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AYA CORE is a post-quantum Layer-1 blockchain. AYA is the native asset of the AYA Network. The entire supply is anchored to the complete canonical genesis text. This page explains what it is, why it stands apart, and how to take part as a validator.

What we can do

• Transfer crypto in seconds — 30 seconds maximum processing time.
• See an incoming transaction and confirm its receipt.
• Recall a transfer as long as the recipient has not confirmed it by pressing Accept.
• Send crypto with a built-in condition: funds are credited only after the recipient enters a code.
• Create a cold wallet as a QR code — no extra hardware needed. The QR is activated by a secret phrase the owner creates and keeps in their head. Two types: (1) a cold wallet credited to whichever wallet scans the QR; (2) a cold wallet credited to a fixed address, no matter which wallet scans the QR.
• Revoke created QR cold wallets.
• Exchange accumulated small tokens from different lineages into whole ones.
• Create P2P sell orders — and cancel them at any time.

How we are built

• Post-quantum cryptography: ML-DSA-87 signatures (NIST standard FIPS 204). There are no elliptic curves — the part vulnerable to quantum computers — anywhere in the system.
• The entire supply is anchored to an immutable canonical genesis text: 635,835 symbols. Every token is part of a specific symbol and carries its number (its lineage) forever.
• Total Supply is fixed forever. Printing more tokens is impossible in principle — it would require changing the text itself.
• 1 Symbol = 1,000,000 AYA; 1 AYA = 10,000 halala.
• Nothing is ever burned: halala are never destroyed.
• Zero-trust: nodes never take each other's word. Every network state is confirmed by a validator quorum and cryptographic proofs (zk-STARK).
• The wallet is non-custodial: keys are created and live only on your device. The server never sees or stores them.
• No separate gas token: the fee is taken in the same token you send.

How to use it

• Open ayacoin.online — the wallet runs right in your browser; nothing to install.
• Create a wallet: a PIN, a backup, and — optionally — a 13th word you keep in your head.
• Receive: show your address or QR code.
• Send: recipient's address → confirm → credited in seconds, 30 at most.
• Send with a code: funds are credited only after the recipient enters the code.
• Cold wallet: create a QR right in the wallet, print it, store it offline. Activate it with the secret phrase.
• Recall: until the recipient presses Accept, you can take the transfer back.
• Small-change exchange: accumulated small halala from different lineages are exchanged into whole AYA in one click.
• P2P: create a sell order — and cancel it at any moment.

What makes us different

• Post-quantum protection from day one — not "we'll migrate when quantum computers arrive."
• Supply is anchored to an immutable text, not to a committee's decision.
• Every token has a lineage: lines never mix; every halala is part of a specific symbol.
• A transfer can be recalled until the recipient confirms it — protection from address mistakes that classic blockchains don't have.
• Cold storage with no special hardware: a sheet of paper and a phrase in your head.
• No second token "for fees" — nothing extra to buy or top up.
• It is its own post-quantum network, not ERC-20/BEP-20: the wallet cannot be imported into MetaMask or Binance — and that is part of the protection.
• Privacy with selective disclosure: a temporary view key — you decide who sees what.

Everything below explains each of these points in detail — read as much or as little as you need.

What AYA CORE is

Most blockchains begin from an arbitrary genesis block — a number chosen by its founders. AYA CORE begins from something no one can reproduce or replace: the entire immutable genesis text, the root of supply and lineage for the whole system.

The genesis text defines what exists: the total supply and the lineage of every token. It is not a cryptographic primitive — not a cipher, not a key, not a signature scheme. AYA CORE uses standard public-key cryptography, chosen post-quantum: all signatures are ML-DSA-87 (NIST FIPS 204), a lattice-based scheme, and state is committed with SHA-256 Merkle roots and zk-STARK proofs. Quantum resistance comes from these primitives, not from the text.

The genesis text is decomposed into 635,835 symbols across 114 suras. Each symbol is a single, unique token with a fixed total supply. Nothing can be printed beyond what the text itself contains. The supply is finite by its very foundation — not by a promise, but by structure.

Why it is unique

• Finite by foundation. The number of tokens equals the number of symbols in the genesis text. No new issuance is possible — there is no minting function, ever.
• Rooted in the eternal. The genesis is the complete canonical genesis text, a foundation that cannot be copied, forged, or reissued by any competitor.
• Verifiable, not trusted. Every fact about the chain — position, supply, ownership — can be proven mathematically. You are never asked to take our word for it.
• Post-quantum from day one. No elliptic curves anywhere. The system is built to withstand quantum adversaries that will break today's ordinary cryptography.

