. A desktop app and a command-line wallet for Windows and Linux are coming soon on GitHub, and the paper wallet keeps TRAI fully offline.

Final for good after 2.5 to 5 seconds. Blocks follow each other every 20 milliseconds, so a payment is on its way faster than the blink of an eye.

Less than 0.001 TRAI for a simple payment, whatever the amount. The fee goes to the miners and stakers, half each.

No. Once a payment is final it stays final: no chargebacks and no rollbacks. That makes TRAI safe to accept, for shops and for everyone else.

Normal payments are pseudonymous: addresses carry no names, but anyone can see the payments between them, as on most blockchains. For private payments there is TSP-2, the Tenrai Stealth Payment, which keeps the amount and the recipient's address off the chain.

Yes, with the Trai Messenger in your wallet. Every message after the first is encrypted end to end, and there is no messenger server: the Tenrai network itself carries them.

Mine it with your graphics card, your CPU or right in your browser, or stake the TRAI you hold with a validator. Half of every block reward and every fee goes to the miners, the other half to the stakers.

Choose a validator in your wallet and stake 1,000 TRAI or more. Rewards arrive once a day as normal coins, free to spend or to stake again, and your coins stay yours: the validator can never move them.

Yes, whenever you want. Unstake it, and after 10 days you withdraw it to your wallet as normal coins. Nobody has to approve it.

No. The Tenrai Miner uses graphics cards and processors, and the browser miner runs on any device, even a smartphone. Mine on the Tenrai Community Pool or on your own node.

Within minutes. A block's reward reaches the miner's address about 4 minutes after the block, and pools pay their miners in small, regular amounts.

Large quantum computers are expected to break the signatures that protect most blockchains today. Tenrai signs everything with ML-DSA-65, a NIST standard made to withstand them, from the very first block.

Miners produce the blocks with TenQ proof of work, open to anyone. Validators, backed by everyone who stakes with them, make the blocks final. Both share the new TRAI and the fees, half each.

The last TRAI is paid out after about 34.6 years. From then on, miners and stakers earn the network fees.