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Parallax v1.0.5

03 Nov 08:06
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Changelog v1.0.5

  • Fix an issue where miners could continue hashing on outdated block templates for extended periods, resulting in blocks being found with stale timestamps.
  • The miner now always refreshes the block header timestamp and rebuilds the sealing template on a regular timer.
  • The default recommit interval is now 20 seconds, with bounds set to a minimum of 5 seconds and a maximum of 2 minutes.
  • These changes prevent difficulty overshooting and timestamp drift observed in previous builds.

Pools and node operators are strongly advised to update as soon as possible to help restore proper block cadence and difficulty stability across the network in the next DAA window.


Full Changelog: v1.0.4...v1.0.5

Parallax v1.0.4 - Mainnet Launch

30 Oct 00:09
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Changelog v1.0.4

  • Fix node synchronization in snap mode.
  • Change default sync mode back to parallax-snap to speed up sync.

Changelog v1.0.3

  • Change default sync mode from parallax-snap to full.

Changelog v1.0.2

  • Rename the snap sync protocol to parallax-snap. This make sure other non-Parallax compliant nodes stop finding Parallax nodes via the discovery protocol.

Changelog v1.0.1

  • Fix warning messages about dropping peers in main chain.

🌌 Overview

After months of development, testing, and refinement, Parallax Mainnet is now live.
This marks the beginning of a new decentralized era — a Bitcoin-inspired, EVM-compatible blockchain that fuses deterministic monetary policy with full smart-contract capabilities.

Parallax is a clean-room fork of go-ethereum, meticulously re-engineered to follow Bitcoin’s ossified economic model while introducing an entirely new Proof-of-Work algorithm, XHash, purpose-built for fairness, verifiability, and long-term sustainability.


⚙️ Core Highlights

🔐 Immutable Monetary Policy

  • Hard-capped at 21 million coins
  • Block reward of 50 coins, halving every 210 000 blocks
  • No premine, no dev-fund, no pre-allocation — 100% fair launch
  • Follows a deterministic emission curve identical to Bitcoin’s

⚡ Consensus Algorithm: XHash

  • Custom GPU/CPU PoW algorithm derived from Ethash
  • Epoch length: 720 blocks
  • Modified FNV-1 round function with Parallax-specific constants
  • Optimized for verifiability and ASIC resistance
  • Fully open-source miner: Hashwarp

🧠 Full EVM Compatibility

  • Complete support for Ethereum smart contracts, tooling, and RPCs
  • Metamask / Chainlist-ready endpoints
  • Compatible with major development frameworks (Hardhat, Foundry, Thirdweb, etc.)

🕸️ Network Rules & Timings

  • 10-minute target block time
  • Difficulty retargeting via Nakamoto-style median-time-past adjustment
  • Genesis timestamp: 2025-10-28 19:00 GMT
  • Chain ID: 2110

🧩 Mining Tools

Hashwarp Miner

Minimal GPU/CPU miner for XHash.

  • OpenCL 1.2 + compatible
  • CUDA 12.x compatible
  • Easy CLI interface:
    hashwarp -P http://127.0.0.1:8545

Latest release: v1.2.0


🔭 Developer Ecosystem


🪙 Fair Launch Policy

Parallax launched with zero premine and open GPU mining from block 0.
All coins in circulation are verifiably mined on-chain.
The Genesis block contains no privileged allocations — only the protocol definition and a genesis message:

The Times 28/Oct/2025 Trump tells Japan: Any favours you need, we’ll be there


🧩 Repository Summary

Component Description
parallax Core node client (Go)
xhash C++ PoW library
hashwarp XHash GPU miner with OpenCL and CUDA support
parallax-website Next.js parallaxchain.org website
parallax-docs Developer documentation

🤝 Join the Community


🌠 "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Parallax v1.0.3 - Mainnet Launch

29 Oct 01:24
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Changelog v1.0.3

  • Change default sync mode from parallax-snap to full.

Changelog v1.0.2

  • Rename the snap sync protocol to parallax-snap. This make sure other non-Parallax compliant nodes stop finding Parallax nodes via the discovery protocol.

Changelog v1.0.1

  • Fix warning messages about dropping peers in main chain.

