# Rldcoin — Publication and implementation scope

Reviewed 20 October 2026. The current [white paper](https://rldcoin.com/whitepaper), dated 20 October 2026, is bound by the [prefix-root amendment publication record](https://rldcoin.com/documents/rldcoin-whitepaper-release-2026-10-20-prefix.json).

## What is specified

The paper defines one RLD monetary identity, a 21 million lifetime issuance cap and zero initial allocation. It composes local PBFT settlement, stable-grant public-work issuance, funded source-bound receiving capabilities, independent cancel-or-release controllers, one-time destination import or rejection, rejection-only recovery after release, recursive execution relations and explicit acceptance covers. Canonical objects, finite resource limits and conditional safety/progress arguments appear in the paper.

## What publication does not establish

Publication does not provide a completed monetary implementation, authenticated executable RLD guest images, independent security qualification, measured proving costs, achieved payment latency or sustained payment capacity. Cryptographic backend soundness, program correctness, durable custody, anti-rollback protection, available current data, funded archives and succession require their own evidence.

No active mainnet or operational interstellar payment route is established. An actual monetary launch needs a separately authenticated zero-initial-issuance, zero-allocation genesis, fresh monetary keys and explicit adoption of the completed executable construction. This website implements no wallet connection, token sale or transactions.

## Existing code and historical observations

The [protocol repository](https://github.com/RunlaiDeng/rldcoin) maintains source-specific implementation requirements, results and limits. Existing testnets and ground candidates retain their separate protocol identities and no-value scope. Their observations do not automatically implement or qualify this construction. Test balances and keys never migrate into monetary assets or authority.

Earlier successes and failures remain historical under their exact sources and assumptions. The website's [network page](https://rldcoin.com/network) separates its current publication scope from a clearly labeled historical ground-evidence section. That section neither retroactively passes failed scopes nor supplies evidence for the new construction. External operator telemetry may be stale or unavailable and is not independent verification.

The old overview, editorial-separation record, superseded publication receipts, prior paper and obsolete figures are retained byte-for-byte in the website repository's non-served historical archive and Git history. They are not current operating instructions. The current [mechanism overview](https://rldcoin.com/documents/rldcoin-overview.md) summarizes the paper without inheriting the old supply, confirmation, maturity, channel or global-work selection rules.

## Inspect the current sources

- [Canonical Markdown](https://rldcoin.com/documents/rldcoin-whitepaper.md)
- [Canonical PDF](https://rldcoin.com/documents/rldcoin-whitepaper.pdf)
- [Publication record](https://rldcoin.com/documents/rldcoin-whitepaper-release-2026-10-20-prefix.json)
- [Developer resources](https://rldcoin.com/developers)
- [Protocol repository](https://github.com/RunlaiDeng/rldcoin)
- [Website repository](https://github.com/RunlaiDeng/rldcoin-website)