Pirate Chain ARRR
The maximal shielding corner: zk-SNARKs privacy with 100% mandatory shielded addresses — no transparent pool exists, so the anonymity set is the entire chain, notarized to Bitcoin through Komodo's dPoW.
About Pirate Chain
sources: official materials · verified 2026-10-13Pirate Chain takes privacy-by-default to its structural limit: every address is shielded (Sapling zk-SNARKs), transparent sends do not exist, and therefore every transaction joins the largest anonymity set a chain can have — the whole network. For 51%-attack resistance on a small hashrate, it notarizes blocks through Komodo's delayed Proof of Work up to Bitcoin, meaning an attacker must overpower three chains at once rather than one. The project's culture is unusual and deliberate: pirate-rank hierarchy (Captain/First Mate/Deckhand), no ICO, no premine, no dev tax — funding comes from donations and revenue products. Its Equihash stance is a stated philosophy: ASIC-resistance is 'a battle you keep losing' (citing Monero's algorithm churn), so ASICs are accepted. This entry is research-seeded from a 2020-era interview with an editorial staleness warning — design rationale is durable, current-state numbers need fresh capture.
How it works
- Network
- Komodo-derived chain, dPoW notarized to Komodo and Bitcoin
- Consensus
- dPoW (delayed Proof of Work) notarization backstop over Equihash PoW
- Mining algorithm
- Equihash (ASICs accepted by design)
- Launched
- 2018 (Komodo lineage)
- Hardware
- GPU
Tokenomics — token & supply
- Ticker
- ARRR
- Emission
- No ICO, no premine, no dev tax (stated at interview) — verify current schedule on-chain.
Reference material
cited on this page · links verified 2026-10-13Who to watch
sensors, not shills — verify before actingRisks
Security model is inherited: dPoW leans on Komodo and Bitcoin notarization infrastructure — a dependency outside the chain's own economics.
2020-era sourcing with an explicit staleness warning from the original publisher — current numbers (supply, pools, notarization) need fresh capture before relying on them.
Design corner is the point: mandatory shielding maximizes the anonymity set; optional-privacy chains cannot retrofit this property.
tokenomics
- emission
- No ICO, no premine, no dev tax (stated at interview) — verify current schedule on-chain.
Don't confuse with
ARRR — ticker collisions: verify chain before trusting any figure
catalysts
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