Manifesto

Version 0.1.0 | March 2025

Drafted by: Kresna Sucandra, MD

📜 Preface

JamLiquor is a cleanroom, purpose-built client for the JAM Protocol. It embodies the JAM vision through five uncompromising principles:

  1. Lightweight: It must run on edge devices, not just cloud infrastructure.

  2. Decentralized: It empowers everyone, not just validators with datacenters.

  3. Adaptive: It leverages AI to understand and respond to changing network conditions.

  4. Quantum-Resistant: It prepares for tomorrow’s threats today.

  5. Simple: It is auditable, comprehensible, and intentionally minimal.

JamLiquor is not a blockchain project with JAM inside—it is JAM through and through, extended only by modular, non-invasive innovation.

It is not a fork, nor a vision. It is a JAM client, ready to be tested, trusted, and deployed by anyone who shares these values.

🌎 The World We Inherit

The Cost of Centralization

Modern blockchains are choking on their own success. The dream of decentralization has given way to corporate-controlled validator monopolies, energy-hungry consensus algorithms, and network layers requiring elite infrastructure.

But the truth is simple:

⚠️ A blockchain that cannot run on a $10 board is a failed experiment in decentralization.

JamLiquor restores balance by being lean enough to run on edge devices, IoT hardware, and personal hardware anywhere. True decentralization isn’t in data centers—it belongs everywhere.

The Rise of Adaptive Infrastructure

Blockchains shouldn’t be blind to the world around them. JamLiquor integrates:

  • AI inference to tune performance and security

  • Context-awareness to monitor and respond to network conditions

  • Autonomous intelligence to simplify validator and system maintenance

Blockchains must evolve—or be outpaced.

The Quantum Threat

Assumptions that power today's cryptography—ECDSA, sr25519, RSA—will be broken in tomorrow’s quantum age.

JamLiquor acts now:

  • Uses Dilithium, Kyber, and XMSS via modular interfaces

  • Prepares for forward secrecy and quantum-safe key rotation

  • Builds confidence in systems that must last decades

Quantum readiness is not optional—it is existential.

The Simplicity We Lost

As blockchain ecosystems evolved, so did their complexity: rollups, recursive proofs, bridges, multichains.

JamLiquor chooses another path:

  • One execution model

  • One unified state

  • One protocol: JAM

Minimalism is not regression—it is resilience.

⚡ The JamLiquor Principles

1. Lightweight by Design

If your blockchain needs a server farm, it isn’t decentralized. JamLiquor is:

  • Built for <128MB RAM devices

  • Targeted for RISC-V edge hardware

  • Performance-aware at compile time

Curious how blockchain can realistically run on low-resource devices like Milk-V Duo? See EDGE.md page for a full breakdown of how JAM, PolkaVM, and distributed architecture make it possible.

2. Decentralization Must Be Real

JamLiquor enables:

  • Participation from anyone, anywhere

  • Local-first networking

  • No dependence on centralized relays

3. Adaptability Through Inference

By embedding AI:

  • Smart contracts can observe their environment

  • Nodes can self-optimize

  • Systems become predictive, not reactive

Want to know how AI inference powers adaptation in JamLiquor? See AI.md to explore real-time, context-aware smart contract behavior and validator logic.

4. Quantum Resistance is Non-Negotiable

JamLiquor offers:

  • PQ-safe keypairs as drop-in replacements

  • Seamless signature validation across quantum and classical users

  • Modular upgrades for future cryptography

Curious about how JamLiquor defends against quantum threats? Check out PQC.md for our approach to integrating Dilithium, Kyber, and more.

5. Simplicity is Power

Every line of code in JamLiquor serves a purpose. There are no:

  • Unnecessary abstractions

  • Recursive circuits

  • Unverifiable complexity

The more complex the system, the easier it is to break—and harder to fix.

🌌 The Vision: JamLiquor in a JAM World

Imagine a world where:

  • A decentralized city council runs on a $9 Milk-V Duo

  • Validators self-regulate through AI without human tuning

  • Long-term data and contracts remain valid in a post-quantum future

  • Citizens can audit and build their own JAM node in a weekend

JamLiquor is how we get there.

📦 Roadmap

Milestone 1: Importer

  • JAM-compliant state machine

  • CoreTime and WorkReports

Milestone 2: Authorer

  • SAFROLE authoring

  • Ring VRF integration

Milestone 3: PolkaVM

  • 64-bit RISC-V backend

  • JAM syscall model support

Milestone 4: Extensions

  • PQC module: jamliquor-pqc

  • AI Inference module: jamliquor-ai

  • Lite runtime for <128MB devices: jamliquor-lite

Milestone 5: Edge + Performance Validation

  • Finality under 20s on 128MB RAM

  • Throughput parity with JAM spec

🚀 Final Words

JamLiquor is more than a JAM client. It is a statement of belief:

That decentralization must be simple. That security must be future-proof. That intelligence must be built-in. That access must be universal.

This is the JAM client we deserve. This is JamLiquor.

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