Parallax
A peer-to-peer programmable cash system.
01Economics
Sound Money Design
Parallax is programmable gold, secured by physics. A fixed supply, Proof of Work settlement layer where scarcity is enforced by energy, not committees.
Hard Capped Supply
A finite and predictable emission schedule identical to Bitcoin's. No monetary discretion and no hidden inflation. The rules for supply are encoded in the protocol, not set by committees.
Energy Secured Value
Hashrate ties the currency to real world energy and silicon. Attacking the chain requires burning the same physics that protect it, anchoring Parallax's monetary integrity in measurable cost rather than social trust.
Fair Launch Economics
No premine, no VC allocation, no insider advantages. Every coin must be earned under the same rules.
Settlement-First Blocks
Ten minute blocks keep coordination stress low and decentralization high. Designed for durable settlement.
Programmable Gold
EVM compatible chain treating sound money as the native asset. Build contracts, dApps, and rollups on PoW.
Credibly Neutral
Anyone can run a node, mine, or build without approval. The protocol does not care who you are.
vs Bitcoin & Ethereum, feature by feature
02No forks required
Privacy and post-quantum, without a single fork
Parallax's consensus rules are meant to stay put. Because a full EVM runs on top of them, features other chains spend years debating forks for arrive here as ordinary contracts, secured by the same proof of work as every LAX.
Contract layer
Ships whenever it's ready
Post-quantum shielded pool
Private transfers of LAX and tokens. Inside the pool nothing rests on elliptic curves: STARK proofs with no trusted setup, checked on-chain by a plain contract, and notes encrypted with ML-KEM-768.
Vaults and covenants
Timelocked, reactive self-custody in the spirit of Bitcoin's proposed OP_VAULT, with a delay window and a clawback to a recovery key.
Payment channels
Instant payments signed off-chain and carried end-to-end encrypted over the Nostr network, settling on-chain only when a channel opens or closes.
Consensus layer
Ossified
- Proof of work
- 21,000,000 LAX
- 10-minute blocks
- No scheduled hard forks
Elsewhere, each of these waits on a protocol upgrade. On Parallax, it's a contract deployment that works on the chain exactly as it runs today.
03Orientation
Two Ways In
One protocol, two vantage points. Each briefing starts from what you already know — Bitcoin's monetary rules, or the EVM you build on.
04Parallax Wallet
A state-of-the-art wallet with a full node inside
Your own node, keys sealed under modern encryption, and an AI assistant that can help without ever touching a key. For Linux, macOS and Windows.
A full node, built in
One app runs a complete Parallax node. Balances and history come from your own copy of the chain, not someone else's server.
Sealed by default
Keys, recovery phrases, contacts and labels are encrypted under one password. A key is decrypted only for the moment it signs, then wiped, and the app's memory stays out of crash dumps.
Hardware and offline signing
Sign on a Ledger or Trezor, or keep a key on an air-gapped computer and sign by QR code.
Its own AI assistant server
Connect Claude or any MCP assistant. It can read your accounts and history and prepare a send, but every send waits for your approval and password, and no tool can reveal a phrase or a key.
Stealth addresses
Share one address publicly while every payment lands at a fresh one that outside observers can't link back to you.
Payment channels
Instant LAX payments signed off-chain and carried end-to-end encrypted over Nostr relays, with no payment servers. They even work with no internet, in three QR scans.
On your phone
Use the mobile wallet you already have
Parallax speaks Ethereum's language, so popular mobile wallets work with LAX once you add the network.
Browse wallets
MetaMask
Coinbase Wallet
Trust Wallet
Rabby Wallet
Atomic Wallet
CTRL Wallet
Brave Wallet
Phantom
Rainbow
Zerion05Ask Parallax
A blockchain built for the AI era
Parallax speaks to AI assistants natively: a public MCP server that reads the chain from live data, and another inside Parallax Wallet for your own accounts. Ask in plain language, get answers you can verify.
Answers from live data
It reads a Parallax node, the block explorer and the status page at the moment you ask, not what a model memorized.
Read-only by construction
Every request passes a short list of read-only methods. It cannot unlock an account, sign, or change a node's settings.
No keys, ever
The server never holds, asks for or accepts a private key.
Connect your assistant
In the Claude app or claude.ai, open Settings → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, name it Parallax and paste this URL. Custom connectors need a Claude plan that supports them.
https://mcp.parallaxprotocol.org/mcpThen ask, for example
Explain transaction 0x3afc…24f0.
It succeeded. The sender staked 1,000 APEPE into the VaultPro_v3 contract: it called stake(1000) on the vault, which pulled the tokens from the sender's balance with transferFrom. No LAX changed hands besides the fee of 0.010015 LAX.
06Tools
Built to be checked
Everything Parallax claims about itself can be verified. These are the tools that make the network readable, live.
Network status
The network's health, stated plainly
Block times, hashrate, mining concentration, supply and nodes, refreshed live. It leads with whatever is wrong, because a status page that hides problems is a press release.
Screenshot shows illustrative data. The live page shows the network as it is right now.
Block explorer
Every block since genesis
Search any block, transaction, address, token or verified contract on the chain.
07Software
The Parallax Client
The reference node software, for the command line. Run it and check every block against Parallax's rules yourself.
Decentralized
Users running a node are the ones keeping Parallax decentralized. They individually run their own Parallax full nodes, and each of those full nodes separately follows the exact same rules to decide which block chain is valid.
See the live node mapNo Voting
There's no voting or other corruptible process involved: there's just individual software following identical rules—"math"—to evaluate identical blocks and coming to identical conclusions about which block chain is valid.
This shared agreement (called consensus) allows people like you to only accept valid transactions, enforcing Parallax's rules against even the most powerful miners.
Run a Parallax node
parallaxd, parallax-cli and the parallax-wallet tool, prebuilt for Linux, macOS and Windows, or as a Docker image.
08Learn
Documentation
Find beginner guides and in-depth technical documentation about the Parallax protocol and reference client.
09Community
Open Development
Open Source
All code is open source and available on GitHub. Review, audit, and contribute to the protocol's development. Transparency is not optimism — it is resilience.
Community Driven
Parallax has no foundation, no governing body, and no privileged contributors. Development happens in the open. The protocol's rules do not change by popular demand.
Join the Community
Connect with users, developers, miners and pool operators. Get support, share ideas, and stay updated.