Lightpaper

High-level overview of the DouChain protocol and vision.

DouChain Lightpaper

The DouChain Lightpaper is the shortest path to understanding why DouChain exists and how its v0.7 Dragon Burn monetary policy works.

• Title: DouChain: The Unchained L1 – Dragon Burn Edition
• Version: v0.7
• Status: Pre-launch (as of November 18, 2025)

It covers:

• The final-mover thesis and why DouChain is built last, not first
• Masterchain, workchains, and dynamic sharding
• Dou-BFT consensus
• DOU-ID identity layer
• The Dragon Burn: Genesis 5.21B → Pi Cap 3.14B (2.07B burnable)
• The v0.5 Elastic Fee Router and the transition from Burn Phase to Maturity Phase
• Roadmap from testnet to mainnet

📄 Download PDF: /papers/lightpaper-en.pdf
🌐 Read on the web: /lightpaper

This section will be updated as the canonical lightpaper is revised.