Getting a MinerLink to this section

TL;DRLink to this section

Minting creates a Level 1 Miner whose mining power activates later.
Receiving an existing Miner keeps its power, unclaimed rewards, and cooldown; it doesn't restart activation.
The collection allows up to 9,999 NFTs, including a reserve and unsold allocation for a designated recipient.

Mint a new Miner or receive an existing one?Link to this section

Minting creates a new NFT and its reward record in one transaction. You receive a Level 1 Miner, but its mining power won't earn until its scheduled activation has been processed. Minting also starts its merge cooldown, measured in completed Squeek blocks rather than time.

Buying or receiving an existing Miner is different. You take over its current level, active power, unclaimed rewards, any pending power change, and remaining cooldown. An already active Miner doesn't need to activate again just because it has a new owner. Read Ownership and transfers before relying on a displayed reward balance or merge eligibility.

Before you mintLink to this section

Check current mint availability before signing a transaction. Minting depends on the sale phase and remaining allocation.

Both allowlist and public buyer prices are zero, but you still pay Ethereum network fees. Buyer minting is limited to 1–10 NFTs per transaction and 50 in total per address across both phases. A transaction must also meet the current phase, remaining allocation, payment, and any allowlist-proof requirements.

Minting can be paused even while ordinary NFT transfers remain available. The collection starts with minting paused; the Miner NFT reference describes who can open it and the exact sale controls.

Who receives the allocation?Link to this section

The lifetime limit is 9,999 NFTs: 8,888 in the buyer/public allocation and 1,111 reserved for a fixed economic recipient. That recipient can also close the public sale and take the unsold public allocation, then mint it in batches. Closing the sale ends further buyer minting.

Reserve and unsold-allocation Miners are the same kind of NFT as buyer-minted Miners. They start at Level 1 and follow the same activation and reward rules. This matters to every owner: a recipient holding many of them can have a large share of active power, leaving a smaller share for other Miners. There isn't a separate reward pool reserved for buyers.

Merging reduces the number of existing NFTs, but never reopens minting capacity. Burned IDs aren't reissued, and neither allocation can be reused. Exact ID ranges, batch limits, and sale controls are in the Miner NFT reference.

How it worksLink to this section

A successful mint creates both the NFT and its mining reward record. If registration fails, or a receiving smart contract can't accept the NFT, the whole mint is undone. A failed transaction can still cost a network fee. The Miner NFT reference explains the exact registration and receiver-call order.

Minting doesn't create SQK or process a reward backlog. Levels and mining power explains when a new Miner's power can start earning and why reaching a scheduled round isn't enough on its own.

Records verified work and tracks settled rounds and Squeek blocks on Ethereum. Calculates rewards from settled work, holds funded SQK, and pays eligible NFT owners. The Miner ERC-721 contract. Tracks NFT ownership and coordinates minting and merges with Mining. Applies Core or Mining upgrades authorized by its governing Timelock. Generates Miner NFT artwork from fixed onchain visual data. Queues governance operations and enforces a delay before they can be executed. The SQK ERC-20 contract. Enforces the lifetime supply cap; only Mining can mint SQK. Checks that visual data conforms to the required DotGrid format. When new mining power starts earning. Minting and merging schedule it for a later round, and a checkpoint must process the change. A reward update that processes settled work and scheduled mining-power changes. It can make rewards available but doesn't pay them to an owner's wallet. The Miner NFT permanently burned in a merge. Its unclaimed rewards move to the survivor, but its image is not combined or kept. SQK issued under the mining reward rules. You can direct a share of your Miner's rewards to fund SqueekFi projects. The physical mining device that records accepted wheel-magnet passages as work. It is separate from the virtual Miner NFTs. Squeekchain's record of accepted wheel-magnet passages. It doesn't prove animal identity and isn't how Ethereum reaches consensus. Combining two eligible same-level Miners you own into one higher-level Miner. One NFT is permanently burned; the survivor keeps both Miners' unclaimed rewards. The completed Squeek blocks a Miner must wait through before merging. It measures completed work, not elapsed time or Ethereum blocks; transfers don't reset it. The power used to calculate a Miner's share of rewards when eligible and active. A larger share of total power can mean a larger share of rewards. A ten-minute period used to group measured work. The device saves a completed round's work total when measurement remained uninterrupted. The transferable token used for mining rewards. It has a lifetime supply cap and is separate from the Miner NFT and the device's work count. A completed amount of settled work. Enough recorded work completes one Squeek block; it is not an Ethereum block. Squeek Miner NFTs earn SQK linked to recorded wheel activity. Owners can direct a share of those rewards to fund SqueekFi projects. Squeekchain's ecosystem for hamster-powered onchain finance. Miner owners can choose to fund projects with a share of their SQK rewards. The Miner NFT you keep in a merge. It gains a level, keeps its ID and image, and receives both Miners' unclaimed rewards. A Miner's recorded reward balance that hasn't been paid to a wallet. It stays with the NFT when ownership changes. One wheel-magnet passage that met the device's counting rules and was saved. It records work, not an amount of SQK.