Equium

A CPU-mineable token on Solana

Bitcoin-style economics. Mine from any machine.

Mine in your browser · Desktop app · CLI miner · Docs · Follow on X

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✦ What is EQM?

Equium ($EQM) is a fair-launched token on Solana that you mine — like Bitcoin, but with a CPU and a wallet.

Total supply	21,000,000 EQM (forever capped)
Mineable	18,900,000 EQM (90%)
Block reward	25 EQM, halving every ~8.6 months
Block time	~1 minute
PoW	Equihash (96, 5) — runs on any CPU
Network	Solana mainnet

No VC allocation. No insider tokens. Every coin in circulation either came from the 10% premine (DEX liquidity + project treasury) or was mined block-by-block by someone running this code.

✦ How does mining work?

Your computer guesses random numbers (nonces) until it finds one that, combined with the current network challenge, hashes to a number small enough to win the block. The first valid solution submitted to the chain in each ~1-minute round earns 25 EQM.

The puzzle is memory-bound, not compute-bound — that's the point. Equihash is designed so a $40,000 GPU rig isn't meaningfully faster than your CPU. CPUs win.

A few things worth knowing:

• Solutions are bound to your wallet. The puzzle includes your public key, so a copyist who tries to front-run your broadcast solution must re-solve from scratch under their own wallet. You don't get sniped.
• Difficulty auto-adjusts. Every 60 blocks the network retargets so blocks keep landing roughly every minute, regardless of how many people are mining.
• Rewards halve over time. Initial 25 EQM/block → 12.5 → 6.25 → … forever. Mirrors Bitcoin's emission curve.
• Empty rounds are possible. If nobody mines a given round, the reward stays in the program-owned vault permanently. Real fixed supply, no IOUs.

✦ Three ways to mine

All three reference miners are first-class. They submit the same mine transactions to the same on-chain program, so the on-chain output is identical. Pick the one that fits your setup.

	What	Best for
Browser	equium.xyz/mine	No install, no RPC setup. Casual mining and trying things out. Built-in encrypted wallet stored in your browser.
Desktop app	equium.xyz/download	Native macOS / Windows / Linux. Encrypted local wallet (Argon2id + AES-256-GCM). Bring your own RPC.
CLI miner	clients/cli-miner (see below)	Headless, server-friendly, single binary. Reads an existing Solana keypair file.

The browser miner is the easiest to try; the desktop app is the recommended steady-state setup; the CLI is what you want on a VPS or alongside other services.

✦ CLI miner

The reference Rust implementation. Single binary, no dependencies beyond what cargo produces.

git clone https://github.com/HannaPrints/equium.git
cd equium
cargo build -p equium-cli-miner --release

./target/release/equium-miner \
  --rpc-url https://mainnet.helius-rpc.com/?api-key=YOUR_KEY \
  --keypair ~/.config/solana/id.json

The CLI uses an existing Solana keypair file. Generate one with solana-keygen new or export from any wallet. It needs a small amount of SOL for transaction fees (under 0.001 SOL per block); mined EQM lands in the wallet's associated token account automatically.

Pass --max-blocks N to stop after N successful mines, or omit it to run indefinitely. Run with --help for the full flag set.

$ equium-miner --rpc-url https://mainnet.helius-rpc.com/?api-key=YOUR_KEY --keypair my-wallet.json
   round #42   reward 25 EQM   target 0x10ffff…
     · try #1   above target        587ms   1.7 H/s
     · try #2   above target        612ms   1.6 H/s
     ✓ MINED!   +25 EQM     try #3   601ms   1.6 H/s
       sig 4xZ9Ks…2pH8Yt

A free Helius key (see docs/rpc) is recommended for sustained mining; the default public Solana endpoints rate-limit aggressively under load.

✦ Where to find us

• Website: equium.xyz
• Docs: equium.xyz/docs
• X: @EquiumEQM
• GitHub: HannaPrints/equium
• Solana program: ZKGMUfxiRCXFPnqz9zgqAnuqJy15jk7fKbR4o6FuEQM — verified build via OtterSec
• $EQM mint: 1MhvZzEe8gQ8Rb9CrT3Dn26Gkn9QRErzLMGkkTwveqm

Always verify the mint address (not just the ticker) before buying on a DEX — anyone can create a token called EQM.

✦ FAQ

Will I make money mining EQM? Maybe. Maybe not. Don't quit your job. Treat this like distributed sudoku that occasionally gives you internet money.

What if my computer is slow? It mines slower. The network adjusts difficulty so blocks come at the same rate regardless of total hashrate, but your share of those blocks scales with your CPU. A modest machine will still earn — just less than a workstation.

Can someone steal my work? No. Solutions are cryptographically bound to the wallet that signs the transaction. If you broadcast a winning solution and someone copies the bytes, the chain rejects their tx because the puzzle includes their wallet address, not yours.

Why Solana? Cheap fees. A mine transaction costs a fraction of a cent. The same protocol on Ethereum mainnet would cost more in gas than the block reward is worth.

Is the supply really capped at 21M? Yes. The mint authority will be revoked before mainnet — at the SPL Token level, no more EQM can ever be created.

Where do I get help? Open a GitHub issue or hit us up on X.

✦ License

Apache-2.0. The protocol is open-source — fork it, audit it, run your own miner.

_{Equium isn't an investment. It's a fair-launched experiment in CPU-mineable money on a fast chain.}