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Animica — post-quantum L1
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Live mainnet · Post-quantum L1 · Native coin ANM

An open-source proof-of-work blockchain with post-quantum signatures

Animica mainnet has run since April 2026. Every account signs with ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204), a NIST-standardised lattice signature, instead of ECDSA. Smart contracts are written in a deterministic subset of Python. Consensus is PoIES: hash work gates each block, and the protocol defines how verified useful-work evidence — AI inference, attested quantum randomness — can be credited toward the same threshold.

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pip install animica

The complete client — mine, run a node, use the wallet, deploy Python contracts, run animica up (the unified PoW + useful-work + GPU train/serve + Studio miner), and use the Studio SDK. The native CPU miner is included by default. Want the kitchen sink? pip install "animica[all]" adds every optional extra: Qt wallet QR codes, the full distributed Studio client (cloudpickle + omni-sdk for on-chain ANM escrow), and all pinned server/operator deps.

  • Post-quantum ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) signatures
  • Contracts Deterministic Python VM
  • Consensus PoIES useful work
  • Mainnet Live — explorer.animica.org
Learn · 24 guides · 51k words

Understand the chain before you use it

The Learn section is a set of long-form guides written from Animica's own specifications and documentation — not marketing. Each article lists the repository files it was written from. If you only read three: What is Animica?, why ML-DSA-65, and how transactions and fees work.

New · Animica AI · for businesses & AI agents · Live

An OpenAI-compatible API for your SaaS & AI agents.

Businesses and agent builders ship on Animica AI — a drop-in, OpenAI-compatible API. Point the official OpenAI SDK at our base URL, swap in an Animica key, and your existing chat, streaming, tool-calling, and embeddings code runs unchanged — exactly what autonomous agents need. Go to production with per-key spend caps, usage analytics, and signed webhooks. Start free with monthly free tokens; pay with card, PayPal, or crypto. Manage it all at console.animica.org.

Open the console — get an API key Pricing API reference
base_url="https://api.animica.org/v1"

Two lines change: base_url → https://api.animica.org/v1 and api_key → your Animica key — no rewrites. Or use the native SDKs: npm i @animica/sdk and pip install animica-ai. Businesses sign up, mint keys, and watch usage and billing at console.animica.org.

  • anm-fast-8bLow-latency chat
  • anm-code-7bCode generation
  • anm-pro-70bFrontier reasoning
  • anm-bittensor-routerRoutes to Bittensor subnets
  • anm-embedEmbeddings

Real streaming

Token-by-token SSE on /chat/completions with stream=true — first tokens in milliseconds, not after the full response lands. Wire it straight into your existing chat UI.

Spend controls

Per-key rate limits and monthly spend caps, org-level budgets with auto-recharge, and idempotency keys so retries never double-bill. Fund it with ANM or crypto credits — no surprise overages.

Usage analytics

Break usage down per key, per model, and per day in the console, or export the raw numbers to CSV for finance and customer billing.

Signed webhooks

HMAC-signed webhooks for usage, billing, and budget events — verify the signature and react inside your own backend.

New · Animica Studio

Serverless compute, paid in ANM

Write a Python function, add a decorator, and run it on Animica's decentralized GPU & CPU fleet — Modal-style developer experience, settled on-chain. The same rigs that mine and train ANM now run your functions.

Open Studio -> Read the docs
animica studio run app.py::train --gpu A100 
@app.function(gpu="A100")
def train(seed): ...

train.remote(42)   # one call on the fleet
train.map(range(128)) # fan-out
New · Desktop app

Animica Studio — agentic code studio

A local AI coding IDE powered by Animica: chat with agents, browse and edit your project, generate complete features, and run commands with approval — an agentic workflow that builds software with you, all on your machine.

Linux (.deb) Windows (.exe) macOS (.zip) Source (pip)

Self-contained desktop builds that bundle Python + Qt. Windows: run the installer. macOS: unzip, then right-click → Open (unsigned). Or run from source: pip install -r requirements.txt & python main.py.

Why Animica

Core Capabilities

Post-Quantum Security

ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204, the successor of Dilithium3) signatures protect every account and transaction against both classical and future quantum attackers.

Useful-Work Consensus

Blocks are accepted when hash work clears the threshold Θ; the protocol defines how verified useful-work evidence (AI inference, attested quantum randomness) can count toward the same threshold.

Deterministic Python VM

Write contracts in Python with deterministic execution and auditable state transitions, then deploy them with the animica CLI.

Live Infrastructure

Mainnet runs today with a public explorer, web and desktop wallets, JSON-RPC at rpc.animica.org, and a working mining pool.

Get Started

Choose Your Path

Mine ANM

Point a CPU or GPU miner at the pool (PPS) or mine solo, and earn ANM per block — see the mining guide for expected returns.

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Build on Animica

Write deterministic Python contracts, deploy with the animica CLI, and read chain state over the public JSON-RPC endpoint.

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Hold & Use ANM

Create an anim1… address with the web or desktop wallet, send and receive ANM, and verify everything in the explorer.

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Ecosystem

Products on Animica

Every product below runs against the live chain — same coin, same anim1… addresses, same explorer-verifiable state.

Mining Pool

Stratum pool at pool.animica.org:3333 (PPS) and :3334 (solo), with a public dashboard and stats API.

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Wallet

Browser extension, desktop and mobile wallets for key management, transfers, and day-to-day ANM operations.

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Explorer

Track blocks, transactions, addresses, contracts, and chain activity in real time.

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Studio

Serverless compute — write a Python function, decorate it, and run it on the fleet for ANM. Modal-style DX at studio.animica.org.

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EVM Bridge

Connect MetaMask to Animica (chain 149) and move ANM between an EVM wallet and native accounts — deposit, send, withdraw at evm.animica.org.

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Academy

academy.animica.org — the official learning hub for getting started with Animica, from wallets to contracts.

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AICF Compute

Animica's AI-compute lane for decentralized AI workloads and provider markets, with a dashboard at aicf.animica.org.

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Open Source

gitlab.com/Animica — the node, wallets, pool, and tooling are public and open to contributions.

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AI API · Console

For businesses & AI agents: an OpenAI-compatible API — point the OpenAI SDK at api.animica.org/v1 and your code just works. Free monthly tokens, real streaming, spend caps, usage analytics, and HMAC webhooks. Sign up at console.animica.org.

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Free AI · animica.dev

Free, keyless AI for developers and their agents — an OpenAI-compatible /v1 you can call with no signup and no API key, plus a GitHub coding agent that turns a prompt into a pull request. Served on-chain by the miner network at animica.dev.

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Latest writing

Engineering notes and release notes

Build and Operate

Everything here is live and open source

Run a node, deploy a Python contract, or point a miner at the pool — the chain, the tools, and the source are public today.

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