Questions, answered.

$LAMPORT is a Solana token that protects itself. Every transfer runs through a transfer hook that checks for a second, quantum-proof key. Even if someone steals your wallet key, they can’t move an armed bag.

You hold it like a vault and trade it like any other memecoin.

A transfer hook is a rule a Token-2022 token carries everywhere. Every time anyone moves the token (a send, a sell, a swap, a drainer’s sweep), Solana automatically calls the hook program and asks: is this allowed? If the hook says no, the whole transaction fails.

Most tokens use hooks for fees or game mechanics. $LAMPORT uses its hook for security.

Vaults protect tokens by locking them inside a separate contract. To trade, you withdraw first, and while the tokens are out they are as exposed as ever.

$LAMPORT puts the protection in the token itself. An armed bag stays tradable in your wallet, and every transfer is checked wherever it happens.

If your $LAMPORT is armed, they can’t move it. The hook sees a wallet signature with no second-key proof and rejects the transfer. That covers a phished seed phrase, a malicious approval, a wallet drainer, or a future quantum computer that can forge wallet signatures.

Move your other assets and your SOL to safety, then disarm and re-arm your $LAMPORT from a new wallet at your own pace.

You can disarm with only your wallet, but it takes 7 days. During those 7 days, the second key can cancel the request at any time. A thief who has only your wallet key can start the timer, and you can stop it.

Keep the encrypted backup files you download while arming. They are separate from your seed phrase on purpose.

Yes, and we say it plainly. Burns don’t trigger transfer hooks, so someone with a leaked wallet key can burn armed $LAMPORT. They can never take it, though: a burn only destroys tokens and reduces supply. No thief profits from it.

Not yet. The protection covers $LAMPORT only, because the hook belongs to the $LAMPORT mint. The roadmap extends it: the Lamport Hook standard for new tokens, and armored wrappers (qSOL, qUSDC) for assets you already hold.

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The second key is. It is built only from hash functions (SHA-256 chains and Winternitz / XMSS signatures), the family of schemes considered safe against quantum computers. A quantum computer that breaks ed25519 can forge your wallet signature, but it still can’t produce the next link of your Quick Key.

Your wallet key itself is still ed25519, like every Solana wallet, so anything not protected by the hook is not quantum-proof.

No, and that is the point. The second key is generated independently of your wallet and saved as an encrypted backup that you keep somewhere else. A leaked seed phrase does not leak it, which is why armed $LAMPORT is also protected from ordinary drainers today, not just from future quantum computers.

No. Unarmed holders trade and transfer $LAMPORT like any normal token, and the hook lets them through. Arming is how you turn the protection on for your own bag.

If you don’t arm, you are exactly as exposed as with any other token. That’s the honest trade-off.

Arm your bag →

Arming registers a second key with the hook: a Quick Key (a chain of one-time passwords built from hashes) for everyday transfers, and a Master Key (a hash-based signature) for rare actions like recovery.

From then on, your $LAMPORT only moves when a transaction carries both your wallet signature and proof from the second key. The app attaches that proof for you.

Yes. Liquidity pools are program-owned accounts with no private key, so the hook lets pool transfers through. That means buying always works, from any app.

Unarmed holders sell anywhere. Armed holders sell through the $LAMPORT app (or any integration that attaches the proof), which adds the second-key step to the swap automatically.

Each Quick Key password works once, and anyone watching the network can see it once it is revealed. So the app first announces a sealed commitment to the transfer, waits about two seconds (4 slots), then reveals the password and moves the tokens in one transaction.

Anyone who copies the revealed password is too late: their own announcement would be younger than yours, and your reveal has already moved the anchor forward. You click Send once; the app does both steps.

The Quick Key is for everyday transfers: a secret hashed thousands of times, where only the final result is registered. Each transfer reveals the previous link, and the hook hashes it once to check it.

The Master Key is a heavier hash-based signature (WOTS / XMSS) used only for rare actions: turning protection off, resetting the Quick Key, cancelling recovery. It has 1,024 one-time uses.

The default chain has 10,000 links: one per armed transfer or swap. When it runs low, reset it with a single Master Key signature. Your balance never moves while you do it.

One transaction: the network fee plus a refundable rent deposit of about 0.002 SOL for your Armor account. Armed transfers add one small announce transaction whose rent is refunded at the reveal.

At launch the mint authority, freeze authority and transfer-hook authority are all set to none, and there is no permanent delegate and no transfer fee. After audit, both programs are made immutable, so no single key, including ours, can ever change the hook.

Not yet. This site currently runs on sample data while the on-chain programs are finished and audited. The numbers on the hook monitor, vault and Bounty Wallet are sample data until launch, and no flow on the site asks your wallet to sign anything.

No. $LAMPORT is not affiliated with or endorsed by Leslie Lamport. The name honours his 1979 invention of hash-based one-time signatures, the idea this token puts to work, and Solana’s smallest unit, the lamport, which is named after him.

Three things: the Lamport Hook standard (any new token can plug in the same hook, and one arming setup protects every Lamport-hooked token you hold), armored wrappers (deposit SOL, USDC or any SPL token and get a hook-protected qSOL or qUSDC 1:1), and $LAMPORT as the platform token, with fees from hooked launches and wrappers funding buybacks.

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