NØNOS NOX

NØNOS is rare in kind, not just degree: a Layer-0 privacy operating system — a Rust microkernel, not a Linux distro — written almost entirely by one developer (eKisNonos, Erik, Italy; 10,391 solo commits), funded by 374 NFT sales rather than VC, AGPL-3.0. Its ZeroState concept enforces amnesia at kernel level: RAM-first operation with zero persistent state by default, against which Tails looks like userspace politeness on an OS 'with no interest in forgetting.' Every component is a signed, capability-bounded capsule — a compromised browser loses only its own tokens, a driver crash is a recovery event. The post-quantum trust chain is concrete and verifiable: dual Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 signatures mandatory on every component, ML-KEM-768 for key encapsulation, TPM 2.0 measured boot with monotonic anti-rollback. After review, the ZK attestation layer dropped its trusted setup (Pedersen commitments, Chaum-Pedersen, BLAKE3 Merkle) and now runs live on the spawn path. The team is blunt about limits: not yet for high-risk users until the persistence gate closes; in-session surveillance, cold-boot RAM extraction, and user-granted capsules remain out of scope. The token is explicitly NOT a security layer: near-fully circulated (~796M of 800M), it exists as the economic layer — with structural illiquidity (~920 holders, $200-20K daily volume) as the standing risk.

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