True ownership

No one truly owns fiat money — ownership of it is an illusion. States issue currency, and states can cancel it, freeze it, or inflate it away. What you hold in a bank is a promise, and promises can be revoked.

Real ownership has always meant something else: gold and silver — things you can hide and quietly move, things no signature of any official can take from a distance. Bitcoin came close to this ideal, as long as it stays on original Bitcoin wallets rather than on an exchange. But the quantum threat looms over it: the moment you make a transfer, your public key is exposed, and a future quantum computer will be able to break it.

AYA is safe the way gold is safe. Only you own your tokens — even the blockchain where they live cannot own them. The owner is whoever holds the private keys and the secret phrase kept in their head. Without your secret phrase, no one in the world can touch your tokens. You own them in the literal sense of the word. The only exception is one you create yourself: tokens you lock into an escrow deal follow that deal's rules — including arbitration of a disputed market trade — until it completes or expires.

Never reveal your secret phrase. Anyone who asks for it is a fraud — no exception. No letter from "the blockchain", no message from "officials" or "support" is ever genuine. The system is built so that no one needs your phrase — which is exactly why only a thief would ever ask.

The post-quantum design

Conventional blockchains rely on elliptic-curve signatures, which a sufficiently large quantum computer would break. AYA CORE avoids them entirely. Its cryptographic stack is chosen from standards designed to resist quantum attack:

• ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204, NIST security level 5) for all signatures.
• Rescue / Rp64_256 hashing inside zero-knowledge STARK proofs for compact, verifiable state.
• Argon2id for key derivation, hardened against brute-force attack.
• SHA-256 Merkle state anchored with post-quantum signatures — no curve-based assumptions.

Every guarantee that matters is public and verifiable: the algorithms are open standards (FIPS 204, RFC 9106), and every rule is enforced by validators mathematically — nothing depends on trusting our code or our word.

Halala, AYA, and Symbols

Value in AYA CORE is measured in three nested units. One Symbol equals one million AYA; one AYA equals ten thousand halala. The halala is the smallest indivisible unit. Balances are tracked per symbol lineage, so tokens of different origins never blend — identity is preserved down to the smallest unit.

Open the wallet and this stops being an abstraction. Where other cryptocurrencies show you a single faceless number, AYA shows you what you actually hold: halala of different lineages, each tracing back to one specific symbol of the genesis text. Sending a payment feels like opening a physical wallet — you see your banknotes, each with its own origin, and choose which ones to spend. Pay with small notes and assemble the sum, or hand over one large note and receive change. Your money is not a balance on someone's screen; it is a collection of individual, identifiable things — the way real money used to be.

Using the wallet

The AYA wallet runs in your browser. It keeps your keys on your own device — no account, no server holds your funds. This section walks through everything from first launch to sending your first transaction.

1 · Creating your wallet

On first launch, choose Create your wallet. You set up two things:

• A picture and a 6-digit PIN. Pick one of the offered pictures and choose a six-digit PIN, then repeat it. Together they unlock the wallet on this device only.
• Your secret phrase — the 13th word. You choose your own secret phrase and type it in. Memorize it. Do not write it down or store it anywhere. It lives only in your head, and it is what ultimately protects and restores your wallet.

The picture and PIN are local convenience. The secret phrase is the true key — lose it and no one, including us, can recover your wallet.

Choose a phrase that is easy for you to remember and impossible for anyone to guess. The best choice is a personal event told as one vivid sentence that was never published anywhere: "in the summer of ninety-four Ruslan and I sank grandpa's moped in the irrigation ditch". A striking image of your own works too: "the owl has eyes like the headlights of a car". Such a phrase stays in memory for years precisely because it is yours — and it exists in no text in the world.

Never take the phrase from any published text — lines of poems or songs, quotations, fragments of scripture, famous sayings. Never use facts of your biography — names of teachers or pets, maiden names, memorable dates. Everything ever published has long been collected into dictionaries for automated guessing, and biography can be dug up through social networks. To a thief who has stolen your blob, a dictionary phrase opens it within hours; a personal unpublished sentence never does.

