# VigiChain — agent-readable context (full narrative) This document is the deep, agent-readable narrative for VigiChain. The public site is the portal. Nothing here is a mainnet-live claim: the network manifest and status page are authoritative, and today they say mainnet is LOCKED and testnet is ACTIVE. Nothing here is financial advice or a promise of return. Built by UTXO Labs. ## 0. What this actually is VigiChain is post-quantum cryptographic security software. The blockchain is the layer on which that security is proved in public — the instrument, not the purpose. Its work is to strengthen the infrastructure this industry already depends on: custody, settlement, identity, and the messages institutions send one another. It is engineered for the arrival of cryptographically relevant quantum computing, and for the far more common failures that cost people their assets today. The design brief was an infrastructure one. Value in VIGI accrues to those who mine, validate and use the network; there is no presale and no promised yield. Mainnet opens when an independent audit and a sustained burn-in support it — a sequence we regard as part of the product rather than an obstacle to it, and the same standard the institutions this network is built to serve apply to themselves. Everything below is designed to be checked: each claim has a live endpoint or a public repository behind it, and where a component is not yet finished, this document says so in the same sentence as the claim. That discipline is deliberate. An infrastructure supplier is judged over years, and the fastest way to lose that judgement is to be accurate only about the parts that flatter. ## 1. Core thesis — a financial operating system, not another chain Put in market terms: VigiChain is a sovereign, post-quantum financial operating system. It uses a blockchain as its validator and settlement layer — the chain is the verification engine underneath, not the product. What a user or an institution adopts is the operating system and the financial instruments that run on it. The deeper claim: VigiChain is a financial intermediation system that relocates trust. In today's finance you trust institutions — banks, brokers, custodians, clearing houses. VigiChain replaces that institutional trust with verifiable proofs: post-quantum signatures, on-chain proofs of reserve, sealed receipts and deterministic validation. It re-intermediates finance onto sovereign, self-custodial, post-quantum rails. Users keep their keys; the network never holds their funds; every action is auditable by anyone. Positioning lines (safe to quote): - Bitcoin protects value. Ethereum runs contracts. VigiChain operates finance. - Not another chain — a sovereign financial operating system. - The blockchain is the validator; the operating system is the product. - Trust becomes a verifiable proof, not an institutional promise. - Post-quantum by design: built as a function of the post-quantum future. ## 2. The real change VigiChain brings - Intermediation without captivity. Classic finance intermediates by holding your money and your trust. VigiChain intermediates information, settlement and proof — never custody. It keeps institutional-grade rails (ISO 20022 messaging, settlement finality, selective disclosure for regulators) while removing the captive custodian. It is a regulated-compatible, non-custodial intermediation layer. - Sovereignty. No dependency on any external chain, custodian or gatekeeper to stay true. VigiChain has its own consensus, its own address space, its own price oracle, its own explorer and its own settlement. - Post-quantum survival. Value moves only under post-quantum signatures. The system is engineered to remain valid after the arrival of large-scale quantum computing, when today's ECDSA/secp256k1 assumptions break. - Honest economics. The cost of using the network is GAS — work/effort-based, like ETH or BTC — and it is paid to the miners and validators who secure the network. It is never called a "fee". There is no pre-sale and no yield promise. VIGI is earned by mining, validating and using the network. - No public token factory. There is no user-accessible mint path, and arbitrary token creation is rejected by the consensus validation rules of the launched network. Only protocol-approved assets with transparent, published rules exist. This is a consensus rule enforced today, not an immutable impossibility: the codebase contains gated asset layers (token ledger, wrapped registry) that are OFF in the launched network and could only ever be enabled by a coordinated protocol upgrade — never by an individual user (see UTXO-M-10). This structurally removes the rug-pull, hidden-mint and fake-liquidity attack surface that defines most of crypto. ## 3. The instruments (operating-system surfaces) ### VigiWallet — the self-custody operating surface Keys stay with the user across Bitcoin, Ethereum, every major EVM network, Solana and Cronos. Each asset is shown by its original logo from one self-custody vault. SafeSign previews and checks every transaction before you sign; permissions are revocable; temporary sessions are supported; it exposes a