Primal Origins: Open Source Hardware-Enforced Economic Policy Engine

Primal Origins: Open Source Hardware-Enforced Economic Policy Engine

A new approach to economic systems: policy enforced by physics, not promises

The Problem

Every economic system in history has relied on human enforcement of rules. Central banks, regulators, and institutions can change policies at will. Software-based solutions like smart contracts still depend on mutable code and trusted operators.

The Solution

Primal Origins introduces hardware-enforced economic policy—rules burned into silicon that cannot be altered by any authority, including the creators.

The core innovation is the SMF (Split-Merge-Flow) Unit, which enforces an immutable 6.18% wealth distribution split using metal-mask constants: 38.20% → Founder/Creator 23.61% → Liquidity Pool 38.19% → System Integrity

These ratios are defined as localparam values in RTL—they become part of the physical chip layout and cannot be changed after fabrication.

Verification Depth

This isn't vaporware. The design includes: 1,786,062 tests passed (mathematical, property-based, adversarial, fuzz) Formal SMT proofs via SymbiYosys/Z3 RTL simulation with VCD waveforms (Icarus Verilog) Synthesis analysis (Yosys) Docker reproducible environment—anyone can verify independently

Technical Specifications

Specification Value Precision 128-bit fixed-point Pipeline 3-stage License CERN-OHL-S v2 Target ASIC / FPGA RTL Modules 31 SystemVerilog files

Try It Yourself

Clone and verifydocker build -t primal-verify .docker run --rm primal-verify

Links

OpenCores: https://opencores.org/projects/primal_origins_soc Codeberg (main repo): https://codeberg.org/ErickAlexander/Primal-Origins-SoC-IP-Core Technical Whitepaper: See docs/WHITEPAPER.md

Call for Contributors

We're seeking: FPGA engineers for prototyping Formal verification experts Foundry partners for tape-out

Economic policy that no one can corrupt—because it's physics.