🌌 Overview

After months of development, testing, and refinement, Parallax Mainnet is now live.
This marks the beginning of a new decentralized era — a Bitcoin-inspired, EVM-compatible blockchain that fuses deterministic monetary policy with full smart-contract capabilities.

Parallax is a clean-room fork of go-ethereum, meticulously re-engineered to follow Bitcoin’s ossified economic model while introducing an entirely new Proof-of-Work algorithm, XHash, purpose-built for fairness, verifiability, and long-term sustainability.


⚙️ Core Highlights

🔐 Immutable Monetary Policy

  • Hard-capped at 21 million coins
  • Block reward of 50 coins, halving every 210 000 blocks
  • No premine, no dev-fund, no pre-allocation — 100% fair launch
  • Follows a deterministic emission curve identical to Bitcoin’s

⚡ Consensus Algorithm: XHash

  • Custom GPU/CPU PoW algorithm derived from Ethash
  • Epoch length: 720 blocks
  • Modified FNV-1 round function with Parallax-specific constants
  • Optimized for verifiability and ASIC resistance
  • Fully open-source miner: Hashwarp

🧠 Full EVM Compatibility

  • Complete support for Ethereum smart contracts, tooling, and RPCs
  • Metamask / Chainlist-ready endpoints
  • Compatible with major development frameworks (Hardhat, Foundry, Thirdweb, etc.)

🕸️ Network Rules & Timings

  • 10-minute target block time
  • Difficulty retargeting via Nakamoto-style median-time-past adjustment
  • Genesis timestamp: 2025-10-28 19:00 GMT
  • Chain ID: 2110

🧩 Mining Tools

Hashwarp Miner

Minimal GPU/CPU miner for XHash.

  • OpenCL 1.2 + compatible
  • CUDA 12.x compatible
  • Easy CLI interface:
    hashwarp -P http://127.0.0.1:8545

Latest release: v1.2.0


🔭 Developer Ecosystem


🪙 Fair Launch Policy

Parallax launched with zero premine and open GPU mining from block 0.
All coins in circulation are verifiably mined on-chain.
The Genesis block contains no privileged allocations — only the protocol definition and a genesis message:

The Times 28/Oct/2025 Trump tells Japan: Any favours you need, we’ll be there


🧩 Repository Summary

Component Description
parallax Core node client (Go)
xhash C++ PoW library
hashwarp XHash GPU miner with OpenCL and CUDA support
parallax-website Next.js parallaxchain.org website
parallax-docs Developer documentation

🤝 Join the Community


🌠 "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Parallax v1.0.2 - Mainnet Launch

29 Oct 00:19
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Changelog v1.0.2

  • Rename the snap sync protocol to parallax-snap. This make sure other non-Parallax compliant nodes stop finding Parallax nodes via the discovery protocol.

Changelog v1.0.1

  • Fix warning messages about dropping peers in main chain.

🌌 Overview

After months of development, testing, and refinement, Parallax Mainnet is now live.
This marks the beginning of a new decentralized era — a Bitcoin-inspired, EVM-compatible blockchain that fuses deterministic monetary policy with full smart-contract capabilities.

Parallax is a clean-room fork of go-ethereum, meticulously re-engineered to follow Bitcoin’s ossified economic model while introducing an entirely new Proof-of-Work algorithm, XHash, purpose-built for fairness, verifiability, and long-term sustainability.


⚙️ Core Highlights

🔐 Immutable Monetary Policy

  • Hard-capped at 21 million coins
  • Block reward of 50 coins, halving every 210 000 blocks
  • No premine, no dev-fund, no pre-allocation — 100% fair launch
  • Follows a deterministic emission curve identical to Bitcoin’s

⚡ Consensus Algorithm: XHash

  • Custom GPU/CPU PoW algorithm derived from Ethash
  • Epoch length: 720 blocks
  • Modified FNV-1 round function with Parallax-specific constants
  • Optimized for verifiability and ASIC resistance
  • Fully open-source miner: Hashwarp

🧠 Full EVM Compatibility

  • Complete support for Ethereum smart contracts, tooling, and RPCs
  • Metamask / Chainlist-ready endpoints
  • Compatible with major development frameworks (Hardhat, Foundry, Thirdweb, etc.)

