Source and research
Rust protocol candidates, test fixtures, design records, an ML-DSA-65 verification adapter, an isolated EVM/revm lab and contributor instructions are available for review.
Open-source Rust Layer-1 research · Experimental public-alpha
QRun Blockchain: Open Rust Layer-1 Research
QRun is the brand of an independent native Layer-1 project. The native coin ticker is QZXB; the network is QRun Blockchain. QZXB expands to Quantum Zeta eXecution Blockchain (Quantum, Zeta, eXecution, Blockchain). The engineering programme combines a Rust-based ledger, deterministic state and recovery research, hybrid-signature experiments, and an EVM-compatible smart-contract development track.
Official QRun / QZXB naming guide · Current Mainnet and trading readiness
Native QZXB purchase status — not available to buy yet (checked 30 October 2026). QRun's public Mainnet has not launched, and there is no project-verified purchase route, active native QZXB/USDT liquidity pool, or exchange listing. Do not send USDT or other crypto to anyone claiming to sell native QZXB. A purchase link will be published only after the Mainnet release is independently qualified and a genuine market with verifiable reserves is live. Track the release gates, independent operator call, and independent protocol review.
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Native coin design: 10B capRust protocol researchML-DSA-65 verificationEVM compatibility labOpen-source engineering
Current network and release status
The repository, documentation and website are public. The running node remains an experimental candidate; publication of source code is not the same as production Mainnet operation.
Network operations
External peer reachability, independent operator convergence, full-history recovery and a production-frozen consensus profile are not yet established.
Mainnet and markets
No value-bearing production Mainnet, public explorer, independently verified spendable QZXB balance, public price or genuine QZXB/USDT pool is claimed.
Do not expose loopback-only RPC or transaction endpoints. A local wallet balance, a listening socket and passing local tests do not prove a production network or a real market.
Join the open QRun ecosystem
The source, research notes and contribution routes are public. We welcome independent operators, protocol engineers, security reviewers, AI/ML researchers, application developers and milestone sponsors. Current status is transparent: the running node is experimental public-alpha; value-bearing Mainnet and a native QZXB/USDT market are not live.
Run an independent node
We are recruiting operators on separate computers and networks to reproduce zero-value Devnet synchronization, restart, state-root and recovery results. This is not a request to deposit funds or mine value-bearing coins.
Contribute code and research
Help with Rust protocol paths, Genesis and issuance vectors, history recovery, reproducible builds, wallets, EVM integration, cryptography and AI/ML tooling. Start with the contribution and security guidance.
Contribution guide | Security policy | Independent protocol review
Inspect the latest experimental QRun source branch (not a production release).
Sponsor a defined milestone
Funding or in-kind contributions can target explicit tests, node hosting, protocol review or scoped Rust/AI engineering. Agree deliverables, acceptance criteria and written terms first. No sponsor or revenue is claimed as secured.
Engineering service offer | Sponsors and contributors | Contact the founder
Help build a genuine market path
Market integrators and counterparties are welcome to discuss real supported assets, custody/bridge design, liquidity and compliance. There is currently no verified native QZXB/USDT pool, listing or public price.
You can start participating now through code review, issue discussion and zero-value operator testing. Do not send funds, seed phrases or private keys. QRun is open for collaboration; candidate balances are not public Mainnet assets.
One ecosystem vision. Multiple engineering tracks.
The repository contains a broad engineering portfolio spanning native protocol research, cryptographic verification, storage recovery and programmable execution. Each subsystem is developed with explicit interfaces, reproducible tests and a staged integration path.
Ledger, consensus and monetary policy
Rust research components cover proof-of-work and difficulty-adjustment candidates, deterministic state transitions, block validation, chain selection, fork/reorganisation handling, supply accounting and snapshot replay.
Peer networking and recovery
Authenticated session research, pinned peer identities, bounded ingress and worker queues, archive synchronisation, durable-store models and crash/restart tests support an independently operable network design.
ML-DSA and hybrid identity
A real ML-DSA-65 verification adapter is exercised against selected hash-pinned external test vectors. V4 research formats combine Ed25519 and ML-DSA-65 for a staged hybrid-authentication path.
EVM and Solidity research
The isolated EVM lab and test-asset package passed local contract, wallet-console, server and dependency-audit checks on 2026-10-29. These tests do not prove EVM execution is integrated into the native QRun state machine.
Wallet and asset experiments
A fixed-supply ERC-20 demonstrator and browser deployment console run in EVM testnet/local environments. This historical QX asset is separate from the proposed native QZXB coin.
