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Midstate is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system engineered from the ground up for constrained edge environments (specifically Cortex-A53/A72/A76 architectures). It entirely abandons elliptic curve mathematics in favor of post-quantum hash functions. By enforcing sequential CPU mining, forcing all UTXOs into uniform power-of-2 denominations, it creates a robust, relatively private financial network that cannot be dominated by parallel ASICs or dismantled by blockchain surveillance firms. In traditional blockchains, blocks are distinct data structures linked by their header hashes. Midstate elevates this by maintaining a continuous, mathematically chained BLAKE3 Midstate for transactions, while binding it to the chain using sequential header hashing. The midstate tracks the continuous mathematical state of the UTXO set. When a miner processes a block, they construct a Block Header (containing the new midstate, the state root, and the previous header hash), and subject it to exactly 1,0

System Overview Midstate is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system engineered from the ground up for constrained edge environments (specifically Cortex-A53/A72/A76 architectures). It entirely abandons elliptic curve mathematics in favor of post-quantum hash functions. By enforcing sequential CPU mining, forcing all UTXOs into uniform power-of-2 denominations, it creates a robust, relatively private financial network that cannot be dominated by parallel ASICs or dismantled by blockchain surveillance firms. Why the name "Midstate"? In traditional blockchains, blocks are distinct data…

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