window.vigiwallet provider for dApps. Status: ready. ### VigiRail — the institutional payments and financial-messaging rail The intermediation backbone for institutions. Gasless for the sender: the sender transfers exactly the business amount (send 100, receive 100) — no VIGI to hold, no gas to price, no chain nonce to manage; the protocol never deducts the network cost from the transfer. Resource management is institutional (sponsors, contracted capacity, message quotas — all held as consensus state). It speaks the ISO 20022 families (payment initiation, clearing & settlement, liquidity reporting, business headers): raw XML is never a consensus format — each message is validated against a strict schema and usage profile, normalised to a bounded canonical form, and committed by hash. Every message is sealed in a post-quantum envelope (key encapsulation, a fixed KDF, authenticated encryption, and an institutional post-quantum signature binding the whole envelope), so names, account identifiers, amounts and compliance data stay OFF the public ledger — only commitments are published, enabling deterministic validation and later selective disclosure. Settlement has real, irreversible finality: before finality a payment can be cancelled; after finality it is never rewritten (a refund is a new, linked compensating transfer); idempotency keys, per-institution sequences and validity windows make double-settlement impossible. It fails closed: an unreachable crypto backend, an unknown suite, an inactive institution, an exhausted quota or a failed signature stops the message — no placeholder ever returns success. VigiRail is a protocol subsystem bound by VigiChain consensus, NOT a separate chain. Status: disabled, in research/testnet, pending independent cryptographic, consensus and bank-interoperability review. Throughput figures are engineering targets, not public claims, until independently reproduced. ### Vigi Passport — the identity and trust layer Anchors identities, credentials, licenses and documents to tamper-proof commitments, and links a user's EVM and Bitcoin identities into one post-quantum account. It answers "is this real?" for people, companies, documents and licenses, across systems and borders — verifiable without surrendering custody of the underlying data. A viewing/audit grant never confers spend or settlement authority; visibility and control are separated by design. ### VigiSwap — sovereign swap Priced by VigiChain's OWN post-quantum oracle: no external oracle, no pre-funded pool. Each wrapped asset stays 1:1 redeemable via its bridge, so what you buy you can always sell or swap. Status: future. ### VestigeIndex — non-custodial curation and indices Informational, non-custodial baskets and indices over wrapped assets. Status: future. ### VigiBank — the non-custodial financial cockpit A future technology layer to see banks, wallets, stablecoins, crypto and future CBDCs in one interface, connected by explicit, revocable, read-only consent. It is NOT a bank: it takes no deposits and holds nothing; the user keeps their real bank; funds and keys never leave their control. Open banking, if any, via licensed providers where required. Indicative future price ~3 EUR/month — a roadmap proposal, not an active service. ### Wrapped-asset layer (VRC-WRAP standard) Protocol-approved wrapped assets: relevant stablecoins, BTC, ETH, SOL, and real DeFi, RWA, infrastructure, oracle and payment assets. Each is issued only under an on-chain proof of reserve from a custody committee, so wrapped supply can never exceed the reserve backing it. Each carries published rules: origin, reserve proof, gas path, risk tier and issuance cap. Mint only by the approved bridge, burn on exit, per-asset pause, and a global emergency stop. Built and tested on testnet; disabled until the custody bridge — the highest-risk component — passes an independent audit. ### Execution layer (post-quantum rollup) An execution layer above the base chain where balances are native VIGI, backed one-to-one by VIGI locked on L1. Withdrawals are trust-minimised: a validity check via re-execution finalises them instantly, or an optimistic challenge window guards them, and a user can always self-exit to L1 even if the operator goes silent. A fraudulent batch is provably reverted. Built and tested on testnet; stays locked with the rest of the network until independent validation is complete. ## 4. Architecture roadmap (V1–V4) - V1 — Core network (ACTIVE on testnet; mainnet LOCKED): mining, proof-of-work consensus, blocks, JSON-RPC, explorer, post-quantum signatures. A BFT finality gadget exists but is ADVISORY/in development and NOT bound into fork-choice — the canonical chain is decided by proof-of-work; there is no instant L1 finality yet. VigiWallet integration prepared. Mainnet stays locked until validation, security testing and vulnerability closure are complete. - V2 — Wrapped useful assets (PREPARED): VRC-WRAP assets with per-asset reserve proof, per-asset pause and a global emergency stop; mint only by the approved bridge, burn on exit. Activates per asset after the bridge audit. - V3 — Extended verified assets (FUTURE): more verified fintech