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MINIMA CHIP ADVANCEMENT 🧵
Minima already runs full blockchain nodes on phones and low-powered devices. Now, it’s going one step further by working on a custom chip purposely built for edge decentralization 🚀
📅 This month, the team revealed a new initiative in collaboration with two of its "largest tech partners" and two "academic leading chip design labs" (names not yet disclosed). This collaboration has a goal to design a chip that makes running a Minima node as efficient and embedded as possible on all devices 📱
🤝🏾 The team is accelerating efforts towards bringing this custom chip to life because edge devices (mobiles, routers, vehicles) need a blockchain that is:
✅ Ultra light
✅ Energy efficient
✅ Fully peer-to-peer
This chip initiative is aimed at scalability and real world use cases. It goes beyond theory, and can impact use cases like:
– 5G routers → trustless telecom networks
– Smart homes → verifiable energy & security logs
– Cars → sync without internet.
Minima is making a statement with this move to prove that it isn't an average blockchain. It is an ecosystem where there are no validators, no mining farms, and every device runs a full node fit to serve it's specific needs.
The challenge: adopting this directly into consumer hardware and millions of devices⚡️
With the prototype underway, the teams are currently working towards developing a functional chip by the end of 2025.
If successful, it could set a new standard for blockchain hardware design built for decentralization from the base to the top.
It aims to support real-time validation on devices without needing a central server
👉Also, Minima has indicated that integration trials and commercial hardware tests will follow the prototype phase. It is a bold move consistent with Minima’s DNA that revolves around minimal code, maximal decentralization. The custom chips once achieved will bring the chain one step closer to the edge. Follow @Minima_Global for more updates and information.
AI can make decisions, generate answers and trigger actions. But weeks later, can you establish what it produced and whether the evidence has changed?
This is the problem Minima is addressing with AI Logger and Integritas.
An AI used in screening job applications, assessing insurance claims or assisting medical professionals gives an output and when the output is challenged, understanding why it was wrong matters. But first, you need reliable evidence of what happened.
Conventional logs can be edited, deleted or separated from the context needed to investigate an incident.
This is where AI inference logging is important.
An inference occurs when an AI model processes an input and generates an output. An audit trail can record that event alongside relevant details, making it easier to trace and investigate later.
But recording something and proving that the record hasn't changed are two different things.
Minima's AI Logger initiative with Integritas addresses this distinction by creating a protected, independently verifiable record of captured AI inferences.
The aim is simple: when an AI output is questioned, there should be evidence to examine, not just a claim about what happened.
This verification works by cryptographic hashing which converts a record into a digital fingerprint. If the record changes, its fingerprint will ordinarily change too.
That fingerprint can be anchored to a blockchain and checked later against the original proof, providing evidence of the record's integrity.
This is anchored on the Minima blockchain. An organisation's internal database remains under its control. Blockchain anchoring provides an independently checkable, tamper evident reference that other parties can verify without relying entirely on the organisation's own records.
Minima provides the decentralised infrastructure; Integritas applies verification to real-world data and workflows.
For instance an AI system rejects an insurance claim, and the customer challenges the decision.
A verifiable audit trail could help investigators establish which output was recorded, when it was captured and whether the record has changed. This is a stronger starting point for an investigation, but it doesn't automatically prove the decision was fair or correct.
This is a crucial distinction because a cryptographic proof cannot, by itself, detect biased training data, prove an AI's reasoning was sound or establish that its original input was accurate.
It helps protect the evidence. Additional controls and investigation are still needed to assess the decision itself.
The applications extend beyond AI. Industrial fault detection, connected devices and automated workflows can all benefit from reliable records of what happened and when.
Through AI Logger and Integritas, Minima is working on the evidence layer needed to make digital activity more accountable.
Explore the AI Logger audit trail:
ailogger.integritas.technolo…
AI doesn’t need to wipe out humanity to cause a problem.
It only needs to be wrong once - and leave no reliable evidence of what happened.
AI Logger creates a protected, independently verifiable record of captured AI inferences.
When the output is challenged, keep the receipts.
Test your audit trail: ailogger.integritas.technolo…
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
AI doesn’t need to wipe out humanity to cause a problem.
It only needs to be wrong once - and leave no reliable evidence of what happened.
AI Logger creates a protected, independently verifiable record of captured AI inferences.
When the output is challenged, keep the receipts.
Test your audit trail: ailogger.integritas.technolo…
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Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
Our Public Dev Call recording from last week is now up on Youtube !
youtu.be/M9Dj61EH7SU
On this call Paddy and Barry talk about why Minima's hash-based signatures matter now that people are discussing ECDSA being broken before Q-Day, the debate about AI consciousness and AI-written code, and what's new in Minima Core
Let us know what you think in the comments on YT or the replies to this post 🔥
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
Projects I’m watching going into Q4. Not because they’re guaranteed winners but because September gave each of them something worth investigating. 💰🪙📈
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
Q3 and September With @Minima_Global
September was a busy month for Minima, but not in the usual one big announcement way.
