Shioncoin (SHC) is a virtual currency capable of quick fund transfer and extended transactions that provide additional usefulness than fund transfers alone.

The shioncoin virtual currency utilizes scrypt-based proofing with a block reward-span of half a billion coins over the course of 40 years. Any litecoin (LTC) scrypt compatible miner device can be used. The currency has a one-minute confirmation time (block difficulty), and a minimum fund transfer fee of 0.00001 SHC.

Extended transactions provide capabilities such as named public aliases for coin addresses, contextual information, geodetic tagging, certificate licensing, and smart-contract execution.

Additional frame-work has been put into place in order to introduce additional extended transactions over time. Extended transactions are versioned in order to allow additional extensibility if warranted.

The extended transactions are designed to be compatible with the libshare runtime library; such as authorizing features in software through certificates purchased on the SHC block-chain, identity attributes, and contextual information databases.

Shioncoin v3.1 Phase I "Dahlia" (January 2018)

• Public release.
• Matrix extended transactions for block-chain integrity verification.
• Spring matrix support for geodetic based rewards.
• Extended transaction support for context, certification, and address aliases.

Shioncoin v3.2 Phase II "Iris" (January 2019)

• Colored coin alternate block-chains.
• Offer extended transactions for decentralized coin exchange.
• Certified Asset extended transaction.
• Notarized validation transactions.
• BIP68 (sequence locks) consensus ends.
• Testnet support for smart-contract "SEXE" executable classes.
• Testnet segwit consensus period begins.
• ARM64 (aarch64) compiler support [for raspberry PI].

Shioncoin v4.1 Phase III "Acacia" (January 2020)

• Shioncoin segwit consensus period starts.
• SHA256D, Keccak, X11, Blake2S, Qubit, Groestl, Skein PoW Algorythms.
• Dilithium Coin Address Signature

Shioncoin v5.1 Phase IV "Sanctum" (January 2021)

• Support ESL Protocol for RPC operations.

Shioncoin v6.1 Phase V "Ixora" (January 2022)

• GUI Wallet/Explorer Application
• Dynamic Blockchain Parameters

Shioncoin v7.1 Phase VI "Justicia" (January 2023)

• BOLO: External blockchain notorized transactions.

Shioncoin v8.1 Phase VII "Freya" (January 2024)

• Public release of executable smart-contract "SEXE" classes.

Current BIP/SIP Specification Capabilities

BIP16: Pay to Script Hash BIP34: Block v2, Height in Coinbase BIP39: Mnemonic key generation BIP65: OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY BIP66: Strict DER signatures BIP68: Relative lock-time using sequence BIP141: Segregated Witness

SIP00: Shioncoin Whitepaper SIP01: Extended Transactions SIP02: Matrix SIP03: Certification SIP04: Alternate Blockchain SIP05: Certificate SIP06: Coin Address Alias SIP07: Executable SIP08: Ident SIP10: Context SIP11: Coin Exchange Offer SIP20: The Verification Matrix SIP21: The Spring Matrix SIP22: Colored Alternate Blockchain SIP23: Certified Coin Transfer SIP24: Certified License SIP25: Licensed Asset SIP26: Executable SEXE Class SIP32: Multiple PoW Algorythm SIP33: Dilithium Address Signature

The Shioncoin Whitepaper contains a recent listing of shioncoin implementation proposals.