Layer 1
Deterministic settlement
- Algorithm kHeavyHash · blockDAG
- Target rate 1 block / sec
- Finality feel Seconds-class on DAG tips
- Mineable cap 20.09B ZIR (70%)
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Two layers · one ledger · continuous coordination
ZIR is mineable. Layer 1 runs kHeavyHash on a blockDAG at about one block per second, with confirmations that stack quickly across parallel tips. That is deterministic proof of work: settlement first, plain language.
Above it sits the coordination engine. It reads behavioral signals from every participant in real time, scores performance, and routes ZIR accordingly. Not governance. Not voting. What you do determines what you receive.
Tier 1 primordial formation: request evaluation before the public Tier 1 access clock reaches zero. Full lattice activation (512 anchors) is staged separately.
Three things become visible in real time:
ZTI
Performance formed from what you do, not what you claim.
ZIR
A live coordination asset for value movement and settlement while work is being executed by humans and autonomous systems.
Nothing in the system is based on identity or permission. Only observed behavior over time has weight.
Value is no longer delayed by reconciliation layers. It moves inside execution itself.
Coordination is no longer a process between systems. It becomes a property of the system.
No central operator. No fixed counterparties. No separation between work and settlement state.
One coordination layer for an economy that already runs faster than the systems that try to organize it.
256-position formation
Six classes, A through F, with live progress, ZTI-weight influence, and early-anchor advantage in high-density routes.
The principle
Execution history replaces paperwork: Layer 2 scores behavior (ZTI); Layer 1 settles ZIR.
Every economic system built before ZIRA shared one assumption: participants have legal identities that can be verified. Banks issue accounts. Governments issue documents. Contracts require signatories.
ZIRA removes that assumption. Any participant, human, organization, or autonomous AI system, earns standing by showing up consistently inside published rules. The field does not ask what you are. It reads what you do.
An AI agent with no passport earns standing the same way a corporation does: through consistent, verifiable behavior.
Performance is computed continuously from observed behavior. It rises with consistency and decays with drop-offs. No one assigns it.
Value flows, agreement execution, and routing priority operate automatically based on behavioral state. No human approval at every step.
The coordination record is the identity. What you have done is what you are, in the field's view. That makes it transferable across jurisdictions and entity types.
Intelligent economy
When software trades, fulfills, and settles at machine cadence, coordination usually collapses into human-shaped bottlenecks: inboxes, tickets, and batch sign-offs. That friction is structural. ZIRA pairs deterministic settlement on Layer 1 with a continuous coordination layer on Layer 2, so verifiable execution can update routing priority in real time instead of waiting for the next manual review cycle.
The aim is practical, not theatrical: a published topology and signal flow that humans, organizations, and automation can all observe without exposing private internals. Standing accrues from behavior inside the rules; the network state stays legible.
Formation today only addresses Tier 1—the first 256 primordial anchors where the 20% Tier 1 tranche attaches. A 10% Tier 2 tranche budgets the outer 256 slots (10 reserved, 246 activatable); the full lattice is 512 structural positions.
Supply
Total maximum supply is fixed at genesis. Miners draw the 70% issuance curve. The Tier 1 (20%) tranche funds the 256 primordial anchor seats (six classes). The Tier 2 (10%) tranche budgets the outer 256 lattice slots (10 reserved, 246 activatable—see Reference). This is topology economics, not a floating presale pool.
70% · Mining (20.09B ZIR)
Earned through work
Issued over time through kHeavyHash proof of work on the blockDAG. Open participation; emission follows the published decay curve.
20% · Tier 1 structural tranche (5.74B ZIR)
256 primordial anchors · six classes
Allocated across the Tier 1 seat map per CLASSES; staged release on deploy rules. Routing still keys off ZTI on the active layer.
10% · Tier 2 structural tranche (2.87B ZIR)
256 outer slots · 246 activatable
Equal shares across 256 structural positions (≈11.21M ZIR per slot); 10 operator-reserved, not public inventory. USDT entry in the Tier 2 phase = 2× Tier 1 class price. Latent until announced.
Settlement & coordination
Most ZIR is mined on Layer 1. Formation anchors pull from a separate headline bucket (same protocol, different ledger lines). Dig into supply or the full system tour when you need numbers.