This is why the phrase must never be written down. Even if someone obtains your backup blob, it is completely useless without the phrase — the blob is only an encrypted shell, and the phrase is the one thing that opens it. The blob you can store; the phrase you keep in your head alone.

2 · Saving your backup (blob)

Your wallet gives you a backup blob — a block of text that represents your encrypted wallet. Copy it and keep it somewhere safe (a password manager, an encrypted note). The blob alone is useless without your secret phrase, so the two together are what let you restore on a new device.

• Keep the blob stored safely — it can be copied and saved.
• Keep the secret phrase only in memory — never written.
• To restore later: choose Restore from backup, paste the blob, enter the secret phrase, then set a new picture and PIN for the new device.

3 · Unlocking and the PIN

Each time you open the wallet, select your picture and enter your 6-digit PIN, then press Unlock. The PIN never leaves your device; it simply decrypts the wallet stored locally.

4 · Reading your balance

Once unlocked, the home screen shows your address and your balance. Balances are tracked per symbol lineage — you see how much you hold of each distinct symbol, since tokens of different origins are kept separate by design. Use the Copy control to copy your address for receiving funds.

5 · Sending a transaction

Open Send / Pay, then:

• Enter the recipient address (or scan their QR code).
• Enter the amount to send.
• Confirm. The wallet signs the transaction on your device with your post-quantum key and submits it to the network.
• A receipt appears on the same screen once the network accepts it.

A tiny network fee (one halala per line) is applied. Nothing is ever destroyed — fees move to the network Treasury.

Every send is recallable. A transfer does not land in the recipient's balance by itself — it arrives as a pending entry that the recipient must Accept. Until they do, the transfer stays listed under Pending (not yet accepted) in your Send window, each entry with a Revoke button. One tap returns the funds to you, minus the one-halala network fee. Once the recipient accepts, the transfer is final and can no longer be recalled.

This is what makes a typo survivable. On most networks, funds sent to a mistyped address are gone forever. Here, if no one accepts the transfer, you simply take it back — the cost of the mistake is one halala.

Large transfers ask for your secret phrase. Once your outgoing transfers in a session add up to 10 AYA or more, the wallet requires your secret phrase before signing further. Even if someone gets hold of your device while the wallet is unlocked, they cannot move a significant amount without the phrase that lives only in your head.

6 · Receiving funds

Open the Receive screen to display your address as a QR code. Let the sender scan it, or share your copied address directly. Anyone can send to your address; only your keys can spend from it.

An incoming transfer first appears on your home screen as a highlighted line — +N halala from … — with an Accept button. Tap Accept and the funds join your balance; until you do, the sender can still recall the transfer. Accepting costs the standard one-halala network fee.

7 · Secure Send

Secure Send creates a transfer that the recipient must actively claim, rather than a direct push to an address. The wallet produces a code (and QR) that you hand to the recipient. When they enter it in their own wallet, they prove ownership cryptographically and the funds move to them. This is useful when you want the recipient to confirm receipt, or when you don't yet have their address.

8 · Cold Wallet and bearer codes

The Cold Wallet screen lets you lock funds to a bearer code — a cryptographic cheque. Whoever enters the code claims the funds into their own wallet, regardless of who paid. This makes codes transferable: you can hand one to another person directly. The funds are genuinely frozen on the chain until claimed, so there is no risk of double-spending.

9 · Escrow

The Escrow screen shows incoming and outgoing code-locked transfers — the ones created by Secure Send and bearer codes. From here you can accept transfers sent to you, or return ones you sent that were not yet claimed. Escrow is what makes Secure Send and bearer codes safe: value is held on the chain, provably, until the right party acts. (Ordinary recallable sends do not appear here — they live on the home screen and in the Send window.)

Market trades use a second kind of escrow. When you publish a sell order, the tokens move to a neutral escrow address whose key is created inside the platform and never leaves it — neither the buyer nor the seller holds it. You can revoke an unsold order at any time and the tokens return to you. If a trade is disputed, a human arbiter reviews the payment evidence and resolves it one of two ways: release to the buyer or refund to the seller. Nothing is decided automatically, and nothing outside that one deal is ever touched.

10 · Exchange — dust into whole AYA

After enough payments, every wallet accumulates dust: notes smaller than one AYA (10,000 halala). The Exchange screen turns that dust back into whole AYA notes in a single tap.