Applications and verifiable compute
The roadmap includes developer SDKs, agent identities and payments, provider reputation, verifiable job accounting and AI/compute coordination once each service has measurable interfaces and operating rules.
1,187 listed testsAcross the active experimental branch Cargo targets; list count is not itself a pass result.
53 vectorsSelected ML-DSA-65 external verification cases: 48 valid, 5 invalid
10 billionProposed maximum native-coin supply in the current monetary design
6 engineering tracksNative protocol, recovery, authenticated P2P, post-quantum research, EVM tooling and AI-native applications
Version boundaries matter: the dated public curated checkout at commit c3a5474 recorded 735/735 Rust library tests on 2026-10-21. The larger active experimental branch lists 1,187 tests across Cargo targets (931 in the main library target); its actual execution result is tracked separately in the dated release audit. See current status and test evidence and the public curated-checkout report.
Native QZXB supply and Genesis direction
The latest owner-directed specification in CP-0437 targets 10,000,000,000 native QZXB at Genesis, credited to one owner account, with zero post-Genesis minting and zero block subsidy. It is a design target, not an activated production Genesis, publicly spendable balance, or market asset.
| Rule | Current owner-directed target | Verified release status |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum Genesis issuance | 10,000,000,000 QZXB | Specification and candidate tests exist; canonical production integration is not complete. |
| Initial allocation | 100% to one owner account at Genesis | Exact account identity and Genesis commitment must be frozen and verified across the production node paths. |
| Post-Genesis minting | Zero | Must be enforced consistently in block production, import, replay, fork choice, storage and recovery. |
| Block subsidy | Zero | Block production would be fee-only; security incentives and operating economics still need qualification. |
| Public transfer and market | Not live | No independent converged public network, verified public balance, live native price, or QZXB/USDT pool is claimed. |
Important: the previous v0.4 allocation proposal (including a 3B mining envelope and ten-percent reserves) and the old halving/subsidy simulation are historical and superseded for the current QRun Genesis direction. They are retained as history, not current tokenomics.
Research with measurable evidence
State and replay consistency
Regression targets include canonical byte encoding, state-root vectors, branch selection, snapshot validation, replay, reorganisation and crash-recovery models.
Hybrid signature experiments
The selected ML-DSA-65 corpus is hash-pinned and contains expected positive and negative cases. Full default-path hybrid activation and whole-network post-quantum claims require further integration.
Smart-contract interoperability
The isolated EVM lab measures selected execution and state behaviours against another client. Native account, gas, receipt, storage and state-root integration are explicitly scoped in the roadmap.
Architecture principle: every public capability statement maps to source, test vectors or an explicitly labelled roadmap milestone. The research portfolio remains open to independent reproduction and technical collaboration.
Liquidity, market data and public launch
Listings and price charts follow a real network and an authentic market; they cannot replace either. Current official platform guidance makes the remaining prerequisites explicit.
Explorer and verifiable trading
Tracked data generally requires a functional site and explorer, active public trading with material volume on a tracked exchange, and a reachable project representative. Those native-market prerequisites are not yet established.
Official criteriaActive market and supply clarity
The published guide requires active trading on an integrated exchange. A working explorer and transparent circulating-supply methodology are also important. A request is not a listing guarantee.
Official guideReal pool, real transactions
Automatic token indexing applies to supported networks once a liquidity pool exists and at least one transaction has occurred. Native-chain support and a real QZXB pair are not currently established.
Official guidanceAuthentic data source
Unsupported symbols cannot simply be created manually. A real exchange or provider data path is needed before requesting market-chart integration.
Official guidanceFirst cash-flow options
Before native-coin trading exists, the practical revenue candidates are milestone-based protocol sponsorship, scoped Rust/protocol and developer-tooling work, AI/ML/LLM application engagements, research grants and paid integration support. Each offer should have concrete deliverables, acceptance tests and written terms.
No QRun revenue or confirmed sponsor is established in the current evidence. A proposed native-coin allocation is not cash, current liquidity or a signed sponsor award.
What unlocks a genuine market
- Canonical Genesis, zero-mint supply invariants, frozen consensus and fee-only block-production economics (Gate 2).
- Independent rollback trust and multi-host recovery evidence (Gate 8).
- Native EVM/RPC integration, public zero-value devnet, wallet and explorer.
- Independent protocol/cryptography review and reproducible release evidence.
- Real, supported trading/pool data and transparent circulating-supply methodology.
The QX ERC-20 experiment on Ethereum Sepolia is a separate test asset, not native QZXB. No native price, market liquidity, tracked listing, fixed TPS or project revenue is asserted. We will display live price charts only when they can be tied to a genuine source.
