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RTX 40/50 miner update - September 6, 2026: Miner 2 improved tested RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and RTX 5070 Ti rates by about 2.44x, and RTX 5090 by 18%, without changing clocks or power limits. See that release for test conditions and limitations. RC5 wallet/node and signed assets are unchanged.

Community pool launch — September 6, 2026

The Common Foundry community pool started Sunday, September 6 at 17:00 UTC / 12:00 noon US Central (CDT).

Launch verification — September 6, 13:04 CDT: Public TLS access, the certificate pin, and actual mining over an Internet connection are verified. The pool has two active workers, 211 total accepted shares, and 6 canonical pool blocks, including a block from the external worker. The external seed confirms the same height and tip. Two rejected shares are recorded as stale. Automatic payouts remain unverified while rewards mature.

View live workers, shares, blocks, and payouts on the public pool dashboard.

Copy the entire pool URL, including the certificate pin:

cmfd+tls://107.214.187.2:19445?pin=a4868a78e9d4d46bbb3c7867bd43bacbb4e8bb0a0ac61e54444b16250d525dc0
  1. Download the Windows/WSL2 or Linux pool miner and extract the whole archive. Follow its checksum and signature verification instructions.
  2. Have your RCNet wallet's public receive address ready. Use the same address consistently; never enter a private key, recovery secret, or wallet password into the pool-address field.
  3. Windows requires WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 and NVIDIA CUDA support; use START-MINER.bat. Linux uses ./start-miner.sh.
  4. Supply your receive address and the complete pool URL. First use downloads and verifies approximately 6.4 GB of model data. Follow the included README for input preparation.

Pool terms: 3% operator fee, automatic one-block PPLNS window, 10 test CMFD minimum payout, and 0.1 CMFD transaction burn per payout transaction. Payouts require mature block rewards and confirmation; they are not immediate after a share.

This is RCNet-1 testing, not mainnet. Test coins have no intended monetary value. The network's virtual-genesis field still displays September 7; the operational community-pool start above is September 6. This notice does not change network parameters or signed release packages.

The preview includes NVIDIA RTX 20/30/40/50-series worker targets. Physical RTX 20/30-series and 8 GB qualification remains pending; consult the preview release for the tested hardware scope. Wallet solo-mining compatibility is separate.

Watch the RCNet explorer for confirmed chain progress. Report setup or mining problems in the testing repository's Issues.

Windows startup fix: If startup reports ProductionV4 input manifests disagree about FORGEMATRIX-V4-FIXED-BANK-0.tree, the packaged input manifest contains a one-character checksum typo. In the extracted production-v4-rcnet-1-inputs.json, find the FORGEMATRIX-V4-FIXED-BANK-0.tree entry and set its sha256 to:

6f55b1ddc9bc15426dbf23a662ab205e2f5396d92c7298c34885a22e34380085

This matches both V4-INPUT-CHUNKS.json and the independently hashed tree artifact. Save the file and rerun START-MINER.bat; keep the integrity checks enabled. This correction applies to the extracted JSON file; the existing signed release assets have not been replaced.

Common Foundry v0.1.0-rc.5 — wallet usability and GPU mining

RCNet-1 release candidate, not mainnet. RCNet coins have no intended monetary value.

  • Send and consolidation default to, and enforce, a minimum transaction burn of
    0.1 CMFD (10,000,000 atoms). Nodes enforce the same minimum for each normal
    spend and channel close; pool payout defaults also match.
  • Backup and restore use native Save As/Open dialogs, including paths containing
    spaces. Existing backups cannot be overwritten, and cancellation does not
    perform a wallet operation.
  • The Mining tab connects solo mining to the persistent ProductionV4 GPU
    replay/proof workers and normal embedded-node consensus verification. Opening
    the tab does not start mining or downloads.
  • The complete runtime package includes optional authenticated mining setup:
    PREPARE-MINING.bat (Windows) or prepare-mining.sh (Linux). Wallet-only setup
    remains about 6.4 GB; solo mining needs about 61 GB of inputs plus scratch space.

Upgrade

All RCNet nodes and pools must upgrade together because the fee rule changes
the consensus fingerprint. Empty RC4 chain directories receive a narrow metadata
upgrade, preserving the wallet key and an original network.meta.rc4 copy.
Existing block histories are not automatically reset or rewritten.

The initial packaged mining workers target NVIDIA RTX 50-series (CUDA SM 12.0).
Windows requires WSL2 Ubuntu-22.04 with CUDA 12.8; Linux requires CUDA 12.8.
Other GPU architectures are not qualified by this package. The community pool
follows the launch schedule above. Stop waits for the current GPU operation
to finish and prevents subsequent work or submissions.

Use the complete runtime archive and its launcher, not a bare executable.
Back up the encrypted wallet before upgrading. Release-manifest signatures
authenticate the download; they are not Windows Authenticode signatures.

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