Yes, Atto is that small-but-mighty Folding@Home team that quietly climbed past giants to take the #1 spot.


Atto mining activity notably increased starting April 22nd, marking a significant uptick in participation. This surge can be seen here. The Atto team currently has more computing power behind it than any of the >1,000 other teams (leaderboard).

Atto's team number is 1066107. To earn Atto for your mining efforts, set the username to your wallet address, without the 'atto://' prefix. More details

Thanks to everyone already folding with Atto—and to everyone else: jump in. We’ve got proteins to fold.

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Note: Atto is a new cryptocurrency project. Mining through Folding@Home is currently the main way to earn Atto, with 15% of the supply planned to be distributed over a year using this method. Atto has no ICO and is not listed on any exchanges yet.

The founder has personally expressed to me that he thinks lowering the dev fund may be a good idea. I've forwarded your message to him; hopefully we hear from him soon.

For years, people have voiced frustration with high transaction fees, slow confirmation times, and the environmental cost of proof-of-work mining. Several projects have attempted to address these issues, including one that came remarkably close with a feeless, instant settlement model. However, that project struggled with early spam attacks, infrastructure limitations, and reputational damage due to exchange collapses and poor communication. As a result, it never reached the adoption it might have, despite clear technical merit.

Atto is a clean-slate cryptocurrency designed with these lessons in mind. It is not a fork, and it carries no legacy baggage. The goal is simple: fast, feeless, decentralized value transfer, with a narrow focus on reliability and resilience.

Transactions in Atto finalize in approximately 300 milliseconds. There are no transaction fees. The network uses Open Representative Voting (ORV), a consensus mechanism that allows users to delegate voting weight while maintaining decentralization. Since Atto does not rely on mining, it is environmentally friendly, and its supply is fixed from the start.

Significant attention has been paid to spam resistance and scalability. Timestamps allow for dynamic proof-of-work, which adjusts difficulty based on network conditions. Timestamps also help prioritize valid transactions, pre-computed work can be detected and deprioritized, and blocks that reference unconfirmed predecessors are rejected outright. These are direct responses to known attack vectors observed in previous feeless currencies.

Atto deliberately avoids adding features like smart contracts, which often increase complexity and introduce additional risk. The focus is instead on maintaining a minimal, secure, and robust protocol. Only 1% of the total supply was reserved for the founder. There was no ICO and no pre-sale.

Currently, Atto is not listed on any exchanges. Coins are being distributed in a few different ways: through contributions to medical research (Folding@Home), participation in project development, and a public faucet. In the near future, users who help decentralize the network by running nodes will also be able to earn rewards.

I'm not the founder—just a community member who values well-engineered protocols. If you’re interested in a simple, purpose-driven cryptocurrency that avoids many of the pitfalls we’ve seen elsewhere, Atto may be worth your time.

More details, technical documentation, and faucet access are available here: 
→ atto.cash
→ discord.gg/TfQGzEdzKp

Feedback is welcome.