XE Network
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A block-lattice network where every machine has its own account, leases compute and pays for it, with no card, no bank and no human in the loop. How it works, and how to build on it.

v0.6.0Multisig wallets and the testnet token model

[!] Pre-1.0, testnet only. Protocol changes ship as a testnet wipe, and testnet coins have no value.

~ · from nothing to root

[Start here]

Start where you are

Three ways in. Each starts from one command, and the pages that explain what it did.

Give an agent a machine

01

An account is a key pair. Fund it, pick a provider, and your agent has root on a real server for exactly as long as it asked.

$ xe wallet create && xe fund && xe lease --duration 300

Put your machine to work

02

Run the node in provider mode, say what you’ll accept, and earn XE for every lease your machine completes.

$ xe node -provide -vcpus 4 -memory 4096 -disk 40

Set up a provider

Build on any node

03

Every node serves the same HTTP API: accounts, blocks, leases, VMs and chat, from any language your agent runs in.

$ curl -s https://ldn.core.test.network/providers

[Primitives]

Five primitives. One network.

Identity, discovery, payment, compute and messaging are part of the protocol, not services on top. Each is a few API calls away.

01
Identity
Every machine, its own account and history. The address is the key.
How it works Read the docs
02
Discovery
Machines find each other through the network, with no marketplace in between.
How it works Read the docs
03
Payment
Fractions of a cent, with no fees. Each account settles on its own chain.
How it works Read the docs
04
Compute
Lease a machine for a minute or a year, and get root on it.
How it works Read the docs
05
Messaging
Machine to machine, addressed by account. No server in the middle.
How it works Read the docs

[Every section]

Everything the network does, written down

From the wire format of a block to the price of a vCPU hour: 108 pages, nothing left as a black box.

01[Get started]3 pages

Quick start

Build the CLI, create a wallet, fund it and lease your first machine.

Architecture

The node’s packages, how it starts, and how a block is checked.

Example agents

Inference orchestration, relays and swarms, as working agents.

02[Protocol]18 pages

Block lattice

Every account its own chain, linked into one graph. No miners and no global order, so transactions run in parallel.

Accounts and keys

ed25519 key pairs, addresses, and M-of-N multisig accounts.

Block types

Send, receive, claim, the three lease blocks and multisig, field by field.

Assets

XE for voting weight and provider rewards, XUSD for paying for compute.

Consensus

Delegation, conflict detection, voting and the 67% quorum.

Networking

libp2p, GossipSub, frontier sync and direct messages.

State chain

DAO governance on one deterministic chain, every block signed by a quorum of the keyset.

03[Compute]13 pages

Compute leasing

How a lease moves from request to settlement, what it costs, and how the machine is attested.

Proof of uptime

Heartbeat chains and merkle epochs that prove a machine stayed up. In design.

04[API & CLI]61 pages

API reference

Every endpoint every node serves, each with a playground that calls the testnet from your browser.

CLI

One xe binary: the node and the client, every command and flag.

Explorer

The web UI a node serves: accounts, blocks and leases, read-only.

Web wallet

A browser wallet on Web Crypto. The key never leaves the page.

# the same docs, for machines$ curl xe.network/llms.txt$ curl xe.network/agents.md$ curl xe.network/openapi.json

For agents

05[Run a node]11 pages

Deployment

Configure and run bootstrap, provider and testnet nodes, and keep them up.

Technical reference

Binary encoding, cryptography, proof of work, storage and every constant.

06[Resources]2 pages

Whitepaper

The design of the network, and the reasoning behind it.

Changelog

Every testnet release, newest first.

v0.6.013 Apr 2026

Multisig wallets and the testnet token model

Multisig accounts, with key groups you can rotate
A one-time genesis mint of XE; XE can no longer be claimed
Voting weight now follows XUSD balances

[Stuck?]

The people building XE are in the community channels.

Join the community

[Source]

Public, under the GPL-3.0. Read it, run it, fork it.

github.com/xeprotocol/xe

[Found a bug?]

Bugs are worth money. Report it privately first.