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EBLA is an EVM-compatible blockDAG Layer-1 blockchain — rebuilt and relaunched by the community after the original Taraxa project was abandoned by its team. Every letter in the name was deliberate: EVM · BlockDAG · Ledger · Architecture.

Unlike most blockchain projects, EBLA has no foundation, no venture capital backing, and no insider pre-mine. It is owned, governed, and operated entirely by its community.

Taraxa was a pioneering blockDAG Layer-1 blockchain with proven technology and a working mainnet. When the original team stepped away and development stopped, the community - validators, developers, and long-term believers - refused to let years of innovation die.

Because the code was open-source, the community was able to fork it, fix what was needed, and relaunch as EBLA. This is exactly what decentralization means: a network belongs to no single team and cannot be killed by one team's departure.

No. There is no foundation, no legal entity, no centralized team, and no VC investors behind EBLA. The network is built by volunteers and community contributors who believe in the project.

There is no insider token allocation and no foundation wallet. If you contribute to EBLA, you are the team.

Several things set EBLA apart:

BlockDAG instead of a single chain - parallel block processing means no bottleneck, enabling over 5,000 TPS with true finality in under 3.7 seconds.

Custom 15-of-24 quorum - 15 of 24 committee members must agree (62.5%) to finalize a block. This is a deliberately tuned threshold for fast finality on a BlockDAG, custom-coded and enforced on-chain from block zero.

Inactivity penalties - validators who go offline automatically lose 5% of their voting power every ~10 hours. Dead nodes can't stall the network.

Yes - fully. EBLA is 100% EVM compatible. This means:

✅ MetaMask connects with no changes
✅ All Solidity smart contracts deploy without modification
✅ ethers.js, web3.js, Hardhat, Foundry - all work natively
✅ Ledger and Trezor hardware wallets are supported

You only need to add the EBLA network to your wallet (chain ID, RPC URL) - everything else is identical to Ethereum development.

The hard cap is 12,000,000,000 EBLA - 12 billion tokens. This number is written into the network's code at genesis and can never be increased. No exceptions, no governance votes can override it.

The initial staking yield is 7% annually, distributed every block from genesis.

The yield decays by 5% of the current rate every ~14 months (10,000,000 blocks at ~3.7 s per block — one "epoch"). It will never drop below 1% — this floor is permanent and enforced in code.

Approximate Year	Epoch	Staking Yield
Year 0–1.2	1	7.00%
Year 1.2–2.3	2	6.65%
Year ~3.5	4	5.99%
Year ~7	7	4.88%
Year ~14	13	3.59%
Year ~24	21	2.39%
Year ~44	38+	1.00% (permanent floor)

A simple native EBLA transfer costs approximately 0.000021 EBLA at the minimum gas price of 1 Gwei (21,000 gas × 1 Gwei). ERC-20 token transfers cost more — typically 50,000–65,000 gas, or ~0.000050–0.000065 EBLA. At almost any realistic EBLA price, both are a fraction of a cent.

You have two options:

1. Delegate to an existing validator - the simplest option. Go to the staking dashboard at stake.EBLAnetwork.com, choose a validator, and delegate any amount of EBLA. You earn a share of the validator's staking rewards minus their commission (minimum 10%).

2. Run your own validator node - requires a minimum of 5,000 EBLA total stake (self-delegation + delegations from others) to become active. See the Validators section below.

The on-chain minimum delegation is 5,000 EBLA to stake directly with a validator node. However, you can stake any amount through the staking dashboard - the interface handles the technical requirements for you.

When you undelegate, your tokens enter a locking period of approximately 8.56 days (200,000 blocks at ~3.7 seconds per block). During this period your tokens are not accessible and do not earn rewards. After the locking period ends, they return to your wallet automatically.

Staking rewards are distributed every single block from genesis - approximately every 4.7 seconds. You do not need to claim manually; rewards accumulate in your account continuously. You can claim them at any time through the staking dashboard.

Yes. EBLA supports redelegation - moving your stake from one validator to another - without going through the full unlocking period. This is available through the staking dashboard and is enforced at the protocol level.

To register as a validator you need a minimum self-delegation of 100 EBLA. However, your node only becomes active (participates in consensus and earns rewards) once your total stake - your own delegation plus delegations from others - reaches 5,000 EBLA.

A quickstart Docker package will be available at EBLAnetwork.com/validators once mainnet launches. No prior blockchain experience is required to follow the setup guide.

There is a minimum commission of 10% enforced at the protocol level. Validators cannot lower their commission below 10% - this rule is hardcoded and cannot be overridden by any individual node. This protects the network from a race-to-zero commission dynamic that could push out smaller validators.

EBLA has an automatic inactivity penalty. If a validator does not produce any block within a window of 10,000 blocks (~10 hours), they automatically lose 5% of their current voting power.