🕸️ Network Rules & Timings

  • 10-minute target block time
  • Difficulty retargeting via Nakamoto-style median-time-past adjustment
  • Genesis timestamp: 2025-10-28 19:00 GMT
  • Chain ID: 2110

🧩 Mining Tools

Hashwarp Miner

Minimal GPU/CPU miner for XHash.

  • OpenCL 1.2 + compatible
  • CUDA 12.x compatible
  • Easy CLI interface:
    hashwarp -P http://127.0.0.1:8545

Latest release: v1.2.0


🔭 Developer Ecosystem


🪙 Fair Launch Policy

Parallax launched with zero premine and open GPU mining from block 0.
All coins in circulation are verifiably mined on-chain.
The Genesis block contains no privileged allocations — only the protocol definition and a genesis message:

The Times 28/Oct/2025 Trump tells Japan: Any favours you need, we’ll be there


🧩 Repository Summary

Component Description
parallax Core node client (Go)
xhash C++ PoW library
hashwarp XHash GPU miner with OpenCL and CUDA support
parallax-website Next.js parallaxchain.org website
parallax-docs Developer documentation

🤝 Join the Community


🌠 "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Parallax v1.0.1 - Mainnet Launch

28 Oct 19:27
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Changelog

  • Fix warning messages about dropping peers in main chain.

🌌 Overview

After months of development, testing, and refinement, Parallax Mainnet is now live.
This marks the beginning of a new decentralized era — a Bitcoin-inspired, EVM-compatible blockchain that fuses deterministic monetary policy with full smart-contract capabilities.

Parallax is a clean-room fork of go-ethereum, meticulously re-engineered to follow Bitcoin’s ossified economic model while introducing an entirely new Proof-of-Work algorithm, XHash, purpose-built for fairness, verifiability, and long-term sustainability.


⚙️ Core Highlights

🔐 Immutable Monetary Policy

  • Hard-capped at 21 million coins
  • Block reward of 50 coins, halving every 210 000 blocks
  • No premine, no dev-fund, no pre-allocation — 100% fair launch
  • Follows a deterministic emission curve identical to Bitcoin’s

⚡ Consensus Algorithm: XHash

  • Custom GPU/CPU PoW algorithm derived from Ethash
  • Epoch length: 720 blocks
  • Modified FNV-1 round function with Parallax-specific constants
  • Optimized for verifiability and ASIC resistance
  • Fully open-source miner: Hashwarp

🧠 Full EVM Compatibility

  • Complete support for Ethereum smart contracts, tooling, and RPCs
  • Metamask / Chainlist-ready endpoints
  • Compatible with major development frameworks (Hardhat, Foundry, Thirdweb, etc.)

🕸️ Network Rules & Timings

  • 10-minute target block time
  • Difficulty retargeting via Nakamoto-style median-time-past adjustment
  • Genesis timestamp: 2025-10-28 19:00 GMT
  • Chain ID: 2110

🧩 Mining Tools

Hashwarp Miner

Minimal GPU/CPU miner for XHash.

  • OpenCL 1.2 + compatible
  • CUDA 12.x compatible
  • Easy CLI interface:
    hashwarp -P http://127.0.0.1:8545

Latest release: v1.2.0


🔭 Developer Ecosystem


🪙 Fair Launch Policy

Parallax launched with zero premine and open GPU mining from block 0.
All coins in circulation are verifiably mined on-chain.
The Genesis block contains no privileged allocations — only the protocol definition and a genesis message:

The Times 28/Oct/2025 Trump tells Japan: Any favours you need, we’ll be there


🧩 Repository Summary

Component Description
parallax Core node client (Go)
xhash C++ PoW library
hashwarp XHash GPU miner with OpenCL and CUDA support
parallax-website Next.js parallaxchain.org website
parallax-docs Developer documentation

🤝 Join the Community


🌠 "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Parallax v1.0.0 - Mainnet Launch

28 Oct 19:00
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🌌 Overview

After months of development, testing, and refinement, Parallax Mainnet is now live.
This marks the beginning of a new decentralized era — a Bitcoin-inspired, EVM-compatible blockchain that fuses deterministic monetary policy with full smart-contract capabilities.

