Hashrate (H/s) Booster
Miners can boost their Hashrate with up to 100% based on their wallet contribution. Only 100 Hashrate boosting packs will be given out.
Proof-of-work on Solana.
Equihash 96,5 is memory-bound rather than compute-bound. A GPU's edge over a multi-core CPU is bounded — typically 5-10x, not the 1000x you see with SHA-based proof-of-work. Reference CPU and GPU miners are both open source.
Generate
Your machine hashes random nonces against the current network challenge. Each nonce is an independent attempt at the puzzle.
Solve
When a nonce produces a hash that falls under the difficulty target, you have an Equihash solution. The puzzle is bound to your wallet address, so the solution cannot be front-run.
Earn
Submit the solution as a Solana transaction. The on-chain program verifies it and transfers 25 EQM to your wallet. Rounds close roughly every minute.
Retargets every hour.
Every 60 blocks the protocol compares elapsed time to the 60-minute target and adjusts the difficulty within a [0.5x, 2x] clamp. The convention follows Bitcoin's retarget, with tighter damping suited to the shorter window.
Block reward halves every ~8.6 months.
The reward starts at 25 EQM per block and halves at fixed intervals: 12.5, 6.25, and so on. The emission curve mirrors Bitcoin, mapped to roughly one-minute blocks, so 99% of supply is produced within the first decade.
Your machine is the rig.
Equihash 96,5 uses roughly 50 MB of memory per thread and runs on any modern CPU. Solutions take a few seconds to find, and block rewards are delivered directly to your wallet.
Fixed supply. No insider allocation.
The 21,000,000 total supply is split into a 10% premine reserved for DEX liquidity and a 90% pool produced through mining. Mint authority is revoked at launch, so the cap is structural and enforced at the SPL Token level.
Same curve as Bitcoin, ~8.6 months between halvings at 1-min blocks.
Cap enforced on-chain.
Mint authority is revoked at launch, so no future inflation is possible. This is enforced at the SPL Token program level, not by Equium's own program logic.
No team allocation.
The 10% premine is reserved for DEX liquidity and operational costs. There are no founder tokens and no team vesting schedule.
Empty rounds reduce float.
If a round closes without a winning solution, the unminted reward remains in the program vault permanently. The protocol does not issue IOUs against future blocks.
Common questions.
Maybe, maybe not. Equium is an experiment in fair-launch distribution rather than a yield product. The protocol issues 25 EQM per block to whoever submits the first valid solution, but the market value of those tokens is determined by demand on the open market and is not guaranteed.
It will mine, just slower. The network adjusts difficulty so blocks arrive at roughly the same cadence regardless of total hashrate, but the share of those blocks you win scales with your CPU. A modest machine still earns a proportional amount — less than a workstation, but the math is the same.
No. Each Equihash solution is bound to the wallet address that submits it, because the puzzle input includes the miner's pubkey. Replaying a captured solution from a different wallet produces a different puzzle and fails on-chain verification.
Transaction costs and finality. A mine transaction costs a fraction of a cent, which keeps the economics viable even at the lowest block rewards. Equivalent protocols on higher-fee chains would cost more in gas than the reward is worth. Sub-second block finality also means winners are confirmed quickly.
Yes. Mint authority is revoked at the SPL Token level before the public launch. After that, no additional EQM can ever be created by anyone — the cap is enforced by the runtime, not by promises in protocol code.
The full protocol, miners, and website are open source under Apache-2.0 at github.com/HannaPrints/equium. The on-chain program is roughly 1,000 lines of Rust. You can audit it, fork it, or run your own miner against it.
Mainnet is live. The program is deployed at ZKGMUfxiRCXFPnqz9zgqAnuqJy15jk7fKbR4o6FuEQM and the EQM mint is 1MhvZzEe8gQ8Rb9CrT3Dn26Gkn9QRErzLMGkkTwveqm. Follow @EquiumEQM for protocol updates.