# Trellis (TRL) — Whitepaper

Trellis is an independent proof-of-work network built on RandomX. It is not a token and not a fork of an existing chain's history. The chain starts from its own genesis block: no inherited balances, no reserved coins, no allocations of any kind.

## 1. Design goal

A garden trellis is built before the vine is planted. It is measured, cut and braced while the ground is still empty, and afterwards it does one thing only: it stays where it was put while everything else climbs. Trellis applies that division of labor to a payment network:

- the **protocol** is the frame — fixed, public, verifiable;
- the **miners** are the vine — all the growth, block by block, within the frame.

Nothing about the frame is decided after planting.

## 2. Consensus

| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Algorithm | RandomX (CPU-oriented, memory-hard) |
| Block interval | 216 seconds |
| Blocks per day | 86,400 / 216 = 400 |
| Difficulty adjustment | every block, from real block timestamps |
| P2P / RPC ports | 18940 / 18941 |

RandomX re-aims its internal programs continuously, so purpose-built hardware gains no durable advantage over an ordinary desktop CPU. The network's security budget is spread across many small participants rather than a few warehouses.

## 3. Emission

The full supply is one line of arithmetic:

```
2 × 21 × 620,000 = 26,040,000 TRL
```

| Stage | Blocks | Reward | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 – 619,999 | 21 TRL | 8,400 |
| 2 | 620,000 – 1,239,999 | 10.5 TRL | 4,200 |
| 3 | 1,240,000 – 1,859,999 | 5.25 TRL | 2,100 |
| 4 | 1,860,000 – 2,479,999 | 2.625 TRL | 1,050 |
| 5 | 2,480,000 – 2,999,999+ | 1.3125 TRL | 525 |

The halving interval is 620,000 blocks (~4.25 years at the target rate). No stage can be extended, re-weighted or repeated — the sequence was fixed in code before launch. At the target block rate the cap is reached in roughly 13 years.

## 4. Fair start

- **Coins created at launch: 0.** The genesis block carries no pre-allocation.
- **Dev fee: 0.** The block reward goes to the block's miner in full.
- **Treasury: none.** No address exists to collect one.
- **Unlock calendar: none.** Nothing was ever locked, so nothing unlocks.

The first coin belongs to the first miner who fits a valid block. Every coin after that is earned the same way.

## 5. Governance by arithmetic

There is no vote, foundation or roadmap behind emission. The cap, the halving rhythm and the difficulty rule are constants in the source code that was public before block zero. The chain itself is the only authority on what is true: if any document — including this one — disagrees with what the chain does, keep the chain and discard the document.

## 6. Conclusion

Trellis does not promise growth; it promises a frame that does not move. The vine does the climbing, the frame does the holding, and anyone can walk up to both and check the joints.