Silvermint

Silvermint is a Layer 1 designed by Pyrofex to raise throughput without trading away decentralisation. Its consensus protocol, Casanova, orders blocks as a directed acyclic graph and drops the leader: every node produces blocks on a fixed schedule instead of competing or taking turns, so throughput scales linearly with node count and bandwidth, and confirmation and finality are measured in seconds.

Validators stake equal amounts rather than stake-weighted amounts, which rewards running additional nodes instead of piling stake onto one, and each node is expected to sustain about 1 GB/s. The network supports heterogeneous sharding and shard management so applications with different loads scale separately. Its contract language, Symmetry, follows Go syntax and uses the F-omega-with-equality type system, with theorem-proving tooling that allows formal verification at compile time. The Ember testnet, opened in March 2023, gave the protocol its first public validation environment, and the architecture keeps consensus, execution and sharding as separately adoptable components.