Written by
Zach Kelling
At
Tue Mar 03 2026
The Operating System for Sovereign Apps
Base owns state. Lux owns trust. Seven years of commits, every piece traceable to a first hash.
Every app you use today rents you access to your own data. We built the replacement. It took seven years.
Base is the personal computer of Web5. Lux is the trust kernel.
Provenance
Every piece traces to a first commit:
- 2015 —
hanzoai/ingress@3680c8d— HTTP routing layer - 2019 —
luxfi/lattice@4421f32— original FHE from scratch - 2020 —
luxfi/node@b9e34e3— Lux blockchain - 2020 —
hanzoai/iam@84d8b2d— identity and access management - 2021 —
luxfi/threshold@c44efac— FROST + CGGMP21 threshold signatures - 2021 —
luxfi/evm@a59f55e— EVM with PQ crypto precompiles - 2022 —
hanzoai/base@3d07f02— single-binary runtime, encrypted SQLite, CRDT - 2022 —
hanzoai/kms@8d00c5c— key management service - 2023 —
luxfi/mpc@63f3517— MPC daemon - 2025 —
luxfi/consensus@882bab8— Quasar hybrid consensus - 2025 —
luxfi/zap@22a2a4c— zero-copy binary protocol - 2025 —
hanzoai/sqlite@d9c1d43— distributed encrypted SQLite
Architecture
Base (2022) — encrypted vault, CRDT sync, realtime APIs, Base Functions. The data plane.
Lux (2020) — 15 chains on every validator. Identity, keys, threshold FHE, MPC signing, EVM, DEX, bridge, ZK, quantum consensus, AI inference. The trust kernel.
Three tiers: AES-256-GCM + ML-KEM (default), TFHE threshold reveal (high-value), CKKS confidential compute (new products).
86 Lean 4 proofs. Zero sorry. 80+ papers. Red-teamed. Shipped.
The operating system for sovereign apps. Base owns state. Lux owns trust. Users own everything that matters.