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How the federation works

One Layer-1 core. Independent Sovereign Cells. FX-style settlement. Proof on every movement.

2.8M lines·350+ services·Built from scratch·Post-quantum at source and gate·Tier 1 and Tier 2 ~30 days·Live reference cells

The core

A single hardened Layer-1, written from scratch for regulated finance.

The JIL L1 is approximately 2.8 million lines of original source code across more than 350 services. It provides shared finality, interoperability, and the cryptographic foundation every cell runs on. The protocol is maintained, patched, and hardened. Cells do not share one global ledger. They share one engine.

This is not a fork of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, or any other existing ledger. The ledger, the virtual machine, the compliance engine, the currency platform, and the proof layer are original.

What ships in the core

The stack a cell actually runs

These are not add-ons. They are how value is allowed to move.

Ledger and consensus

Shared finality for every cell. Post-quantum validator identity from genesis. Supermajority quorum. The rule speaks before the block.

Policy-aware VM

Contracts cannot talk their way around the gate. Policy is evaluated in consensus, not after a lawsuit.

Digital Currency Platform

A currency is a managed instrument: issuer, reserves, mint and burn authority, identity, jurisdiction, and a live policy profile. Not a stray token contract.

ATCE

The Adaptive Trust, Compliance and Execution Engine. Identity, policy, and risk are evaluated before settlement is allowed. Fail-closed.

Proof layer

Every material action produces a signed, timestamped, tamper-evident record. CourtChain anchors those receipts. Proof is a control, not a PDF after the fact.

Three-shard MPC

2-of-3 threshold. No complete private key in one place. No seed phrase. Recovery is a ceremony. Post-quantum at the source and at the gate.

Sovereign Cells

A locally governed digital economy, connected to the federation but not subordinate to it.

  • Its own currency object, or several
  • Local issuance and policy control
  • Local compliance posture and identity rules
  • Own chain identity, genesis, and validators
  • Connection to the federation for cross-cell settlement
  • Treasury, reserves, and banking connectors (SWIFT, ACH, SEPA, RTP, FedNow and local rails)

Cells do not surrender monetary sovereignty. They gain a common settlement and proof layer.

How a unit of currency lives

01

Mint

Deposit assets, verify reserves, pass policy validation, mint, settle. Every step produces an immutable audit receipt.

02

Circulate

Every transfer is evaluated against the instrument's own rules: identity, jurisdiction, limits, live risk, before it executes.

03

Redeem

Redemption request, burn currency, release reserve assets. The proof-of-reserve ledger updates and publishes.

Cross-cell settlement

Inside a cell, transfers follow that cell's rules.

Between cells, settlement is an exchange of cell-native tokens at a negotiated rate: the same conceptual model as the interbank foreign-exchange market. KYC and KYB information travel with the transaction. Both buyer and seller can reject. Compliance is evaluated before finality.

Corridors are governed Digital Treaties, not open bridges. The destination pins source identity and arrival policy. Dual-signed releases. Replay protection. In-consensus re-check on credit.

Proof is produced before value moves, not after. That ordering is the difference between an audit trail and a control.

Venues and proof

What a cell can stand up

Proof DEX ยท AMM v5

A regulated launch and liquidity venue. Ring-fenced pools, quarantined proceeds, staged release. Every state change emits an anchored proof.

ProofGuard

KYC and KYB gating, lock controls, sell throttles, risk scoring. No federated liquidity until a project earns graduation.

CourtChain

Evidence anchoring for every material event. Receipts are cryptographically verifiable and built to court-grade standards.

LaunchPad

Institutional token launch on the licensed core, with the same identity and proof rules as the rest of the cell.

Wallet

Entry at getjil.com. Three-shard MPC. No seed phrase. Works alongside hardware wallets.

Digital Twin

An interactive sandbox of one cell: cabinet, regulator, institution, and public views. Open the demo.

Tiers

Three deployment shapes. The same core underneath all of them.

TierWho it is forWhat you getTypical time
Tier 1Smaller banks, retail institutions, early programsLightweight cell on the managed backbone~30 days
Tier 2Country-level or jurisdictional deploymentsGreater local control, still on the shared core~30 days
Tier 3Institutions that must self-hostFull operational control on your servers, still federatedLonger: weeks, not years

Traditional from-scratch builds often cost $40 to $60 million and take three to four years. Tier 1 and Tier 2 cells are designed to reach operational status in approximately 30 days.

Live reference cells

Three surfaces you can open today. They demonstrate architecture. They are not licensed national deployments.

Nubara

Nation 1 reference cell. Local issuance, identity on transfer, compliance before settlement. Currency JN1.

demo1.jilsovereign.net โ†’

Tirmore

Nation 2 reference cell. Cross-cell settlement and the FX-style corridor. Currency JN2.

demo2.jilsovereign.net โ†’

JIL.ai

Federation live reference cell. Utility surface for provisioning cells, corridors, proofs, and Proof DEX. VARA-framed.

jilcrypto.ai โ†’

ATCE

The Adaptive Trust, Compliance and Execution Engine.

ATCE evaluates identity, policy, and risk before settlement is allowed. No regulated action inside a Sovereign Cell executes without passing through it: issuance, mint and burn, treasury transfers, cross-border settlement, redemptions, emergency controls. Compliance is not a report produced after the fact. It is a condition of movement.

See what this looks like for your organization

Briefings are scoped to your jurisdiction, your tier, and the corridors you actually need.