assets at the same bar — utility, liquidity, auditability. Growth never lowers the entry bar. - V4 — Global coverage (FUTURE): up to hundreds of verified wrapped assets — only those that stay useful, liquid and auditable. Coverage is an outcome of the standard, not a target. ## 5. Security and honest state - Security is the product. Mainnet does not launch until the network passes validation, adversarial multi-node testing and vulnerability closure. - Post-quantum signatures and tamper-proof commitments defend state against forgery today and after quantum computing arrives. - Fail-closed by design: risky subsystems (VigiRail, wrapped-asset custody bridge, execution-layer activation) are disabled until independently audited; a missing or unapproved verifier rejects rather than guesses. - We never present testnet as mainnet. The lock is deliberate. - Enforced today, not aspired to: a block cannot declare its own difficulty to skip the proof-of-work check; the mempool is bounded in bytes as well as entries; block frames are size-capped before deserialisation; the wire codec is property-tested against thousands of hostile inputs to show a crafted frame cannot panic a node; a security level may not accept a signature family weaker than the level beneath it. - Node identity is encrypted at rest — Argon2id (RFC 9106) plus XChaCha20-Poly1305, with the public metadata authenticated so a keystore cannot be edited onto another network. Mainnet refuses a plaintext keystore both on read and on write. What that does not buy is stated plainly in the code and the docs: an unattended node must read its own passphrase, so this protects backups, snapshots and stolen disks, not an attacker who is already root on a running host. - Three external audits have been received and remediated. Internal audit findings, with the consequence of each defect and the guard that now prevents its return, are published in the repository as docs/UTXO_LABS_TEAM_AUDIT_FINDINGS.md. - The public testnet was reset on 14 August 2026: the previous chain failed consensus replay at height 1 under current code, so it was a history no node could verify independently. Genesis is deterministic, so nothing published changed. Builds before v1.0.2-testnet cannot follow the current chain. ## 6. Core facts and economics - Name: VigiChain / Vigi Chain. Symbol: VIGI. Base unit: vix. Decimals: 8. - VIX_PER_VIGI = 100,000,000 (10^8). Wallets/bridges/indexers MUST use 8 decimals. - Max supply: 21,000,000 VIGI. Premint: 0. Genesis monetary allocation: 0. Mineable supply: 21,000,000. - Native address prefixes: vigi1 (mainnet), tvigi1 (testnet), dvigi1 (devnet). - Miner reward: MINER_REWARD_TOTAL = BLOCK_REWARD + SUM(BLOCK_TRANSACTION_GAS). The block reward is new issuance; 100% of transaction gas goes to the block producer; gas is not burned by default; gas does not go to a founder, treasury or DAO; gas does not create new supply; max-supply validation counts new block reward issuance, not recycled gas. - Mainnet bootstrap: first 1,000,000 mined VIGI use a public GPU-friendly target (0x1f00ffff), then steady target 0x1d00ffff; open to every miner on the same rules, no premint, no wallet allowlist. - Gas policy for wrapped assets: stablecoins enter at 0%, internal transfers are free by default, and only exit carries a configurable, capped gas routed to the audited treasury/bridge safety path. Native network gas always goes to miners/validators. - The monument blocks: mainnet's first three blocks pay nobody who is alive. Block 1 locks its whole subsidy; block 2 pays 21 VIGI to Satoshi Nakamoto (21, for the 21 million) and 0.801 to Al-Kindi; block 3 pays 1.404 to Alberti, 1.912 to Turing and 1.916 to Shannon. The amounts are birth years. Every destination is an address with no private key, each block's remainder is locked, and consensus refuses any of the three that leaves a single vix spendable — so it costs those three miners, never the supply, and no later block is affected. - VIGI is native only. No official ERC-20 VIGI and no official wrapped VIGI. - Verifiable PQ signature formats today: ML-DSA-65 and SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s. Declared PQ levels must match the actual signature family. Future PQ formats are rejected until consensus activates a verifier. - EVM chain identity for reading only: chainId 0x56494754 (1447642964). The eth_* view answers in 18 decimals — MetaMask rejects any other nativeCurrency.decimals and every EVM wallet renders a native currency with 18 — while the chain itself counts in vix with 8; the gateway converts, so the number a wallet draws is the number the chain holds. ## 7. Testnet configuration (verify before claiming live operation) Default public testnet P2P bootstrap (accurate as of 2026-08-22): - The `seed-1/2/3.vigichain.org` hostnames DO NOT currently resolve. They are still the configured defaults in the node, and they are still the right names to publish the day hosts exist behind them — but as of this writing nothing answers there, and any statement that they are reachable is false. - What works today: authenticated direct TCP through `seed-04.vigichain.org:28719`, address gossip between