AMA with Dmitry Gerasimov, October 23, 2025

Hello everyone, I’m Dmitry Gerasimov, lead of the Cellframe Network project and here’s our regular AMA session. Let's start with the first question.

Are there any plans to migrate CELL from the unsecured BEP-20 and ERC-20 networks to the Cellframe mainnet? What would be the timeline and the conditions for this migration? What options are being considered for holders in these networks?

Yes, we have such plans.

However, it's more a mix of plans and hopes because it's not our keys, not our tokens, so it's up to CELL holders to migrate BEP-20 and ERC-20 tokens to the Backbone. The problem is the major centralized exchanges we work with still do not integrate CF20 and still support only these two unsecured networks. This forces users of these exchanges to hold these unsecured tokens.

Yes, we will have different programs that can help them to migrate tokens or maybe some addition for migration. We talk about quantum insurance, it's a method that connects your secure wallet, Cellframe wallet, with your unsecured funds, something like quantum vault on other projects. These are all just stopgap measures, and that's the real problem. So yes, we have plans, but the timeline for them extends into next year.

I think it's a challenge to migrate fast.

Experts are predicting a bull run. There's a chance the price of CELL could reach a level that reflects the project's true value. What steps is the team planning to take during this period?

If it happens, I believe the price will reach highs and peaks, but the extent is hard to predict. It's difficult to foresee the exact trajectory.

One of the biggest steps we’ll take in the near future is the Post-Quantum Dawn side event at Blockchain Life next week. Stay tuned!

While Cellframe's technology is unique, in the crypto world, investor attention often follows price movements. What activities is the team planning to demonstrate the project's progress and attract more market attention?

Also, a similar question about our activities, the Post- Quantum Dawn side event I mentioned before, and other activities.

The team recently announced an investigation into the fake m-tokens situation. How is that investigation progressing, and what sanctions will be imposed on the perpetrators?

Investigation focused on a few persons that were responsible for this hack, at least for part of this hack. We are calculating how big the impact was caused by this hack and depending on this calculation, these individuals will be offered the opportunity to compensate the damages to the legitimate holders and I think that should do it.

If they refuse, I think we'll go to legal action, but I will try to exclude this and stay on a goodwill deal.

In light of the m-tokens incident, are there any planned changes to the reward and penalty policy for validators?

No, there are no direct changes to these policies. However, we are making and proposing some updates at the protocol level.

In the near future, we’ll release significant updates that will include more fine-tuned mechanics to block and arbitrate malicious blockchain activity. For example, right now we can only block addresses, not specific illegal outputs, and we have no ability to redirect these outputs, for instance, to a designated address or similar mechanism.

In the future, we plan to introduce a community-elected role — people who will be responsible for monitoring the market and identifying suspicious or malicious activity. They will act like “sheriffs,” able to arbitrate such cases and redirect the related funds to a special community-driven pool or fund.

It’s a long and complex process. It will involve updates to both the penalty and reward policies, but I believe these changes will be implemented in a few months, not earlier.

According to the project's tokenomics, a total of 2 million CELL tokens were issued to support the team's work in 2023 and 2024 combined. How many tokens are allocated for this purpose in 2025 and 2026?

In 2025, the allocation remains the same, while in 2026 it’s planned to be reduced, we’ll hold a community vote on this. I should update the tokenomics that will include all these values for sure.

There haven’t been any changes so far. The tokenomics already mentioned those values for 2025, but without detailed explanations. We decided to postpone the update until the end of 2025, before the vote on the 2026 allocation. I’ll publish the updated version, and we’ll discuss it with the community, whether to keep the allocation or reduce it further.

It might even be reduced to zero after 2025, we haven’t decided yet. We’ve been considering all possible allocations: for validators, stakers, and the balance between them, but haven’t finalized anything.

We expect to revisit this at the end of November, since in early December we’ll be voting on validator allocations, which is currently a higher priority.

We previously attempted to adjust this without community approval, but faced resistance and had to roll it back. The final decision will be made during the December vote.

What is the progress on implementing the hardfork and second-layer sharding? Is this functionality planned for the node 6.0 release?

As for the hard fork and second-layer sharding, they’re planned for version 6.1 or possibly 6.2, not sure yet.

