Genesis Operator

Genesis is where a Liqua chain comes into being. There are two dimensions to it: the ecosystem genesis constitutes every app surface into a deterministic height-0 block, and the network genesis is the seed node everyone else bootstraps from. BOOT IS GENESIS (R7). This page runs both.

Two kinds of genesis

Ecosystem genesis

Every app in the ecosystem becomes a CELL inside an ORGAN; the genesis SOMA-256 root (chain/soma.mjs) commits the whole ecosystem plus the chain parameters at height 0. The manifest in genesis/ecosystem.genesis.mjs is the source of truth — 9 organs, 31 cells.

The committed parameters

These are baked into the genesis root. Changing any of them produces a different genesis — which, on a live chain, requires a 98% governance vote (§6).

The organs

Nine organs, each expressing a molecular layer, each holding its member apps as cells:

Compute the genesis block

node genesis/genesis.mjs
# pin a different genesis timestamp (still deterministic):
GENESIS_TS=1735689600 node genesis/genesis.mjs

It prints a per-organ SOMA-root table, the final SOMA-256 root and its keccak (EVM) mirror, the readiness summary, and the §1c boot loop — then writes the artifact to genesis/genesis.block.json.

  ▰▰ LIQUA · GENESIS  chain 8888 · Liqua · genesis-v1
  public seed   LIQUA·ECOSYSTEM·GENESIS·v1·7SLF·DREWLESS
  genesis ts    2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z  (deterministic)
  ORGAN                 LAYER     CELLS    SOMA root
  CORE · Flagship       DNA       6/6      37d309f2…
  …
  SOMA-256 root  0x37d309f2…091ec80a
  ecosystem      9 organs · 31 cells · 31 ready
  ✓ GO · ecosystem ready for genesis

The readiness gate

Genesis is honest by construction: every committed surface must exist on disk. If one is missing, the builder reports ▲ HOLD, lists the missing surfaces, and exits 1 — the ecosystem is not yet ready. All present → ✓ GO, exit 0. It's a deterministic gate you can put in CI.

The artifact

genesis.block.json is the height-0 block: version, chain, publicSeed, genesisTs, prevHash (all-zero — genesis has no parent), paramsHash, chainMaster, hash {algo, soma, evm}, the per-organ organs[] roots, the full params, a meta note pinning the 98% change rule, and the §1c boot loop: SEED → GENESIS → RENDER → COMMIT → META.VERIFY → INSTANCE.

Network genesis · the seed node

The other half: stand up the node others bootstrap from. It prints its lnode:// URI — hand that to joiners as their --bootnode (full walkthrough in Run a Peer):

node node/start.mjs --seed genesis --port 30303

Peers don't re-download your genesis block to agree on it — they compute the genesis id (the SOMA root) and the STATUS gate rejects anyone whose chainId or genesis doesn't match. The two dimensions meet here: the ecosystem root is what the network agrees on.

Public seed vs private seed

The public seed (LIQUA·ECOSYSTEM·GENESIS·v1·7SLF·DREWLESS) is deterministic and shared — it is not a secret. An instance only exists once a private seed genesises against it (R6 · instance = auth). This is the same dual-seed model your wallet uses, applied to the whole chain.