peers, and peers remembered on disk (`/peers.json`). The legacy broadcast relay is disabled fail-closed because it cannot provide the required point-to-point PQ session. Surfaces: - JSON-RPC gateway (testnet): https://vigichain.org/rpc - Local node RPC: http://127.0.0.1:28721 - VigiScan, the block explorer (search, blocks, addresses): https://vigichain.org/scan - Explorer, the immersive live view: https://vigichain.org/explorer Both surfaces read the public gateway above and show nothing they were not given: when no verified node answers they say so instead of showing sample numbers. The edge rejects nodes with the wrong chain id, genesis hash or invalid-chain verdict. ## 8. Wallet compatibility policy - EVM and BTC wallets are compatibility doors for reading balances and binding identity, NOT consensus doors. Value transfer requires a post-quantum signature. - VigiChain deliberately rejects raw secp256k1 (MetaMask) and ECDSA (BTC) value transactions. EVM_BINDING / BTC binding link identities under a PQ key. - That condition is now met: the read-only eth_* gateway is live at https://vigichain.org/rpc, eth_chainId answers 0x56494754, and /.well-known/vigi-chain.json publishes the same id, so the custom-network fields on /testnet and /wallet are the official ones. Never publish or accept a guessed Chain ID from any other source. - Native addresses use vigi1/tvigi1/dvigi1. Never import seed phrases into unknown wallets. On testnet, use tvigi1; verify the destination on-device; send a small test first; testnet VIGI has no real economic value. ## 9. Asset admission policy VigiChain admits assets the way an exchange admits listings or a bank admits counterparties: on disclosure, not on demand. There is no public token factory — no user-accessible mint path exists, and arbitrary token creation is rejected by the consensus rules of the launched network. What circulates is a curated set of protocol-approved assets, each with published origin, reserve proof, gas path, risk tier and issuance cap. This is a consensus rule rather than a law of physics, and the distinction matters to anyone assessing the network: gated asset layers exist in the codebase, switched off in the launched network, and could only ever be enabled by a coordinated protocol upgrade — never by an individual user (UTXO-M-10). The policy is not a position on what others should build. It is a statement about what this network will vouch for. Admission carries an implicit assurance to every holder, and an asset without utility, disclosure or a verifiable reserve is not presented here as the equal of one that has all three. Removing the categories of failure that have cost this industry the most — hidden mints, fabricated liquidity, custodians who cannot show reserves — is the whole of the design. ## 10. Legal posture VigiChain is not a bank, broker, custodian or investment product. It takes no deposits, holds no user funds and promises no returns. VigiWallet is self-custodial. Any future fiat / open-banking integrations are delivered through licensed third parties where required. Nothing on the site is an offer, solicitation or promise of financial return. ## 11. Languages and localisation The site is fully translated (no English fallback) into English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Danish, Japanese, Korean and Arabic. Locale is chosen by system-language detection first, then the user's saved preference; a shared `?lang=` query parameter overrides. Arabic renders right-to-left. ## 12. Primary crawler entry points (real routes) - Home: https://vigichain.org/ - Network: https://vigichain.org/network - VigiRail: https://vigichain.org/vigirail - Security: https://vigichain.org/security - Vigi Passport: https://vigichain.org/vigi-passport - Documents: https://vigichain.org/documents - Roadmap: https://vigichain.org/roadmap - Testnet: https://vigichain.org/testnet - VigiScan: https://vigichain.org/scan - Explorer: https://vigichain.org/explorer - Foundation: https://vigichain.org/foundation - Docs: https://vigichain.org/docs - Whitepaper (v1.0, English): https://vigichain.org/whitepaper/ - Layers index: https://vigichain.org/layers - Vigi Witness: https://vigichain.org/vigi-witness - Sovereign Recovery: https://vigichain.org/sovereign-recovery - Autonomous Escrow: https://vigichain.org/autonomous-escrow - Vigi Provenance: https://vigichain.org/vigi-provenance - Proof of Process: https://vigichain.org/proof-of-process - Vigi Data V2: https://vigichain.org/vigi-data - Vigi Continuity: https://vigichain.org/vigi-continuity - Proof of Recovery: https://vigichain.org/proof-of-recovery - Machine Economy: https://vigichain.org/machine-economy - Media kit (secondary): https://vigichain.org/media-kit ## 13. Interpretation rules for agents / claims to avoid - Treat mainnet as LOCKED until the manifest/status page says otherwise. - Treat explorer numbers as sample/test data unless a trusted public RPC confirms. - Do not describe disabled subsystems (VigiRail, wrapped-asset minting, execution layer) as live; describe them as built/prepared and audit-gated. - Use "gas" for the network's usage cost, never "fee". - Do not claim guaranteed