Krypton One minute per block
Ten times faster than Bitcoin. A payment confirms while you are still looking at the screen, not while you wait for the next coffee.
Mainnet live since 24 July 2025
A blockchain that
keeps its promises.
Krypton is an open-source Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency. One block every 60 seconds, mined by anyone with a computer. No premine, no venture capital, no reserved allocation — every coin in existence was earned.
Scrypt
Algorithm
Proof of Work
60s
Block time
Fast confirmations
15M
Max supply
~31 years of emission
0%
Premine
Fair launch
Market data from CoinPaprika
What it is
Built on proven ground
Krypton derives from Litecoin, itself derived from Bitcoin, so it inherits more than a decade of hardening. What it adds is a chain tuned for speed and a protocol that protects confirmed history.
Deep-reorg protection
Nodes refuse any competing chain that would rewrite more than 200 blocks of confirmed history — a hard ceiling on what a 51% attack could undo.
Responsive difficulty
A weighted moving average retargets at every block, so the chain recovers in about an hour when a large miner leaves, not in days.
Your keys, your coins
The wallet runs on your machine and holds your keys locally. No account, no custodian, nothing to sign up for.
Open source, MIT
Every line is public. Read it, audit it, fork it, build on it — the protocol belongs to whoever runs it.
No one in charge
No foundation, no company, no board. Changes are proposed in the open and adopted only by the nodes that choose to run them.
Download
Get the wallet
The wallet and the node are the same program: running it means holding your own coins and helping secure the network at the same time. Builds are published automatically from source on GitHub.
Downloads
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Back up your wallet. Your coins live behind a key file on your computer. Use
File → Backup Wallet and keep the copy somewhere safe and offline. Lose it with no
backup and the coins are gone — no one can restore them for you.
On Linux, the graphical wallet needs the Qt 5 runtime:
sudo apt install libqt5widgets5 libqt5network5 libqt5dbus5Where this goes
Roadmap
Ordered by dependency, not by date. Each stage unlocks the next: mobile wallets, hardware wallets and exchange integrations all need the same lightweight-client infrastructure, and all of them need a healthy network underneath. Things ship when they are ready and tested.
Delivered
The chain runs, the tooling exists, and the protocol has had its first real upgrade.
Fair launch
Block explorer
Windows, macOS & Linux wallets
Protocol v1.6
First exchange listings
Network foundations
Nothing else can be built on a fragile base. Make the chain robust, and make it easy to join.
Difficulty fork rollout
Documentation
Network dashboard
Redundant seed nodes
Mining pool support
Lightweight client infrastructure
A phone cannot download the whole chain. An indexing server lets a light client fetch only the transactions that concern it — the one piece that unlocks everything below.
Electrum-compatible server
Public API for third parties
Mobile wallets
Android first, since publishing is faster and less constrained. iOS follows, subject to App Store review for cryptocurrency apps.
Android wallet
iOS wallet
Hardware wallets
Krypton shares Litecoin's cryptographic foundations, so an existing app can serve as the base. Publication depends on the vendor's own review, so this is stated as a submission rather than a guarantee.
Ledger app submission
Further hardware wallets
Exchange availability
Pursued step by step, from smaller and decentralised platforms upward. Major exchanges apply strict liquidity and compliance requirements — they are an ambition, and no listing is announced before it is confirmed.
More decentralised venues
Mid-size exchanges
Major exchanges
Post-quantum research
A powerful enough quantum computer would threaten the signatures used by Krypton and every comparable chain. The exposure is uneven: an address whose public key was never revealed sits behind a hash and is far more resistant, so the risk concentrates on reused addresses. That gives one free mitigation today — never reuse an address, which the wallet already does by default — while post-quantum signatures remain research.
Address-reuse guidance
Standards monitoring
Post-quantum output research
Take part
Everything here is open
Run a node, mine a block, read the code, or just ask questions. There is no gatekeeper and nothing to apply for.