3. Core Principles

  • Ephemeral Existence Principle Nothing is ever written to any non-volatile medium except the original 180 MB image, which is deliberately zeroed on exit. Even kernel page cache is poisoned with madv_dontneed after every operation.

  • Fragmented Secret Principle At no point—not even for a single CPU cycle—does the complete private key exist in contiguous memory. Reconstruction happens inside the ALU of the threshold engine only at the exact moment of signing, then immediately discarded.

  • Network Amnesia Principle Every outbound packet is guaranteed to come from a different IPv4/IPv6 address, TLS fingerprint, HTTP/2 settings vector, and WebSocket subprotocol than the packet sent 90 seconds earlier.

  • Destructive Termination Principle Shutdown is not graceful. It is an interrupt-driven, high-priority kernel thread that races the hardware power-off sequence and always wins.

  • Economic Honesty Principle The only way to pay for the system is with $SERRA that you must move out before nulling. Anything left inside when TraceKill™ fires is burned forever. This aligns incentives perfectly: if we rug, we lose our own treasury.

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