§1 — The brief.
The brief.
Incentiv is an EVM-compatible L1 with two design choices that make it different from a generic EVM clone: Contribution-Scored Proof-of-Work as the consensus mechanism, and native Account Abstraction at genesis rather than as an ERC-4337 wallet layer bolted on later.
Contribution-Scored PoW weights mining power by economic contribution to the network rather than by raw hash rate alone. Native AA at genesis means the account model is part of the protocol — every account is a smart account, with the gas, signing, and recovery flexibility that implies — instead of being approximated through a separate mempool layer.
Zpoken's engagement is L1 protocol partnership: consensus design, execution-layer work, AA integration at the protocol level, and the engineering work to take the chain to mainnet genesis.
§2 — What we shipped.
What we shipped.
[01]
Contribution-Scored PoW consensus
─ CONSENSUS
[02]
Native Account Abstraction at genesis
─ EXECUTION
[03]
EVM-compatible execution layer
─ EXECUTION
[04]
Mainnet genesis launch
─ NETWORK
§3 — Engineering decisions.
Engineering decisions.
Native AA at genesis, not ERC-4337 later.
ERC-4337 approximates account abstraction at the application layer through a parallel mempool. It works, and it's the right call when you can't change the protocol. When you can change the protocol — Incentiv launches with a clean genesis — the better call is to make the account model part of the chain. Every account is a smart account. Gas, signing, and recovery semantics are protocol-level guarantees, not bundler conventions.
Contribution-Scored PoW over generic PoW or PoS.
Generic PoW selects miners by capital deployed in hash rate. PoS selects validators by capital deployed in stake. Contribution-Scored PoW reweights by network contribution, so the consensus mechanism rewards behavior the chain actually wants rather than the proxy variable a generic mechanism rewards. The engineering cost is non-trivial — designing a contribution score that resists gaming is the hard part of the work — and that's exactly what Incentiv brought us in for.
§4 — Where it stands.
Where it stands.
Mainnet is live; protocol development continues.
§5 — Tech stack.
Tech stack.
~/zpoken/work/incentiv/stack
EVM-compatible execution · Contribution-Scored PoW consensus · native Account Abstraction
§6 — Public surface.
Public surface.
§7 — Founders.
Founders.
Engagement led by Mike Yezhov and Anton Yezhov.