A lot of the work was happening underneath the surface:
I>> INTEGRITAS started looking more like a product.
In Minima’s September quarterly update, the company said Integritas was tracking towards $10K in monthly recurring revenue, with potential applications expanding into industrial IoT, asset tracking, EV infrastructure, document governance, connected devices and autonomous systems.
II>> MINIMA-ON-CHIP entered its next chapter.
Phase 3 with Arm, Siemens and the University of Southampton was confirmed for September.
The target is now demonstrating the design, tape-out and physical prototypes.
The interest is now on what happens when the software leaves the development environment and meets actual silicon.
III>> EDGE STUDIO also became part of the bigger picture.
The September Q3 update formally introduced the Raspberry Pi-based Edge Studio beta (a workbench for developers experimenting with connected-device data, verification and potential monetisation).
It gives the “edge” idea something people can actually build with.
IV>> Then, MAXIMIZE ended.
More than 50 million $MINIMA had been distributed over the lifetime of the programme.
The remaining allocation was exhausted, so new Maximize contracts can no longer be created.
Existing contracts continue according to their terms. One of Minima's longest-running chapters closed.
The September developer work was where things got particularly interesting.
The latest dev call demonstrated Parlons, PandaPools and other applications, alongside a reworked MDS hub.
They're increasingly useful as tests of what developers can actually build with the stack.
V>> Minima C++ :
Still in internal testing, but the purpose is important: getting closer to the hardware and unlocking more of the chip's potential.
The story lies in what happens when the implementation has to take hardware constraints seriously.
VII>> Minima Core also kept moving.
The team reported significant RAM improvements, particularly relevant to MegaMMR nodes. As memory requirements determine what hardware can realistically run software, this optimisation brings about good possibilities.
VIII>> There was also progress on KeyUses.
A potential fix using the block number as a counter was demonstrated and put into testing ahead of a wider release.
September also brought another architectural idea: Applications don't necessarily have to live inside the traditional MiniDapp model.
The team has been exploring native applications and services, including Android APKs and Windows services, communicating with Minima through operating-system mechanisms.
IX>> There was also an important piece of transparency.
Minima disclosed a security incident affecting its Web Wallet infrastructure.
The company said the incident occurred in May, affected some users who logged in between March 20 and May 8, and did not compromise the Minima blockchain itself.
The affected infrastructure was replaced and the company outlined its response in the September quarterly update.
September and Q3 weren't characterised by slogans of why blockchain belongs on phones.
It was a transition of making the machinery underneath those ideas more real.
Products, revenue, hardware, applications, memory, cryptography, developer tooling, and a few things that simply had to be fixed
Q3 and September With @Minima_Global
September was a busy month for Minima, but not in the usual one big announcement way.
A lot of the work was happening underneath the surface:
I>> INTEGRITAS started looking more like a product.
In Minima’s September quarterly update, the company said Integritas was tracking towards $10K in monthly recurring revenue, with potential applications expanding into industrial IoT, asset tracking, EV infrastructure, document governance, connected devices and autonomous systems.
II>> MINIMA-ON-CHIP entered its next chapter.
Phase 3 with Arm, Siemens and the University of Southampton was confirmed for September.
The target is now demonstrating the design, tape-out and physical prototypes.
The interest is now on what happens when the software leaves the development environment and meets actual silicon.
III>> EDGE STUDIO also became part of the bigger picture.
The September Q3 update formally introduced the Raspberry Pi-based Edge Studio beta (a workbench for developers experimenting with connected-device data, verification and potential monetisation).
It gives the “edge” idea something people can actually build with.
IV>> Then, MAXIMIZE ended.
More than 50 million $MINIMA had been distributed over the lifetime of the programme.
The remaining allocation was exhausted, so new Maximize contracts can no longer be created.
Existing contracts continue according to their terms. One of Minima's longest-running chapters closed.
The September developer work was where things got particularly interesting.
The latest dev call demonstrated Parlons, PandaPools and other applications, alongside a reworked MDS hub.
They're increasingly useful as tests of what developers can actually build with the stack.
V>> Minima C++ :
Still in internal testing, but the purpose is important: getting closer to the hardware and unlocking more of the chip's potential.
The story lies in what happens when the implementation has to take hardware constraints seriously.
VII>> Minima Core also kept moving.
The team reported significant RAM improvements, particularly relevant to MegaMMR nodes. As memory requirements determine what hardware can realistically run software, this optimisation brings about good possibilities.
VIII>> There was also progress on KeyUses.
A potential fix using the block number as a counter was demonstrated and put into testing ahead of a wider release.
September also brought another architectural idea: Applications don't necessarily have to live inside the traditional MiniDapp model.
