Introduction

1. Introduction

Seth aims to be a mobile-native public blockchain that can be deployed, measured, and improved over time for large-scale use by Agents. The network remains open to new participants. With iPoW, mobile and specialized devices can join the candidate set nodes with a low entry cost, which helps grow the network and raises the marginal cost of Sybil attacks. With sharding and deterministic finality inside each shard, users can reach the core value within seconds: transactions become settled with clear meaning.

With epoch reward pools, the protocol keeps rewarding uptime, participation, message propagation, and synchronization, building a long-term security budget and supporting steady operation.

Seth follows three principles:

• No split security: consensus and finality are completed within L1. • Build what can run: Phase 1 avoids relying on complex external proof systems. • Network first: propagation, state contention, and finality semantics are treated as the main limits of high throughput