Press & Media
Everything a journalist, analyst, or partner needs to cover Omne accurately. For interviews, background briefings, or data-room access, press@omne.foundation.
Boilerplate
One-line
Omne is a Layer 1 blockchain built from first principles for commerce — 3-second transaction finality, microscopic fees, and regulatory-native economics.
Short (50 words)
Omne is a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for merchant payments. Its PoVERA dual-layer consensus delivers 3-second commerce finality alongside 9-minute security settlement. Transaction costs stay microscopic by design — not by subsidy. The Ignis devnet is live; the Primum mainnet is in development.
Long (130 words)
Omne is a Layer 1 blockchain designed from first principles for commerce rather than retrofitted from a general-purpose chain. Its PoVERA dual-layer consensus separates two cadences into a single chain: a commerce layer producing blocks every three seconds for point-of-sale-grade finality, and a security layer producing blocks every nine minutes for settlement-grade anchoring. Transaction fees are microscopic and structurally bounded — not auction-priced — through a fee-recycling model (92% to validators, 8% burned) and a dual-token economic design (OMC for gas, OGT for governance, with a 21M hard cap). The Ignis devnet is live at rpc.ignis.omnechain.network, the SDK ships on npm as @omne/sdk, and the protocol is stewarded by a Swiss Foundation (OmneDAO).
Founder
Greg Brown
Founder
Greg is the founder and lead engineer of Omne, author of the PoVERA consensus protocol, the ORC-20 token standard, and the Omne whitepaper. He is building Omne as a protocol specifically for merchant payments — not as a general-purpose L1 retrofitted for commerce.
Key facts
| Protocol name | Omne |
|---|---|
| Network type | Layer 1 blockchain |
| Consensus | PoVERA — Proof of Validated Execution & Resource Attestation |
| Block cadence | Commerce layer 3 seconds; security layer 9 minutes |
| Transaction cost | Less than $0.001 per transaction (structurally bounded, not subsidized) |
| Execution | Deterministic WASM via the Axiom Runtime |
| Tokens | OMC (commerce / gas), OGT (governance, 21M hard cap) |
| Devnet | Ignis — live on Vultr + DigitalOcean |
| Testnet | Testum — forming |
| Mainnet | Primum — in development |
| Governance | OmneDAO — Swiss Foundation (Stiftung), in registration |
| Stewarded wallet | Phaylos — phaylos.xyz |
| Block explorer | OmneScan — omnescan.com |
| SDK | @omne/sdk on npm |
| Whitepaper | Available at omne.foundation/whitepaper |
| Open source | github.com/OmneDAO |
Quotable lines
Lines cleared for quotation. Attribute to Greg Brown, founder of Omne, unless otherwise specified.
“Most blockchains price transactions through an auction and then ask merchants to deal with the outcome. Omne chose the other direction: fees stay at the cost floor by design, and the network earns its income by recycling that cost back to the validators who do the work.”
“Cadence-separated consensus isn't a faster chain. It's two consensus processes running at two different cadences because commerce and settlement are different problems. Don't let the second one slow down the first.”
“A $4.50 coffee cannot bear a $3 fee. That is not a UX problem. That is an economics problem that most chains solved in the wrong direction.”
Brand assets
Downloadable brand-kit package — logo marks, favicons, OG image, color palette, typography reference, and usage guidelines.
Contents:
- Logos— primary mark (flat ink), gradient hero variant, simplified mark for small sizes, wordmark, primary lockup. All SVG.
- Favicons— multi-resolution ICO, PNG 16/32, Apple touch icon (180×180), Android Chrome (192, 512).
- OG image— 1200×630 default card (PNG + SVG source).
- Templates— blog post header (1600×800), per-route OG image. Duplicate + edit + re-render.
- Palette + typography reference— color hex codes, font specifications, usage rules.
Questions about usage, partner lockups, or licensing — press@omne.foundation. Brand guidelines live in the Omne repository at docs/design/brand-id-spec.md.
Naming, for accuracy
- The protocol is Omne— not “Omne Network,” not “Omne Chain.”
- The devnet is Ignis (live). The forming testnet is Testum. The mainnet phase is Primum.
- Consensus is PoVERA— Proof of Validated Execution & Resource Attestation.
- Token symbols are OMC (commerce) and OGT (governance).
- The stewarded wallet is Phaylos, at phaylos.xyz.
- The block explorer is OmneScan, at omnescan.com.
- The Foundation in registration is OmneDAO — a Swiss Foundation (Stiftung) based in the Canton of Zug.
Contact
Media inquiries: press@omne.foundation
Founder direct: @thisgreg_ on X
Security: omne.foundation/security
Typical response time: 24 hours on business days. Interview and embargoed-briefing requests: 48 hours.
This page is updated as the brand kit finalizes and the Testum testnet comes online. Last revision: devnet public launch preparation.