Engineering roadmap
The roadmap focuses on integrating the strongest existing components into one deterministic, independently reproducible release path.
Phase 1 - Native protocol
Freeze Genesis, monetary rules and one canonical execution profile; verify issuance and state commitments through the full chain lifecycle.
Phase 2 - Hybrid trust
Integrate the selected ML-DSA/hybrid transaction profile and independently protected recovery trust, then qualify multi-host failure scenarios.
Phase 3 - Native EVM
Freeze the VM fork and gas schedule, integrate accounts/code/storage/receipts, then validate RPC and cross-node contract execution.
Phase 4 - Public devnet
Operate independent nodes with a native wallet, RPC and explorer; test peer churn, upgrades, recovery and real network measurements.
Phase 5 - Release qualification
Reproducible build, dependency provenance, external protocol/cryptography review, remediation and signed release materials.
Phase 6 - Ecosystem & revenue
Deliver sponsor-funded engineering, integration services and developer tools; later pilot verified AI/compute coordination with real service evidence.
Support public-benefit engineering
Help advance open technical resources for the global developer and research communities: reproducible testing, technical documentation, developer tooling, and independent review when resources are available.
Support QRun on Giveth
Open the official Giveth page to review current status and any available donation options. The live page status, owner wallet control, donation receipt, gas/third-party costs, and tax treatment must be verified directly; this website does not certify current availability or promise tax deductibility.
Donation use and transparency
Intended uses include open-source research and engineering, reproducible tests, documentation, developer tools, and independent technical review when resources are available. Future testnet, wallet, RPC, and explorer work is planned rather than represented as already operational.
Important: the native QZXB mainnet and a liquid native-coin market have not launched. Donations are public-benefit support, not an investment or purchase of tokens. No token rewards, profits, financial returns, or guaranteed outcomes are promised.
At the initial campaign check on 2026-10-21, Giveth showed the direct page as active with donations enabled, public directory review still pending, and GIVbacks status not eligible. These separate platform statuses may change; check the live campaign page. No donations are claimed on this website.
Founder, research and collaboration
QRun is founder-led and open to direct proposals from sponsors, engineers, researchers and ecosystem partners. The profile below is based on the research topics and education in the current CV plus the public project record.
Hamid Nikkhah - Founder / AI Researcher
Hamid Nikkhah completed a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence in 2024 (institution intentionally omitted from this public profile), following an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (2020) and a B.Sc. in Computer Science (2015). Research areas include machine learning, quantum machine learning, fuzzy and evolutionary optimisation, pattern recognition, cognitive science and post-quantum blockchain security. The supplied CV lists work with Python, NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MATLAB, C++ and Qiskit. LLM-enabled application architecture and agent/compute workflows are collaboration and roadmap areas; no production LLM service is claimed.
Direct contact for proposals
Financial or infrastructure sponsorship, Rust/protocol contributions, cryptography/security review, EVM/Solidity integration, AI/LLM research, university partnerships, grant programmes and exchange/market-data technical inquiries are welcome.
Email the founder directly: hamidnikkhah660@gmail.com
Please include the organisation, relevant examples, proposed deliverables, expected timeline, resource/budget scope and measurable acceptance criteria. No sponsor is currently represented as contracted and no listing or market is claimed as live.
Public release identity
Brand: QRun. Native coin ticker: QZXB. Network: QRun Blockchain. The name and ticker describe the selected project identity; this does not claim that Mainnet is deployed or the coin is listed.
Source baseline: curated source release v0.1.1-source. Current public documentation/site state is described by the current public release manifest v1.8; documentation updates do not change consensus/runtime code unless the release explicitly says so.
Native network: the native mainnet profile, production Genesis and full EVM execution integration are the upcoming engineering milestones. The Sepolia QX contract is a different testnet asset, not the native coin.
Market status: no public native market price or liquidity is asserted. Sponsor allocations are conditional proposals from the existing founder tranche, not an issued guarantee of value.
Explore the technical guides
Architecture and native Rust research
A grounded overview of protocol, recovery, P2P, wallet, EVM and AI-native tracks.
ML-DSA-65 and hybrid signatures
What the selected 53-case fixture proves, and what whole-network post-quantum claims still require.
Supply rules and economics
The current 10B Genesis direction and the older allocation model that it supersedes.
Technical status and open gates
Test inventory, source-branch boundaries, network blockers and release prerequisites.
Contribute or propose a funded milestone
How to submit code, independent validation, infrastructure or a written sponsorship proposal.