The software that runs the network
Qortium Core is free, open software that anyone can run. Each person who runs it helps carry the network, so it lives on people’s own computers instead of a company’s servers — with no one in the middle.
Run it and you become part of the network yourself. The more people run it, the stronger and more independent the network gets.
Most people won’t have to install Core directly — Qortium Home can run a node for you. Core is for running a node on a server or headless.
How it starts
Anyone can join from day one — you don’t need to buy anything to take part.
No coin to start
A new Qortium chain begins with no coin of its own — none made or handed out in advance.
Take part without owning a coin
With no coin, a transaction is secured by a small bit of work from your own device, so anyone can join in. You never have to buy anything.
A coin only if the community adds one
Anyone can create their own assets freely. Whether the chain ever gets a coin of its own is an open decision for the community — not something baked in.
Built to be understood
The software is open for anyone to read, run, and check. It grows from the Qortal lineage, with the workings explained in plain language.
Connecting, even behind a router
To help run the network, your computer needs to reach other people’s — and let theirs reach yours. On a lot of home internet, your router quietly blocks those incoming connections, so you can join but others can’t find you. Qortium can now route around that, and you choose how.
Classic connections
Nodes talk to each other directly. Lightest on your computer and your connection — a fine default when your node is already reachable.
Most connected (with I2P)
Qortium can also connect through I2P, a free, volunteer-run privacy network that carries traffic through layers of relays. It tunnels past a blocking router, so you can find and help peers even when incoming connections are closed — and the whole network gets better connected.
Most private (I2P only)
Send every connection through I2P and your real internet address is never exposed to peers. The strongest privacy, in exchange for a bit more overhead.
Who decides where it goes
There is no head office calling the shots for everyone. Some of what follows works today; some is still being designed by the community.
Reputation built into accounts
Accounts earn reputation that shapes their part in minting and voting, helping keep things fair — see Trust.
Updates the community approves
Updates are off by default and only apply after the community approves them, so no one can push software to your computer silently.
Decided together, today
Right now a small group of developers and the people who use Qortium discuss and decide things together. Users actively guide the developers, and the group is open for anyone to join.
Voting on the people who sign updates
Being designed: an on-chain system where trusted admins sign network updates and the community can vote those admins in or out, kept fair by trust scores. The exact rules are still being worked out.
Changes by vote, not by force
The aim is for important network settings to change through on-chain votes instead of forced restarts — another piece still being shaped.