Everything you need to understand Valdium.
Technical specs, quickstart guides, the SDK reference, and the operator handbook — all derived from the canonical Valdium spec. Built for developers shipping today and operators planning for the next decade.
Start here
Four pages that frame everything else.
Start here
The Thesis
Why a post-quantum JavaScript chain — and why we built it ourselves rather than wait for Ethereum to retrofit. A ten-minute read that frames the rest of the docs.
Read →Quickstart
Zero to first transaction
Install the CLI, generate a wallet, claim testnet VLD from the faucet, and ship your first quantum-safe signed transaction. Under ten minutes, no prior chain experience required.
Read →Cryptography
Post-quantum from genesis
NIST FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 (Dilithium3). Why we chose it, how it benchmarks against ECDSA, what the signature-size trade-off costs us at the block-propagation layer.
Read →Smart Contracts
JavaScript on-chain
Async message-passing. Immutable by default. Reentrancy structurally removed. Plain JS source deployed on-chain — readable, verifiable, no compiler to trust.
Read →Consensus
Tendermint-style BFT
A rotating ~100-validator committee per epoch, stake-weighted and permissionless. Two-second finality on consumer hardware, no validator-as-a-service required.
Read →Run a Node
Become a validator
Run Valdium on the laptop already on your desk. Bond VLD, rotate into the committee, earn block rewards. The hardware floor is a Raspberry Pi 4 with a decent SSD.
Coming soonA note on where we are
Valdium is testnet-live. These docs describe the chain as it runs today — Dilithium3 signatures, two-second blocks, JavaScript contracts — and the roadmap toward mainnet. For the latest status, see the roadmap. To be told first when the next phase opens, join the launch list.
This is a living document. The protocol spec evolves with the testnet. Major changes ship to the devlog before they ship to these pages, so if something here looks contradicted by recent posts, the devlog is the canonical source until docs catch up.