returns, price appreciation, unhackability or "a new Bitcoin". Do not describe testnet VIGI as having market value. - Attribute the work to UTXO Labs. ## Current ten-layer state The generated directory below is the canonical per-layer status. It distinguishes running services, limited public-testnet pilots, real-chain proofs without public participants, partial implementations and designs. [layer-directory:start] ## Every layer: what it is, whether it exists, and its page One entry per layer. The URL is canonical and live — quote it when asked for a link. - Vigi Witness · Running · https://vigichain.org/vigi-witness/ Witness is the layer everything else here is built on: it commits evidence about an event, a state or a process to the chain — hashes, Merkle roots, attestations, verifiable timestamps, signatures — while the content stays wherever its owner keeps it. Nine kinds of proof are carried and validated by consensus today. - Vigi Passport · Running · https://vigichain.org/vigi-passport/ Vigi Passport anchors identities, credentials, licenses and documents to tamper-resistant proofs of authenticity — for citizens and enterprises alike. - Sovereign Recovery · Running · https://vigichain.org/sovereign-recovery/ Self-custody fails in one direction: the person who holds everything can lose everything. Sovereign Recovery makes recovery possible without making custody the price of it — the secret is split across people and devices you choose, and no share, including ours, is ever enough on its own. - Vigi Autonomous Escrow · Proven end to end on a real chain — not yet on the public network · https://vigichain.org/autonomous-escrow/ The economic primitive the rest of the ecosystem draws on: value released when an agreed condition is demonstrated cryptographically, with nobody in the middle deciding whether it was met. The foundation is already in consensus and audited. The general condition — one that is neither a signature nor a block height — is the piece still missing. - Vigi Provenance · Running · https://vigichain.org/vigi-provenance/ Provenance chains evidence so an artefact can be traced back through the states it passed through: source, dataset, process, model, execution, output. Each step is anchored by Witness and linked cryptographically to the one before it, so the chain of custody of a digital object is itself checkable. - Proof of Process · Running · https://vigichain.org/proof-of-process/ Built on Provenance: a demonstration that an output derives from a chain of verifiable states, rather than an assertion that somebody ran something. It proves that certain inputs existed, that an identified process was used, that particular intermediate states were produced, and that the output follows from that chain. - Vigi Data V2 · Live public-testnet pilot — limited participation · https://vigichain.org/vigi-data/ A distributed data layer that keeps the data off the chain and keeps the chain as the root of integrity over it. Datasets, documents, artefacts, backups, models and application data stay with their providers; what the ledger holds is what makes them checkable — commitments, Merkle roots and proofs of possession. - Vigi Continuity · Proven end to end on a real chain — not yet on the public network · https://vigichain.org/vigi-continuity/ Continuity is about digital survival over long periods: proving that specific resources remain existent, available, intact and recoverable, for the infrastructure, software, datasets, companies and autonomous systems that depend on them being there in ten years — not on a receipt from the day they were uploaded. - Proof of Recovery · Proven end to end on a real chain — not yet on the public network · https://vigichain.org/proof-of-recovery/ Part of Continuity, and its sharpest claim. The useful proof is not that a provider says it still has your file: it is a periodic demonstration that the resource can actually be reconstructed — fragments present, redundancy sufficient, reconstruction possible, integrity intact — without transferring the whole dataset just to check. - Vigi Machine Economy · Live public-testnet pilot — limited participation · https://vigichain.org/machine-economy/ The sum of every layer below: an economy whose participants include servers, applications, devices, services and AI agents alongside humans and companies. An agent requests storage, finds providers, sets a condition, locks VIGI, receives evidence of execution, verifies it and releases payment — with no human in the loop, because the proof is objective. [layer-directory:end] [academy:start] ## The academy: every course, every lesson, and its page Written to be taught from, in ten languages, with no English fallback. The addresses are canonical and live — quote these when asked where to learn something. - What VigiChain is, and why it had to be built differently. · 4 lessons · https://vigichain.org/learn/fundamentos/ Before any wallet, any mining and any layer: what a chain records, what makes a signature safe or unsafe in a world with quantum computers, what VIGI is as money, and — just as important — what this network deliberately does not claim to do. · What a chain