The team has been exploring native applications and services, including Android APKs and Windows services, communicating with Minima through operating-system mechanisms.
IX>> There was also an important piece of transparency.
Minima disclosed a security incident affecting its Web Wallet infrastructure.
The company said the incident occurred in May, affected some users who logged in between March 20 and May 8, and did not compromise the Minima blockchain itself.
The affected infrastructure was replaced and the company outlined its response in the September quarterly update.
September and Q3 weren't characterised by slogans of why blockchain belongs on phones.
It was a transition of making the machinery underneath those ideas more real.
Products, revenue, hardware, applications, memory, cryptography, developer tooling, and a few things that simply had to be fixed
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
The latest Public Dev Call recording is up!
A state-of-the-DEXes deep dive, a live Atomix demo, PandaPools yield, and a promising Chip update. 🎥
Watch the full recording here 👇
youtu.be/MhhPOfCs2tQ
Let us know what you thought in the replies or YT comments 🔥
These are the names/projects I'd keep on the Q4 watchlist, not because they’re guaranteed winners but September gave each of them something worth investigating:
1. $LINK — Chainlink
+8% on Sept. 29 alone, with ~$1.39B turnover.
CCIP and tokenized-asset infrastructure make LINK interesting beyond price action.
2. $AAVE — Aave
DeFi came back into focus, with AAVE up 11% on Sept. 29.
Aave V4 is now putting tokenized stocks to work as collateral on Base. The bigger story is DeFi becoming connected to tokenized financial assets.
3. $NEAR — NEAR Protocol
NEAR had one of the stronger September runs among major alts, while its Intents infrastructure has been gaining attention.
It begs the question 👉🏾 Can chain abstraction become actual transaction volume rather than another crypto narrative?
4. $HYPE — Hyperliquid
HYPE pushed above $90 during September and Hyperliquid continued expanding its on-chain trading infrastructure.
Perps, borrowing and eventually broader financial products make this one worth tracking closely.
5. $ZEC — Zcash
One of September's biggest stories.
ZEC became a major part of the altcoin ETF market, while shielded supply reached almost 5M ZEC.
Privacy is clearly back on the market's radar. Now we watch whether that survives beyond the current cycle.
6. $SOL — Solana
SOL reached a fresh quarterly high of $124.62 on Sept. 27.
More importantly, Solana ETF volume has remained substantial, while its ecosystem continues producing new trading and tokenization infrastructure.
7. $RAY — Raydium
Raydium was one of September's more interesting infrastructure plays.
It rallied alongside the StonkFun/LaunchLab integration, showing how quickly new issuance and trading activity can flow into Solana's existing liquidity layer.
8. $JUP — Jupiter
Jupiter also benefited from the Solana trading/launchpad wave in September.
Worth watching because the broader thesis is moving beyond a DEX to aggregation, liquidity routing and execution become increasingly important as on-chain markets fragment.
9. $GRT — The Graph
GRT jumped 18% on Sept. 29 while much of the market was down.
The reason to watch it isn't one day's move but relevance as Web3 applications become more complex, indexing and data access become increasingly important.
10. $XLM — Stellar
XLM was up roughly 8% over seven days in the Sept. 28 market snapshot.
Its importance going forward is tied closely to payments and tokenized assets rather than the usual L1 speculation.
11. $BCH — Bitcoin Cash
BCH was up more than 16% over seven days in the Sept. 28 snapshot.
It's an interesting reminder that older networks can still attract capital when market conditions rotate toward established, liquid assets.
12. $STONK — StonkFun
One of September's wildest smaller-cap moves.
STONK briefly jumped more than 250% in 24 hours after StonkFun integrated with Raydium LaunchLab. Interesting? Yes but not proven.
That distinction matters with smaller caps.
The bigger picture:
September's strongest themes revolved around:
→ On-chain trading
→ Tokenized assets
→ Privacy
→ DeFi
→ Chain abstraction
→ Blockchain data infrastructure
→ Institutional access
For Q4, I'd watch whether these projects turn September's attention into actual users, volume, revenue, and infrastructure people keep using after the narrative moves elsewhere.
As always, DYOR and this is NFA.
Projects I’m watching going into Q4. Not because they’re guaranteed winners but because September gave each of them something worth investigating. 💰🪙📈
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
Minima is moving from technology to traction.
⚡ Integritas tracking towards $10k MRR
🥧 Edge Studio beta live on Raspberry Pi
🔬 Minima-on-Chip Phase 3 confirmed
Plus commercial targets, financing and an open account of the Web Wallet incident.
Read more: minima.global/post/q3-commun…
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
Work continues tomorrow, September 1, for the Minima team as they head back to the University of Southampton to continue the next phase of chip development by putting Minima onto real silicon rather than an FPGA. This will mark the distinction between getting the blockchain to run on a chip design and getting it to run on an actual chip.