Parallax is a clean-room fork of go-ethereum, meticulously re-engineered to follow Bitcoin’s ossified economic model while introducing an entirely new Proof-of-Work algorithm, XHash, purpose-built for fairness, verifiability, and long-term sustainability.


⚙️ Core Highlights

🔐 Immutable Monetary Policy

  • Hard-capped at 21 million coins
  • Block reward of 50 coins, halving every 210 000 blocks
  • No premine, no dev-fund, no pre-allocation — 100% fair launch
  • Follows a deterministic emission curve identical to Bitcoin’s

⚡ Consensus Algorithm: XHash

  • Custom GPU/CPU PoW algorithm derived from Ethash
  • Epoch length: 720 blocks
  • Modified FNV-1 round function with Parallax-specific constants
  • Optimized for verifiability and ASIC resistance
  • Fully open-source miner: Hashwarp

🧠 Full EVM Compatibility

  • Complete support for Ethereum smart contracts, tooling, and RPCs
  • Metamask / Chainlist-ready endpoints
  • Compatible with major development frameworks (Hardhat, Foundry, Thirdweb, etc.)

🕸️ Network Rules & Timings

  • 10-minute target block time
  • Difficulty retargeting via Nakamoto-style median-time-past adjustment
  • Genesis timestamp: 2025-10-28 19:00 GMT
  • Chain ID: 2110

🧩 Mining Tools

Hashwarp Miner

Minimal GPU/CPU miner for XHash.

  • OpenCL 1.2 + compatible
  • CUDA 12.x compatible
  • Easy CLI interface:
    hashwarp -P http://127.0.0.1:8545

Latest release: v1.2.0


🔭 Developer Ecosystem


🪙 Fair Launch Policy

Parallax launched with zero premine and open GPU mining from block 0.
All coins in circulation are verifiably mined on-chain.
The Genesis block contains no privileged allocations — only the protocol definition and a genesis message:

The Times 28/Oct/2025 Trump tells Japan: Any favours you need, we’ll be there


🧩 Repository Summary

Component Description
parallax Core node client (Go)
xhash C++ PoW library
hashwarp XHash GPU miner with OpenCL and CUDA support
parallax-website Next.js parallaxchain.org website
parallax-docs Developer documentation

🤝 Join the Community


🌠 "I'm sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume." - Satoshi Nakamoto

Parallax v0.1.4 (Testnet)

09 Oct 07:40
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This release fixes two vulnerabilities originated from go-ethereum v1.10.0+ clients.

Parallax v0.1.3 (Testnet)

05 Oct 21:34
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What's Changed

This release introduces the XHash algorithm as discussed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5560698.msg65873804#msg65873804

In accordance with testnet node operators and miners, the testnet was reset from genesis block with the XHash proof-of-work algorithm. Please make sure you clean the block chain data directory before starting your node!

This release allow users, miners and node operators to test the XHash algorithm ahead of the mainnet launch.

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

Parallax v0.1.2 (Testnet)

01 Oct 21:58
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This is minor release with no additional functionalities or bug fixes and it's meant to test the stability of the Parallax client ahead of the Parallax mainnet launch on October 28th.

This release includes clean ups of code - or inactive features - inherited from Geth, such as:

  • Removal of all references to Ethereum's DAO fork
  • Removal of all references to Ethereum's Glacier (difficulty bomb) forks
  • Removal of all references to Ethereum's PoS Beacon system

In addition, we've upgraded the project linter to go-lint 2.5.0. This release also include several lint fixes throughout the entire code base.

Node operators are advised to upgrade to help test client stability in preparation for the mainnet release.

If you are running the Parallax testnet, starting with this release, you are required to pass the --testnet flag to prlx to properly sync to the testnet chain. The absence of this flag makes the Parallax client sync with mainnet chain which is not live yet.

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

Parallax v0.1.1 (Testnet)

18 Sep 11:59
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This release includes:

  • Fix crash when synchronizing the testnet chain from scratch
  • Additional testnet bootnode

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1