The network’s native token will initially be implemented as an Ethereum ERC-20, powering a public utility providing fast (near client-server speed), secure (postquantum), private (ITS), chain-agnostic (universally available base layer infrastructure), and leaderless (fully decentralized) processing, with the objective of both enhancing existing blockchains and offering native network services with properties unique to a newcryptographic primitive
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