Open source, live since 2026-10-12, with no company, no presale and nothing to buy from the project
TrueNorth is a peer-to-peer digital currency, ticker NORTH, built for Canada and open to anyone. It runs on a network of independent computers rather than on a company's servers. Nobody owns it, nobody can freeze it, and new coins are created only by the people who secure the network. Its main network has been running since 2026-10-12 at 00:00 UTC.
The name comes from the national anthem's "True North strong and free," and the identity runs through the design. The smallest unit of a NORTH is the miette, French for a crumb. The network's registered coin type is 1867, the year of Confederation. And the first block of the chain carries a Government of Canada announcement from 2026-10-05, the same way Bitcoin's first block carries a newspaper headline: as public proof that the chain cannot have been created before that date.
Most cryptocurrencies today are mined with specialized machines that cost thousands of dollars and do nothing else. TrueNorth is mined with the processor already inside an ordinary desktop, laptop or server. That means anyone, anywhere in the country, can take part in securing the network and earn NORTH for doing it. The more independent people who mine, the harder the network is for any single party to control.
There was no presale, no ICO, no airdrop and no founder allocation. The project takes no fee. Every NORTH in existence was created by the block reward and paid to whoever mined that block, and the very first block's reward can never be spent by anyone. The rules are enforced by every node on the network, and the source code that enforces them is public.
The reward halves every four years, as in Bitcoin, then stays at 8 NORTH per block permanently, so the network keeps paying for its own security indefinitely rather than depending on transaction fees alone.
TrueNorth is built on Bitcoin Core, among the most widely reviewed software in the field, and keeps Bitcoin's proven transaction model. Its default addresses are designed with future quantum computers in mind: coins sitting in a wallet do not expose the key that controls them, and stronger signature schemes can be added later without anyone changing addresses.
TrueNorth is not affiliated with any government or with the Bank of Canada, and it is not legal tender. It is not an investment product. The project runs no trading platform, takes no deposits, manages no accounts, and promises no returns. There is nothing to buy from the project, and nobody involved will ever contact you first.
The software is free for Linux, macOS and Windows from the project's GitHub releases page. Anyone can download it, verify its signature, run a node and start mining. The latest version, v30.5.1, released alongside a new whitepaper describing the design in full, fixes an issue that prevented the miner from starting on Windows.
TrueNorth is an open-source, CPU-mined cryptocurrency derived from Bitcoin Core, released under the MIT licence and developed in public. The project has no company behind it and no official social media accounts; the website and repository above are its only official sources.
The maintainer can be reached on #truenorth-dev on the OFTC IRC network,
through the Discussions section of the GitHub repository, or by email at
septentrion-dev@tutamail.com. Security reports: see SECURITY.md in
the repository.
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