This penalty compounds - 5% of the remaining power is lost each period, not 5% of the original. If the stake drops below the minimum threshold, the validator is forcibly evicted from the committee and all delegators are automatically undelegated.

There are no manual interventions required - this is enforced automatically by the smart contract every time a new block is finalized.

Yes. The maximum total stake per validator is 1,000,000 EBLA. Any delegation that would push a validator's total above this cap is rejected by the network.

This cap prevents any single validator from accumulating disproportionate voting power - a deliberate design choice to protect decentralization.

Double-voting (submitting conflicting votes for the same block) triggers the jailing mechanism. A jailed validator is removed from the committee for 1,000 blocks (~78 minutes). During this time they cannot participate in consensus or earn rewards. This is automatic and enforced on-chain with no manual governance vote required.

A snapshot of all TARA token holders was taken at a specific block on the Taraxa mainnet. Every wallet that held 100 TARA or more at that block receives EBLA at the ratio of 100 TARA = 1 EBLA.

The airdrop tokens are included directly in the EBLA genesis block - meaning they are already in your wallet from the moment EBLA launches. No claiming is required.

A total of 80,000,000 EBLA is reserved for the TARA holder airdrop. This is part of the 5 billion genesis distribution. Any remainder from rounding (wallets with less than 100 TARA) goes to the community treasury.

No. Your EBLA airdrop is placed directly into your wallet address at the genesis block. As long as you use the same wallet address on the EBLA network, the tokens will be there from day one.

The airdrop guide at EBLAnetwork.com will explain how to add the EBLA network to MetaMask and verify your balance. No transactions, no signatures, no gas fees required to receive the airdrop.

Yes. The complete list of airdrop addresses and their allocated amounts will be published publicly before mainnet launch - and will be permanently visible on the block explorer from genesis. Anyone can verify their allocation independently before and after launch.

A traditional blockchain adds blocks one at a time in a single chain. If two blocks are created simultaneously, only one "wins" - the other is discarded. This wastes work and limits throughput.

A blockDAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) allows multiple blocks to be created and confirmed in parallel. Instead of discarding competing blocks, it includes them all and orders them through a PBFT consensus process. The result: EBLA achieves over 5,000 TPS with true finality in under 3.7 seconds, while maintaining full decentralization and security.

EBLA achieves <3.7 second true finality. This is important to understand correctly:

In Bitcoin, a transaction is considered "safe" only after 6 confirmations (~60 minutes), because the chain can theoretically be reorganized. The risk never reaches zero.

EBLA uses PBFT consensus, which provides true finality - once a block is finalized, it is permanently irreversible. There is no reorganization risk, no probabilistic safety, no waiting for extra confirmations.

The original Taraxa Ethereum bridge (Ficus Root Bridge) has been removed from EBLA due to a vulnerability on the Ethereum side. The bridge contract address is set to zero in the genesis block and the bridge hardfork is effectively disabled.

A secure cross-chain bridge is on the future roadmap, but will only launch after a full security audit. No funds will be put at risk by an unaudited bridge.

Once mainnet launches, a full block explorer will be available at explorer.EBLAnetwork.com. It will show all transactions, blocks, wallet balances, validator activity, staking positions, and governance events - all publicly readable, no account required.

There is no fixed launch date. EBLA will launch when every phase of the roadmap is complete and verified - not before. The sequence is: private testing → EBLA rules implemented → genesis assembled → extended testing → public testnet (minimum 2 weeks) → security audit → infrastructure deployed → mainnet launch.

Follow the community on Discord and Telegram for real-time progress updates on each phase.

The genesis block is the very first block of EBLA - its founding document. It permanently records every token balance, every validator, every rule, and the airdrop allocation at the moment the network starts. It can never be changed after creation.

A cryptographic hash of the genesis block is computed and shared with all validators. Any node with a different hash will be refused connection to the network - ensuring every participant starts from the same truth.

Yes - Phase 6 of the roadmap is a public testnet open to anyone. Community members can run validator nodes, deploy contracts, test the staking dashboard, and verify that every EBLA rule works as documented - all with no real value at risk.

The testnet must run for a minimum of 2 weeks with zero consensus failures before proceeding to the security audit and mainnet launch.

Yes - this is mandatory, not optional. A professional blockchain security firm will audit every line of code that differs from the original Taraxa codebase. The focus areas are the 15/24 consensus threshold implementation, inactivity slashing logic, and reward decay math.

All critical and high-severity findings must be resolved before mainnet. The complete audit report will be published publicly for anyone to read.

The best places to stay updated:

🔥 Discord - discord.gg/gCkYC9h8S6 - dev channels, governance discussions, node support
✈️ Telegram - t.me/EBLAnetwork - community announcements and discussions
🌐 EBLAnetwork.com - the main website

All phase completions, testnet launches, and mainnet dates will be announced across all channels simultaneously.