By James Isham Williams, founder of Synthos Collective · October 28, 2026

TL;DR

Synthos Collective is an independent Layer 1 blockchain, written in Go, that has run on CometBFT consensus since October 22, 2026. Four validators with equal stake produce a block about every 12 seconds, and each block is final the moment it is committed. Two of those validators are rented servers; the other two are ordinary HP desktops in a home. The native coin is SYN, with a fixed supply of 100 billion. Synthos Collective also posts its block fingerprints to Base, so anyone can check its history against a second, independent chain.

The problem: validators live in a few data centers

A blockchain is only as independent as the machines that run it.…