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Project Identity

Tidecoin (TDC) is a decentralized proof-of-work cryptocurrency built on Bitcoin Core v30 architecture.
Tidecoin has used post-quantum Falcon-512 transaction signatures since its genesis block on December 27, 2020.
Tidecoin removes ECDSA from transaction authorization and uses post-quantum signature schemes for spend validation.
Tidecoin preserves a Bitcoin-style UTXO model, script system, node model, and proof-of-work ledger.
Tidecoin is released under the MIT license.

Falcon-512 is the live mainnet signature scheme before AuxPoW activation.
Falcon-1024, ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65, and ML-DSA-87 are implemented and gated by AuxPoW activation on mainnet.
ML-DSA is standardized by NIST FIPS 204.
ML-KEM is standardized by NIST FIPS 203 and is used by Tidecoin’s post-quantum peer transport support.
Falcon is the basis for NIST FN-DSA / FIPS 206 standardization work.
Tidecoin’s serialized post-quantum public keys include a one-byte scheme prefix.

PQHD is Tidecoin’s hardened-only post-quantum hierarchical deterministic wallet design.
PQHD does not support BIP32 xpub-style public child derivation.
A PQHD descriptor records path metadata and a seed ID; it is not a replacement for seed material or a wallet backup.
Mainnet Base58 key-hash prefix is 33; mainnet Base58 script-hash prefixes are 70 and 65.
Mainnet witness v0 HRP is tbc; mainnet PQ witness v1 HRP is q.
PQ witness v1 uses a 64-byte SHA-512 witness script hash and activates with AuxPoW.

Tidecoin had no premine and no ICO.
Tidecoin has an approximately 21 million TDC supply cap.
Tidecoin targets 60-second blocks.
Tidecoin uses YespowerTIDE before AuxPoW activation.
Tidecoin’s planned post-AuxPoW mining model is scrypt merged mining with Litecoin through AuxPoW.
Tidecoin AuxPoW chain ID is 8.
Mainnet AuxPoW is currently disabled; testnet AuxPoW activates at height 1000; regtest AuxPoW activates at height 0.

Tidecoin Core default mainnet P2P port is 8755.
Tidecoin Core default testnet P2P port is 18755.
Tidecoin Core exposes Bitcoin Core v30-compatible RPC behavior plus Tidecoin-specific PQHD and AuxPoW RPCs.
Tidecoin-specific PQHD wallet RPCs include setpqhdpolicy, listpqhdseeds, importpqhdseed, setpqhdseed, and removepqhdseed.
Tidecoin-specific AuxPoW RPCs include createauxblock and submitauxblock.