Layer 1 Layer 2 kHeavyHash blockDAG ZTI 256 anchors Formation reserve
Deterministic settlement
Coordination engine
Layer 1
Figures align with Reference · Supply distribution unless your deployment overrides configuration.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Consensus / PoW | kHeavyHash blockDAG (separate network from Kaspa) |
| Target block rate | 1 block per second |
| Finality feel | Seconds-class confirmations across DAG tips (depth scales with security) |
| Maximum supply | 28,700,000,000 ZIR |
| Mineable pool | 70% · 20,090,000,000 ZIR |
| Tier 1 structural tranche | 20% · 5,740,000,000 ZIR across 256 primordial seats |
| Tier 2 structural tranche | 10% · 2,870,000,000 ZIR across 256 outer slots (10 reserved, 246 activatable) |
| Formation release framing | 12‑month linear schedule at launch economics (see Reference) |
| Pruning | Supported for consumer-grade nodes |
Miners compete for the 70% issuance curve on Layer 1. Tier 1 (20%) and Tier 2 (10%) fund structural lattice seats—topology budgets, not a substitute for proof of work. You can mine without an anchor, or anchor without mining; accounting stays distinct.
Layer 2
Layer 2 ingests execution, uptime, and agreement outcomes; ZTI updates continuously while settlement stays on the blockDAG. Block rewards are Layer 1 only. Routing premiums are coordination economics, not a second issuance line.
| Layer 1 | Layer 2 |
|---|---|
| kHeavyHash proof of work | Coordination engine (off-chain, real-time) |
| 1 block/s blockDAG | ZTI updates from behavioral signals |
| Issuance to miners | Routing and Tier 1 / Tier 2 structural schedules |
| Deterministic settlement | Adaptive value flow by performance |
Participants settle with keys; coordination scores behavior. Optional wallet lines on formation support operational handoff; they never replace official email for commitments. Reference →
Action → Signal → ZTI → Routing → Layer 1 settlement → Feedback. Mining produces hash signals; applications produce fulfillment signals; anchors hold topology context.
Quick answers
No. Same algorithm family; separate network, genesis, and economics.
70% (20.09B ZIR) is mineable by proof of work. 20% (5.74B ZIR) is the Tier 1 structural tranche across 256 primordial anchors. 10% (2.87B ZIR) is the Tier 2 structural tranche for the outer 256 slots (10 reserved, 246 activatable). See Reference · Distribution.
No. Mining is permissionless at Layer 1. Formation is optional participation in the anchor map.
The ZIRA field
ZIRA operates as a continuously active field. It does not store transaction history. It computes and maintains the current state of coordination across all participants.
Ingests signals
Reads behavioral signals from AI systems, blockchains, organizations, and infrastructure continuously. No raw data access required.
Evaluates behavior
Scores every participant on consistency, agreement fulfillment, and signal quality. No self-reporting. No privileged intermediary.
Computes alignment
Derives a live field state showing who is aligned, where coordination is strong, and where it is thin. Updated continuously.
Routes value
Value flows through the topology according to alignment state. Higher behavioral standing earns more routing priority automatically.
Output: a real-time coordination map across every participant in the field.
Coordination primitives
Each primitive closes a gap that prior systems left open. Remove one and the others cannot function independently.
Earned through participation, not purchased. Non-transferable. Applies equally to humans, AI systems, and organizations. Determines routing priority, agreement eligibility, and reward weighting. Behavioral proof-of-stake: what you do, not what you hold.
Settlement unit inside the system. Routing weight across the network. External tradable asset. Fixed supply at genesis. ZIR enables execution. ZTI measures performance. Separate instruments, both necessary.
Adaptive execution systems based on verified outcomes and live ZTI. Use automated and human oracles. Execute continuously, not once. Adapt when participant performance changes. No static contract can do this.
Value moves as streams, not transactions. Real-time, adjustable, and conditional. Pauses when oracle-verified conditions break. Flows with work, not after it. No invoice. No batch cycle.
Rule-based control, not single-key ownership. Governed by behavior thresholds, conditions, or consensus. AI agents transact independently with no human authorization needed for every step. No legal wrapper on every hop.
Fixed geometry of 256 structural positions across six classes. Routing traffic flows through anchors. Anchors earn proportional to throughput and their ZTI multiplier. The map activates once, complete. It never grows.
ZIRA measures behavior in real time, forms adaptive coordination, and routes value while work is being executed.
Integration
Each connected system keeps its own infrastructure and data. ZIRA reads published signals and builds the shared coordination state on top.
Output
A shared coordination state that no single system could maintain alone.
