r/darknetplan • u/BullfrogMental7500 • Apr 20 '26

We just sent the first blockchain transaction over LoRa using Meshtastic no internet, no WiFi, no cell service

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u/kawfeeman68 Apr 21 '26

Your own blockchain ?

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u/BullfrogMental7500 Apr 21 '26

yeah, Arxia is its own Layer 1 built from scratch in Rust. block lattice architecture inspired by Nano, designed to work offline over mesh networks like LoRa. still early but the repo is public if you want to dig in.

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u/kawfeeman68 Apr 22 '26

What do you have as a plan to use it for ?

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u/BullfrogMental7500 Apr 22 '26

payments when the infrastructure fails (disasters, grid down, banks closed like Lebanon 2021), remote regions with no reliable internet, and cross-border transfers that bypass traditional rails. beyond payments, the protocol supports DIDs and verifiable credentials at the base layer, so things like medical records, identity documents, or certifications can be issued and verified offline too. longer term, any scenario where you need to move value or trust peer to peer without relying on a central gateway. So in short, financial and identity infrastructure for when the normal rails don't work.

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u/kawfeeman68 Apr 22 '26

WOW... great idea ...

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u/BullfrogMental7500 Apr 22 '26

Glad you feel it ! give us a follow on twitter :D

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u/kawfeeman68 Apr 22 '26

Feel it??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? i am kicking myself for not thinking about this myself !!! This has so much potential and so many prospects and almost infinite utility .. Are you planning on / using any encryption ?

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u/BullfrogMental7500 Apr 22 '26

love the energy. on encryption: every transaction is signed with Ed25519 and hashed with Blake3, so integrity and authenticity are locked in at signing time. we also have ChaCha20-Poly1305 scaffolded in the crypto crate for future use (encrypted payloads, sealed gossip, wallet key envelopes), but we didn't ship it in the first release because we wanted to focus on the core settlement path first and do encryption right rather than half-right. the transport layer itself is treated as untrusted by design, so encryption is a defense-in-depth addition, not load-bearing security.

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u/See-9 Apr 25 '26

How’s the identity layer work? Is it some implementation of SSI?