Open Exchange and the wallet shows you the plan before anything is signed: how much dust you hold across all your lineages, and exactly what you will receive. Press Build plan, review the numbers, then Confirm.

The exchanger consolidates all your dust at once and pays you back in whole notes of exactly 10,000 halala each, plus at most one small remainder note. The whole operation costs 2 halala flat — one to the exchanger, one as the network fee — no matter how many dust notes you feed it.

The exchanger itself is an address without a key. Its reserve is spent only by a protocol rule that every validator verifies mathematically: no one — not even the operators — can take from it, and the equation guarantees the reserve can never be drained. Note that the whole notes you receive come from the exchanger's reserve, so they carry the lineages of the reserve — your dust joins the reserve in return, identity preserved on both sides.

11 · Where to spend — Bayt AYA

Bayt AYA (baytaya.com) is the first merchant of the AYA ecosystem — an online store where goods can be paid for in AYA directly from your wallet. More merchants will join over time: any business can accept AYA without intermediaries, because a payment is simply a transfer to their address.

Becoming a validator

AYA CORE is a consortium network by construction. Validators are admitted by a license bound to their post-quantum identity key — not by wealth, and not anonymously. This is a deliberate choice for a network built for regulated finance: everyone who seals an epoch is known, accountable, and technically vetted. Decentralization here grows by federation: with every independent validator, the founders' share of consensus shrinks arithmetically under the two-thirds quorum rule. We do not promise a permissionless network — we promise a growing circle of accountable participants. Validator onboarding includes partner identification and the signing of a legally binding agreement; the technical license is issued after it.

Compliance is layered, like the network itself. The protocol is software: in line with FATF guidance, developing and publishing software is not, by itself, virtual-asset service provider activity. A validator license is a technical admission to consensus — a cryptographic file bound to the node's identity key; it is not a government authorization and does not replace one. To take part in consensus we require no government's approval and do not verify any. Regulated activity lives in the service layer: exchanges, custody, brokerage, fiat gateways, merchant processing. Anyone building such services on AYA CORE — validator, partner, or independent operator — bears full responsibility for complying with the laws of their own jurisdiction, including any licensing those services require. We do not perform such checks, and we say it plainly: assess your country's regulatory requirements before launching a service.

Validators run the software that keeps the network honest — verifying blocks, participating in consensus, and safeguarding the integrity of the chain. Running a validator is open to those willing to operate a reliable node.

There is no staking requirement. You do not lock up capital to participate — validators are admitted by license, not by wealth. What the network asks of you is reliability and honesty, and every dishonest action is mathematically detectable by every other node.

The path to running a validator

1. Prepare a server. Any reliable machine meeting the minimum requirements below — a modest VPS is enough. No specialized hardware, no GPUs.
2. Contact the team for a license. Each validator carries a license bound to its post-quantum identity key. During onboarding you receive the license and the corpus of the genesis text, and you can verify the corpus yourself: derive its Genesis Hash on your own machine and compare it against the published root. You trust mathematics, not us.
3. Build the node from source. The node is built in Rust directly on your server. We provide the repository and step-by-step build commands during onboarding.
4. Create your identity. On first start the node generates its ML-DSA-87 identity key, protected by a passphrase only you know. Import your license, open the two network ports, and start the service.
5. Join consensus. The node connects to its peers, synchronizes state, and begins verifying and voting. From that moment your server is one of the guardians of the chain — every epoch it checks every proof and signs what it has verified.

Network fees (one halala per line of every transaction) are routed by consensus to the partner gateway the sender belongs to — see "Partner gateways" below. Sealing epochs itself carries no reward: committee membership is responsibility, not income.

Minimum server requirements

• CPU: 4 cores (for STARK verification and consensus).
• RAM: 8 GB (the full text is held in memory alongside the state databases).
• Storage: 40 GB SSD (growing state plus logs).
• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 LTS.
• Network: a static public IP with ports 7777 (binary protocol) and 7778 (peer-to-peer) open.

How a node runs

Each validator holds its own copy of the genesis text and derives every public fact — a symbol's position, its codepoint — from that text directly, never trusting another party's claim. On startup the node loads the full text (roughly 75 seconds) and unlocks its ML-DSA-87 identity key. It then runs continuously under the system service manager, restarting automatically if interrupted.

Each validator carries a license that authorizes it to take part in consensus. The application process is being finalized — if you intend to run a validator, please contact the team and we will guide you through licensing and setup.

