Genesis and params

Genesis bootstraps chain state, internal contracts, and initial balances.

Genesis block creation

genesis_block performs:

• State initialization and internal contract setup.

• Funding of configured genesis accounts (including dev/test keys when used).

• Genesis treasury account creation and shielded pool seeding.

• Emission of genesis transactions (create2 factory, optional shielded key).

• Construction of the genesis header with initial difficulty and gas limit.

Explicit genesis issuance logic

Current native genesis target is 3,900,000,000 MAZZE.

In code, genesis accounting is two-step:

1. Credit explicit genesis accounts first.

2. Mint only the remaining amount needed to reach the configured genesis total.

This avoids double-counting between explicit allocations and the special genesis-account mint path.

Shielded pool bootstrap at genesis is a treasury transfer, not extra issuance. See ../tokenomics/shielded-pool-genesis-fund.md.

Genesis inputs

• genesis_accounts and genesis_secrets can override the account set.

• execute_genesis controls whether genesis is executed or loaded from db.

Chain parameters

Configuration exposes key consensus parameters:

• initial_difficulty

• era_epoch_count

• referee_bound

• adaptive_weight_beta, heavy_block_difficulty_ratio

• timer_chain_block_difficulty_ratio, timer_chain_beta

• transaction_epoch_bound

Hardfork transitions are also configured by height/epoch.

Key source files

• crates/mazzecore/core/src/genesis_block.rs

• crates/client/src/configuration.rs

• crates/mazzecore/internal_common/src/chain_id.rs

• crates/mazzecore/parameters/src/lib.rs