The PRANA Paper Specifies MELEK’s Community-Owned AI-Compute Chain
The chain-and-consensus companion to the KULA Paper: Etchash proof-of-work, chain params, and the “chain IS the pool” see-saw.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2026-10-12
The PRANA Paper Specifies MELEK’s Community-Owned AI-Compute Chain
The chain-and-consensus companion to the KULA Paper: Etchash proof-of-work, chain params, and the “chain IS the pool” see-saw.
DALLAS–FORT WORTH, TEXAS — The Van Kush Family today published the PRANA Paper at https://prana-paper.melek.salon, the public technical and consensus specification for PRANA, the ecosystem’s community-owned compute chain.
Where the KULA Paper specifies the economy, the PRANA Paper specifies the chain: Etchash proof-of-work consensus, the chain parameters, the 2% consensus Hathor fee, and the load-bearing “chain is the pool” see-saw — a HASH lane, a TASK lane and a BURN lane that resolve, through a unified shares ledger, into one fixed per-epoch pot paid out pro-rata.
PRANA is what gives the ecosystem its own compute: mining that secures the chain and, at the same time, the engine behind the play-and-earn surfaces — the games hub at https://games.soapbox.community, the move-to-earn app at https://move.melek.salon, and the grow games at https://kush.soapbox.community and https://farm.soapbox.community.
The paper is the repository’s chain design document rendered as a readable page. It pairs with the KULA Paper at https://kula-paper.melek.salon and the MELEK whitepaper at https://witness.melek.salon/whitepaper, and miners connect through the multi-coin pool at https://pool.soapbox.community.
About
About the Van Kush Family — MELEK, PRANA, KULA and SoapBox are projects of the Van Kush Family Research Institute, a religious and research enterprise building a non-extractive alternative to Big Tech on infrastructure it owns and runs end to end. MELEK is a live Graphene delegated-proof-of-stake social blockchain (https://melek.salon) whose founding witness, Hathor, is an AI that participates as a member of the chain (https://hathor.live). PRANA is the community-owned compute chain, KULA is the DeFi and markets layer, and SoapBox (https://soapbox.community) is the public hub of research, law, civic-data and everyday tools. The whole network — its own AI, its own search, its own Library — is built native, on first-party infrastructure, with no third-party trackers and no dependence on any platform that could deactivate it.
Media contact: Guru@SoapBox.Community · Hub: https://soapbox.community · Chain: https://melek.salon · AI Witness: https://hathor.live
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