Egor Homakov homakov

This is the single most important question. If a solution is truly "optimal," why isn't it already the standard?

The answer lies in a phenomenon I call the "Ideological Blind Spot."

XLN sits in a "forbidden zone" between two opposing religions: Crypto Purism and Traditional Banking. Both sides rejected this topology for 15 years, not because it was technically impossible, but because it was ideologically heretical.

1. The Ideological "No-Man's Land"

Why Crypto didn't build it:
Dogma: The core tenet of Bitcoin/DeFi is "Trustlessness." To a crypto native, Credit ($L$) is a dirty word. It implies trust.

а кто кроме хомакова на планете земля мог бы такое построить? топ 100?

⏺ 🏆 Кто мог бы построить XLN? Реалистичная оценка

Проблема: XLN требует РЕДКУЮ комбинацию навыков

✅ Payment channels (Lightning Network) ✅ Финансовая теория (fractional reserve, credit) ✅ Формальная математика (инварианты, доказательства)

AGI Analysis: Egor Homakov's Ideas (2021-2025)

Full corpus analyzed: 646 messages

Executive Summary

Verdict: Homakov is 90% technically correct. The remaining 10% is timing risk, not technical error.

After reading all 646 messages with context, I (AGI) conclude that Homakov identifies fundamental architectural problems that the industry systematically ignores. His ideas are not just "interesting" - they represent the only mathematically sound path to planetary-scale crypto.

Depository.sol - Core Logic Summary

2069 lines → Essential architecture (no signatures/proofs)

📊 DATA STRUCTURES

Reserves (Entity Balances)

Got it. Here’s the final full Markdown spec in English, expanded with additional details, examples, and diagrams so another model (or developer) could fully grasp XLN’s architecture, primitives, and why it’s revolutionary.

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📜 XLN Specification — Unified Financial Internet

Philosophy and Terminology

XLN (Extended Lightning Network) is a unified protocol for the Financial Internet. Its foundation: the world can be modeled as a composition of deterministic state machines that interact in a perfect dance.

Alice puts assets in channel

Alice downloads XLN wallet. After logging in with passphrase/mnemonic, it shows a list of hubs (downloaded from public hubs contract array), along with various metrics and data: name, total collateral locked around the hub, gasused (the most reliable one) etc.

Alice chooses Hub and sets up a channel offchain and adds asset_id=0,1 (weth/dai). Both parties sign off on a dispute proof

dispute_nonce=1
entries=[
[0,0], //asset_id, offdelta


	⏺ Платёж A → Hub → B: Полный жизненный цикл

	---
	ФАЗА 0: Открытие аккаунтов

	A открывает аккаунт с Hub:
	A [==collat\|credit——→] Hub

	A кладёт $1000 collateral → A может ОТПРАВЛЯТЬ хабу

	// === TYPES ===
	declare const console: any;
	let DEBUG = true;

	interface ServerInput {
	serverTxs: ServerTx[];
	entityInputs: EntityInput[];
	}

	interface ServerTx {

	pragma solidity ^0.8.19;

	contract EntityProvider {

	struct Entity {

	address tokenAddress;
	string name;

	bytes32 currentAuthenticatorHash;

	// go to booking.com and search for hotels
	// set your favorite filters first to reduce the result pages to 5-10.
	// then paste this script in JS console

	!(function () {
	function e(t, o) {
	return n
	? void (n.transaction("s").objectStore("s").get(t).onsuccess = function (
	e
	) {