Money for the internet that a shop can check for itself.

Block time

5seconds

Consensus

GHOSTDAGk = 8

Launch reward

5IMN / block

Halving

4years

Reward floor

0.3125IMN / block

Smallest unit

10⁻⁸IMN (1 atom)

Three decisions, each made for the person taking the payment.

1. A node small enough to run yourself

   Fast chains produce so much data that shops end up trusting someone else's API. At one block every five seconds the chain grows slowly, so a merchant can keep a verifying node on an inexpensive server and ask it directly whether they were paid.

2. Parallel blocks are merged, not thrown away

   When two miners find a block at the same moment, a plain chain discards one. The GHOSTDAG protocol keeps both and puts them in a single agreed order, which is what lets the block time be short without wasting honest work.

3. Mining bound by memory, not by custom chips

   The proof of work is called Hallmark. It is FishHash, the memory-hard algorithm built for Iron Fish, with a seed of our own. Every hash makes random reads across gigabytes of memory, the thing consumer graphics cards already do well. That limits what custom chips can gain; it does not rule them out.

Take a payment with a few lines of code.

// Talk to a node you run
const client = new IMoneyClient({
  nodeUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:18556'
});

client.openCheckoutModal({
  merchantAddress: 'imntest:q...',
  amountImn: '12.5',
  invoiceId: 'INV-1042',
  level: 'included',
  onSuccess: (payment) => {
    markOrderPaid(payment.invoiceId);
  }
});

Money with rules built in, and no contract code to trust.

Each of these is a small, fixed rule that every node checks, not a program anyone can deploy. That keeps them reviewable and keeps the worst kinds of contract bugs off the chain.

1. Tokens anyone can issue

   Loyalty points, a game currency, a community coin: one transaction creates a token with a name, a ticker and a supply. Fees are paid in IMN. Every node checks that no token is created or lost in a transfer, and a token's ID, and the icon drawn from it, cannot be copied by an imitation.

2. Escrow with an arbiter who cannot take the money

   A buyer pays into an escrow. The buyer can release it to the seller, the seller can refund the buyer, and an arbiter can settle a dispute by paying either or both, never themselves. After a deadline one side collects alone. The arbiter can be a person, a company or a program, including an AI agent, and even a compromised one can only pay the buyer or the seller.

3. Trading with no exchange in between

   The trading layer is part of the protocol. A seller places an offer that the chain holds under public terms; anyone can take all or part of it in one transaction that pays the seller, or nothing happens. Every node lists the open offers, so the order book, and the price of each token in IMN, can be read from the chain itself without any outside price feed.

   For other chains' coins, hash locks let two people swap directly. They use SHA-256, which Ethereum-style chains can check too, and a swap of IMN for ether has run end to end on test networks.

4. Refunds linked to the order

   Nothing can reverse a payment, so there are no chargebacks. When a shop chooses to give money back, the node knows who paid, the refund carries the order's number, and the shop sends it from its own wallet. The WooCommerce plugin supports the ordinary Refund button.

Refunds work on the test network today. Tokens, escrow, the trading layer and swaps are finished in the code and arrive with the next test network, which starts from a fresh chain. The Ethereum swap contract has not been audited or deployed.

Every coin is mined. The schedule is fixed in the code.

The reward halves every four years, four times, and then stays at 0.3125 IMN per block for good, so miners are always paid to secure the network. There is no premine and no share for the developers.

A test network is running. Here is exactly how far along it is.

The coins on the test network have no value and the chain can be restarted. There is no main network and no coin to buy. Anyone offering IMN for sale today is not us.