Every vote is hash-based (LMS/HSS over SHAKE-256) under an SLH-DSA root — the consensus itself is post-quantum, not just the wallets. Epoch badges climb when a validator rotates its signing tree — automatic since v0.10.5; on testnet-1 all four seats rotated unattended on 2026-09-03 (heights 11,584–11,595).
EXTERNAL marks a seat admitted on the running chain by a certificate from more than ⅔ of the current seats — the first one landed in block 72219 on 2026-09-05. The external-nodes row is the gateway's own live peer table (hk_getPeers, v0.15.2): every kit node bootstraps through it. These validators run on Google Cloud; the prover lives elsewhere entirely. Want a seat?
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