PROTOCOL / About QNV
What does QNV share with Bitcoin?
Key-based ownership, proof of work and node validation.
Shared foundations
In Bitcoin and the QNV design, the owner’s signature authorizes a transfer. Miners perform computational work and nodes verify blocks. Both models track unspent transaction outputs, or UTXOs.
How coins are issued
Bitcoin halves its subsidy over time and caps supply at roughly 21 million BTC. QNV has an initial period followed by H1–H18. H18 keeps a permanent subsidy of 0.4260912442 QNV per block, so there is no fixed final supply cap.
QNV mining and signatures
QNV uses RandomX, SHA3x and Cuckaroo29. A standard QNV spend requires both Schnorr BIP340 and ML-DSA-44. A technical difference alone does not establish superiority: Bitcoin operates publicly, while the QNV results presented here cover a private laboratory.