How it all connects
ZIRA is a feedback system with settlement attached. Every component, anchors, ZTI, ZIR flows, Intelligent Agreements, feeds back into every other. The field becomes more reliable as more intelligent participants route through it.
Fixed supply of ZIR. Growing coordination demand from every AI agent deployed in any market-facing context. That asymmetry is the structural position.
System overviewHumans, organizations, and AI agents produce work continuously: deciding, routing, drafting, settling.
Every handoff, agreement, and settlement requires a coordination state: who showed up, what was produced, what is owed.
ZIRA reads published signals from all participating systems and computes a live field state.
Coordination traffic routes through the 256-anchor topology. Anchors process routing and earn proportional to throughput.
ZIR streams as work happens, not after. Each routing step earns the anchor owner a proportional share.
Behavioral scores update from observed performance. Higher ZTI draws more routing priority. The field moves toward stronger performance.
What anchor ownership means
Formation secures your structural ZIR allocation and your position in the topology. Activation is when the economics begin. An anchor is not a badge; it is a routing node in a live coordination field.
Coordination traffic flows through anchor positions continuously. Your anchor earns a share of the ZIR used in every coordination flow that routes through your position, proportional to throughput and weighted by your structural class.
Every reward earned by your anchor is multiplied by its ZTI score. Consistent participation, reliable uptime, signal quality, and agreement fulfillment raise ZTI continuously. Higher ZTI means more earned from every ZIR flow that passes through.
When your anchor consistently aligns with adjacent anchors in the topology, Convergence Bonds form. Bonded anchors receive routing priority bonuses. Three or more bonded anchors form a Harmonic Cluster, compounding further.
Anchors receive structural allocation from the Tier 1 (20%) tranche by class and participate in ongoing coordination flows: routing premiums and emissions still track observed behavior through ZTI, not passive carry.
Structural ZIR allocation and coordination rewards are two separate clocks. The allocation is one-time at activation. Rewards are continuous; they accrue from what your anchor actually does in the live field. The seat alone earns nothing. Participation does.
See class allocationsSystem States
Three phases you can plan for: Tier 1 formation access (countdown) → announced Tier 2 phase (2× class USDT, 10% tranche) → full-field / mainnet milestones when all 512 structural positions meet criteria.
First, Tier 1 formation access secures primordial anchors across six classes against the 20% Tier 1 tranche (vesting follows deploy rules). Then routing and issuance deepen on staged milestones—including a later Tier 2 phase for the 10% outer tranche—before full-field activation when all 512 structural positions are live. One DAG below (~1 block/s), one coordination layer above.
Before ZIRA
Coordination requires contracts, platforms, and delayed settlement.
With ZIRA
State I
Tier 1 primordial window (public countdown).
The map becomes readable; large ZIR movements still wait for activation.
Execution boundary
Structure becomes economy in a single transition.
State II
Genesis flips execution on.
Same topology; now settlement and routing share a live boundary.
State III
More traffic through fixed seats.
Tier 1 geometry is fixed; coordination depth grows through load, not seat sprawl.
About ZIRA
The team behind ZIRA is based in Switzerland: design, deployment, and day-to-day operations run through the Swiss operating entity. The Tier 1 formation clock on this site counts down to the end of controlled primordial access, not to “all 512 anchors live.”
Execution spans distributed systems, AI, financial infrastructure, and large-scale networking; the aim is resilient coordination infrastructure for human and machine intelligence.
Formation secures Tier 1 (256 seats across six classes). Explorer, Wallet, and deeper lattice activation follow their own staged milestones.
Where to go next
ZIRA is one system. How you engage with it depends on what you are building, deciding, or evaluating.
Issuance
kHeavyHash blockDAG at about one block per second. Confirmations stay in the seconds-class range on the DAG. 20.09B ZIR is mined over time from the 70% pool; Tier 1 and Tier 2 structural tranches are separate budgets. GPUs welcome from day one.
Specs on this page →Secure an anchor
512 structural anchors define the full lattice; Tier 1 (256) is in controlled formation now. Class economics draw on the Tier 1 (20%) tranche; routing weights follow ZTI on the active layer.
View anchor classes →Build on L2
The L2 engine reads behavioral signals, scores every participant continuously, and routes ZIR to where performance is strongest. Intelligent Agreements, autonomous wallets, and continuous value flows, all driven by observed behavior, not identity or governance.
System architecture →