Though FPGA as a programmable hardware is useful for testing and validating hardware designs (because engineers can change the logic without manufacturing a new chip), it isn’t the finished product.
Moving to silicon opens the blockchain to how the actual chip will behave under real operating conditions.
In terms of timing, power consumption, heat, reliability, throughput and how efficiently the hardware actually performs the work it was designed to accelerate.
These are difficult things to accurately measure until this phase is complete and for Minima, one of the interesting parts of this work is cryptography.
Previous development has explored hardware acceleration for SHA3, as one of the cryptographic primitives used by the protocol.
Putting that logic into silicon creates the opportunity to examine what dedicated hardware can actually deliver.
Because Minima was designed around the premise that a blockchain node shouldn't necessarily require a server or a warehouse of machines. The long-term question is whether blockchain infrastructure can become small, efficient and inexpensive enough to live much closer to the edge and that could mean very different things depending on the hardware, especially devices that already have processors but aren't traditionally thought of as blockchain infrastructure. The chip work is ultimately going to explore that boundary.
There has already been a useful step in that direction. The Southampton project involved porting Minima from Java to C++, deploying it on Arm based cores and experimenting with custom hardware acceleration. Now it's going to be more tangible by moving to silicon.
So, tomorrow marks the beginning of another engineering cycle. Take what has been tested in programmable hardware and move it into manufactured silicon, measure what happens, make improvements and iterate.
When successful, the outcome won't simply be “Minima has a chip.” It will be the answers that come from putting the protocol onto dedicated hardware: How small can the node become? How little power can it use? How much computation can be moved into hardware? And where does that make economic sense?
The Southampton work is one step toward finding out.
Work continues tomorrow, September 1, for the Minima team as they head back to the University of Southampton to continue the next phase of chip development by putting Minima onto real silicon rather than an FPGA. This will mark the distinction between getting the blockchain to run on a chip design and getting it to run on an actual chip.
Though FPGA as a programmable hardware is useful for testing and validating hardware designs (because engineers can change the logic without manufacturing a new chip), it isn’t the finished product.
Moving to silicon opens the blockchain to how the actual chip will behave under real operating conditions.
In terms of timing, power consumption, heat, reliability, throughput and how efficiently the hardware actually performs the work it was designed to accelerate.
These are difficult things to accurately measure until this phase is complete and for Minima, one of the interesting parts of this work is cryptography.
Previous development has explored hardware acceleration for SHA3, as one of the cryptographic primitives used by the protocol.
Putting that logic into silicon creates the opportunity to examine what dedicated hardware can actually deliver.
Because Minima was designed around the premise that a blockchain node shouldn't necessarily require a server or a warehouse of machines. The long-term question is whether blockchain infrastructure can become small, efficient and inexpensive enough to live much closer to the edge and that could mean very different things depending on the hardware, especially devices that already have processors but aren't traditionally thought of as blockchain infrastructure. The chip work is ultimately going to explore that boundary.
There has already been a useful step in that direction. The Southampton project involved porting Minima from Java to C++, deploying it on Arm based cores and experimenting with custom hardware acceleration. Now it's going to be more tangible by moving to silicon.
So, tomorrow marks the beginning of another engineering cycle. Take what has been tested in programmable hardware and move it into manufactured silicon, measure what happens, make improvements and iterate.
When successful, the outcome won't simply be “Minima has a chip.” It will be the answers that come from putting the protocol onto dedicated hardware: How small can the node become? How little power can it use? How much computation can be moved into hardware? And where does that make economic sense?
The Southampton work is one step toward finding out.
An idiot in motion will get further than a genius at rest.
Drink water, take a walk and avoid "Analysis Paralysis"
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
REMINDER:
The Pi Edge Studio is ready for testers.
Minima is taking Integritas closer to the edge with a Raspberry Pi Workbench built for realworld testing.
We need everyone willing to test, experiment and share feedback
minima.zite.so
REMINDER:
The Pi Edge Studio is ready for testers.
Minima is taking Integritas closer to the edge with a Raspberry Pi Workbench built for realworld testing.
We need everyone willing to test, experiment and share feedback
minima.zite.so
Web3knows ⚜ retweeted
I* Most blockchain clients move in one direction with more features, services and background processes whereas Minima is doing the opposite by stripping stuff away
At the centre of this network is Minima Core—the lightweight software responsible for running the blockchain itself
I* Most blockchain clients move in one direction with more features, services and background processes whereas Minima is doing the opposite by stripping stuff away
At the centre of this network is Minima Core—the lightweight software responsible for running the blockchain itself
V* Another benefit is that apps now communicate through Android Intents instead of relying on local web services.
It's less complexity, cleaner integration with fewer moving parts that opens the ecosystem.
Instead of waiting for official apps, anyone can build their own wallet,