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About Animica

A Post-Quantum Layer‑1, Live on Mainnet

Animica is a layer-1 blockchain built for the post-quantum era. Every transaction is signed with NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (Dilithium3, with SPHINCS+ as an alternative), smart contracts run in a deterministic Python VM, and consensus rewards useful computation — not just hashing. The native coin is ANM; addresses use bech32m encoding with the anim1… prefix.

Open the Explorer How It Works Source on GitHub

Post-Quantum by Default

Signatures use Dilithium3 (ML-DSA-65) with SPHINCS+ as a hash-based alternative — no quantum-vulnerable elliptic-curve keys anywhere in the protocol. Funds stay safe against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks.

Python Smart Contracts

Contracts are written in Python and executed in a deterministic, gas-metered VM. Every node reproduces the exact same result — no custom contract language to learn.

Useful-Work Consensus

PoIES (Proof-of-Integrated-External-Services) combines hash-based mining with verifiable proofs of useful work, steering network energy toward AI and quantum-relevant compute instead of throwing it away.

Live Today

What You Can Use Right Now

Mainnet & Explorer

The chain is producing blocks on mainnet. Browse blocks, transactions, and addresses at explorer.animica.org, or query the public RPC directly.

Mining Pool

Mine ANM with your CPU and dual-mine XMR on the same hardware via the official pool at pool.animica.org. Setup guides are on the mining page.

GPU Compute via Bittensor

Animica integrates with Bittensor for GPU compute. Track it on the Bittensor dashboard.

Marketplace

Trade ANM and ecosystem assets on the marketplace at animica.xyz.

CLI & SDK

pip install animica gives you the complete animica client — everything to mine, run a node, use the wallet, deploy Python contracts, run the unified animica up miner, and use the Studio SDK, with the native CPU miner included by default. This is what most people want. Prefer pip install "animica[all]" (quote the brackets so zsh/macOS won't glob them) for the kitchen sink: every optional extra — Qt wallet QR codes, the full distributed Studio client, and all server/operator dependencies pinned. See downloads and docs.

AICF

The AI Compute Lane

AICF is Animica's AI-compute lane: a marketplace where developers buy inference and training paid in ANM, and providers earn ANM by contributing benchmarked GPU hardware. It settles natively on the chain, so escrow, receipts, and rewards stay on-chain and auditable.

AICF Compute Dashboard Become a Provider

Open Source

The full node, wallets, SDKs, and tooling are public at github.com/animicaorg/all. Issues and contributions are welcome.