Anyway, we need to move quickly, because the blockchain size keeps growing. It’s getting larger and larger, and we have to reduce it to lower memory requirements for full nodes, that’s a priority.

Are there any plans to expand the hardware node product line and scale up production?

It depends on demand and order volume. If you order more nodes, we’ll expand our hardware product line, that’s easy to do.

Regarding the Cellframe hackathon: do you plan to provide examples of potential projects built on Cellframe to assist participants? Or perhaps hold a live stream and create a small t-dApp in real-time?

Yes. Last time I tried, I ran into some issues while building a C-based application, it’s still quite difficult with the current SDK.

However, the upcoming 6.0 Cellframe SDK is much simpler. For example, it’s built as a shared library, so it can be easily integrated with C applications. It compiles into a dedicated shared library and automatically generates included files, making integration much easier.

The same goes for Python, it now features a completely reworked, high-level API that was missing in the previous version.

I’m planning to run some live streams with live demonstrations to show how it works.

The Cellframe team is currently preparing for Blockchain Life and planning a side event there. Do you already have plans for 2026 events? Which major forums are you planning to attend?

Yes, we plan to attend top-tier forums, as usual.

Google's team has announced the launch of the Willow chip, calling it the "holy grail of quantum computing." Does this mean the quantum apocalypse is imminent?

It’s not imminent because of this chip. Who knows which technology will be the final step toward the quantum apocalypse. Maybe this chip, maybe another.

The team previously announced improvements to the staking website interface to also include an option for delegating m-tokens. How is development on this functionality progressing?

It's progressing, It’s waiting for the 6.0 release; development will continue after that.

What about the wrapped BTC idea? How much time would it take to implement?

We discussed this idea about six years ago, and some parts of it are already implemented in the Cellframe code, so implementing it wouldn’t be too difficult. However, the question is: do we actually need it?

For example, if we wrap USDC, we could negotiate with Circle and agree that they will accept our wrapped tokens in the event of a quantum apocalypse.

But with wrapped BTC, who would be responsible? After a quantum event, any wrapped BTC on our side would need to return to the BTC network. However, it would be linked to a Taproot pool protected by classical cryptography, how would it prove that it has been properly returned?

I think it’s possible, but it needs further investigation. So maybe, yes, we will find a reason to implement it.

Polkadot auction model doesn't work very well since some seasons, how does Cellframe plan to do differently with CELL chain?

Our auction model is different because it’s more like airdrop staking. A staking program where you stake one token and receive another. It’s not competitive, since we have many more slots than participating projects. If the situation changes, we might adjust it, but for now, I think it works well.

The main difference from Polkadot is that we don’t drain liquidity from participating projects. We also have very low requirements for the amount of tokens allocated for airdrops; the exact amount depends on what is comfortable for each project.

Do you have plans to integrate CF20 on Gate.io and MEXC?

Yes, I have such plans, as well as on MEXC and Gate.io. However, they’re still waiting for something, I’m not exactly sure what.

I think the first step will be reworking the Cellframe DEX and attracting liquidity for it. This should help us move forward with listing our protocol on CMC and CoinGecko.

After that, I believe integrating CF20 on MEXC and Gate.io will be easier.

Does Cellframe have funds to sustain itself if things don't pick up?

Yes. This may be the last year of active development; I believe next year will see less intensive development and be more community-driven.

Right now, we’re mainly focused on major refactoring and paying off technical debt. We’re not adding much new functionality at this stage. Once we’ve completed all planned functionality and delivered everything we promised, we can start new initiatives on the Cellframe network.

At the moment, our spending is minimal. AI has been very helpful, we’ve managed to cut development costs by half over the past few months, so supporting the network is not a big issue right now.

Is reworking the DEX a high priority at the moment?

Yes, it’s a high priority because we need to focus on making it more user-friendly for traders. Currently, it lacks some important functionality, such as partial order closing. Once we implement this, it will be possible to onboard market makers and bot operators, and we expect to see much more activity on the DEX.

We’re also planning additional functionality in version 6.0, or maybe 6.1, such as stop-loss orders.

That’s all the questions for today. Thank you for your time and for all your support. We are CELL, we are here.

Goodbye, and see you next time!