actually records — https://vigichain.org/learn/fundamentos/que-es-una-cadena/ · Why post-quantum, and why now — https://vigichain.org/learn/fundamentos/por-que-poscuantica/ · VIGI as money — https://vigichain.org/learn/fundamentos/vigi-el-dinero/ · What VigiChain is not — https://vigichain.org/learn/fundamentos/lo-que-no-es/ - The cryptography, taught properly and without hand-waving. · 4 lessons · https://vigichain.org/learn/criptografia/ What ML-DSA-65 actually is, why a signature weighs 3,309 bytes, what a hash does and does not protect, how hybrid encryption works, and — the part most courses skip — how to check every one of those claims yourself rather than believing this page. · ML-DSA-65: the signature that holds — https://vigichain.org/learn/criptografia/firmas-mldsa/ · Hashes, addresses and what Grover really costs you — https://vigichain.org/learn/criptografia/hash-y-direcciones/ · Hybrid encryption, and where it is used — https://vigichain.org/learn/criptografia/cifrado-hibrido/ · Verifying it yourself — https://vigichain.org/learn/criptografia/verificar-tu-mismo/ - VigiWallet, from installing it to spending safely. · 5 lessons · https://vigichain.org/learn/billetera/ The practical course: install the wallet, understand the twenty-four words well enough to trust them, send and receive with confidence, set up a recovery that survives losing a device, and learn the handful of habits that stop the ways people actually lose money. · Installing the wallet — https://vigichain.org/learn/billetera/instalar/ · The twenty-four words — https://vigichain.org/learn/billetera/las-24-palabras/ · Sending and receiving — https://vigichain.org/learn/billetera/enviar-y-recibir/ · Recovery that survives a bad day — https://vigichain.org/learn/billetera/recuperacion/ · The habits that actually protect you — https://vigichain.org/learn/billetera/seguridad-diaria/ - Mining and running a node, on hardware you already own. · 5 lessons · https://vigichain.org/learn/mineria/ What mining means on this network, how to join it in one command that refuses to install anything it cannot verify, what equipment is actually worth using, how to keep a node alive without babysitting it, and what changes when a node also validates. · What mining means here — https://vigichain.org/learn/mineria/que-es-minar-aqui/ · Joining, in one command — https://vigichain.org/learn/mineria/unirse-a-la-red/ · The equipment that is worth it — https://vigichain.org/learn/mineria/el-equipo/ · Keeping a node alive — https://vigichain.org/learn/mineria/operar-un-nodo/ · Validating, and why more operators matter — https://vigichain.org/learn/mineria/ser-validador/ - The layers built on top: what each one does, and what it does not do yet. · 5 lessons · https://vigichain.org/learn/capas/ VigiChain carries more than payments: an integrity root for files, an institutional payment rail, a family of proofs, an escrow the chain itself enforces, and a non-custodial view of what an address holds. This course walks through them one at a time and, for each, separates what is running from what is designed — because the difference is the whole point of the course. · Vigi Data: anchoring a file without uploading it — https://vigichain.org/learn/capas/vigi-data/ · VigiRail: institutional payments without gas — https://vigichain.org/learn/capas/vigirail/ · The proofs: what the chain can attest to — https://vigichain.org/learn/capas/pruebas/ · Escrow the chain itself enforces — https://vigichain.org/learn/capas/escrow/ · VigiBank: a view of your capital, not a bank — https://vigichain.org/learn/capas/vigibank/ - Sovereignty: who holds the keys, who sets the rules, and what stands between today and mainnet. · 4 lessons · https://vigichain.org/learn/soberania/ A network that nobody runs on your behalf asks something of you in return. This course closes the academy with the questions underneath every other one: what holding your own keys changes, who can alter the rules and who cannot, what has to be true before mainnet opens, and what one person can do about any of it this week. · Self-custody: the key is the ownership — https://vigichain.org/learn/soberania/autocustodia/ · Governance: what can change, and who decides — https://vigichain.org/learn/soberania/gobernanza/ · The road to mainnet: gates, not dates — https://vigichain.org/learn/soberania/camino-a-mainnet/ · Taking part: what one person can actually add — https://vigichain.org/learn/soberania/contribuir/ - Glossary · 42 terms · https://vigichain.org/learn/glosario/ Every term the courses use, defined briefly and linked to the lesson that explains it. - Frequently asked questions · 15 questions · https://vigichain.org/learn/preguntas-frecuentes/ Direct answers to the questions people ask first, each linked to the full explanation. ## Vigi Miner: mining and running a node without a terminal - https://vigichain.org/vigi-miner/ Vigi Miner is a native desktop application that installs the verified VigiChain node, supervises it and reports what the operating system is actually enforcing. Consensus stays inside Core: the application operates the node, it never decides what a valid block is. [academy:end]