Partner gateways — your users, your fees

The network separates two roles. The signing committee is a small, selective circle of nodes whose signatures finalize epochs; it is governance and accountability, and it earns nothing. Partner gateways are full nodes with an on-chain gateway license; their number is unlimited, and they are the economic layer of the network.

The rule is simple and permanent: the first incoming transaction binds a user's address to the gateway it arrived through, forever. From that moment, the fee of every transaction this user makes routes to that gateway's payout address — enforced by consensus, not by a contract. When a user of yours funds someone entirely new, the new address inherits your gateway: your community grows as a branch of the network, and the branch stays yours. Bindings are never rewritten — by anyone.

Gateway licenses live on-chain. Issuing and revoking one is a signed protocol transaction verified by every node; the registry, the license state, and the gateway's liveness are facts of the shared journal. A gateway proves presence with a periodic signed heartbeat: while its node is online, the fees of its tree flow to it; if it goes silent or its license is revoked, fees temporarily route to the network default — and the moment the license or the heartbeat returns, the stream returns by itself, because the bindings never moved.

A partner has no access of any kind to their users' funds — neither technical nor administrative. Balances move only under the owner's post-quantum signature. The partner earns the fees of their tree's activity, and that is all. If a partner ever leaves the network, their users' payments continue without interruption.

Partner inquiries: support@brunokapital.com. Read the full story: Your Users, Your Fees.

No separate gas token

Many networks force you to hold a second, separate token just to pay transaction fees — and that fee token often grows ever more expensive, so you must keep buying and topping it up before you can move your own funds. AYA CORE does not work this way.

The network fee is taken from the token itself. There is no second currency to acquire, hold, or refill. You never find yourself unable to send funds because you forgot to stock up on a separate "gas" coin. One token, one balance, no hidden dependency.

The reserve, under glass

The supply is fixed at genesis: 635,835 symbols, anchored to a canonical text. What has not yet been released to holders sits in the genesis reserve, controlled by the issuer — and its size is not a quarterly report, it is a ledger fact anyone can check at any moment through the public AYA CORE Explorer. The reserve can only shrink: issuance does not exist as code.

Releases from the reserve are signed, typed operations visible to every node before they apply. The treasury is a service address, not somebody's wallet: funds leave it only through an explicit signed operation that the whole network verifies. Nothing can be burned, nothing can be minted, nothing sold can be taken back.

The primary price is published and identical for everyone — no insider discounts, no dark pools. The treasury publishes two-way quotes — an issuance price and a buy-back price — so holders always have a known exit. We do not trade on third-party venues and we do not support prices there.

Green by design

Bitcoin secures itself by burning electricity. Its miners race one another with warehouses of specialized hardware, and the network consumes more power than many entire countries — by design, forever. Ethereum abandoned mining in 2022 precisely because that cost had become indefensible.

AYA CORE has no mining at all. There is no race, no lottery, no specialized hardware. Validators verify post-quantum signatures and mathematical proofs, then agree on the result — work an ordinary small server performs in milliseconds. A validator node draws about as much power as a household lightbulb.

And because the supply is fixed by the foundation text, no energy is ever spent "creating" tokens. Verification replaces competition. The environmental footprint of the whole network is essentially that of a handful of web servers — not a power plant.

How AYA CORE compares

AYA CORE is its own independent post-quantum network — not a token issued on top of another chain. This has concrete consequences for how you use it:

• Not an exchange token. An AYA wallet cannot be "activated" or imported on Binance, MetaMask, or other platforms built for elliptic-curve chains. AYA is not an ERC-20 or BEP-20 token — it lives on its own network with its own post-quantum keys.
• You hold your own keys. No exchange, no custodian, no server holds your funds. Only your keys spend from your address.
• Finite, not inflationary. Unlike tokens that can be minted or staked into existence, AYA's supply is fixed by its foundation — there is no issuance mechanism at all.
• Quantum-resistant by design. Ordinary chains rely on cryptography a future quantum computer could break. AYA CORE is built from post-quantum standards from the ground up.
• Verifiable, not trusted. Every claim about supply and ownership can be checked mathematically, rather than taken on faith.

A note on tone

AYA CORE is not a speculative instrument and makes no promise of profit. Its value is rooted in permanence and verifiability, not in hype. We build with respect for the text at its foundation, and we invite you to verify every claim for yourself.