Claiming rewardsLink to this section

TL;DRLink to this section

A claim moves already-funded SQK to you as the current owner of the selected Miners.
It doesn't create rewards, process pending work, or require staking or spending approvals.
You pay a network fee, including when a successful claim pays zero; failed transactions can also cost fees.

What does a claim do?Link to this section

Claiming moves ready SQK from the shared reward contract to your wallet. You keep your Miners, and their levels, images, and mining power don't change. The claimed SQK is then separate from the NFTs and won't move with them if you transfer them later.

A claim pays rewards that have already been funded, not future activity or work waiting to be processed. If a balance hasn't caught up with settled work, Checkpoints and pending rewards explains the separate processing step. You don't have to checkpoint before claiming what's already ready.

Before you claimLink to this section

You must be the current owner of every selected NFT, and each NFT must still exist. A burned merge donor can't be selected. Marketplace or operator approval doesn't let another account claim for you; if a contract wallet owns the NFTs, it must make the call itself.

You don't need an NFT approval, SQK spending approval, or staking deposit. You do need to pay the network transaction fee. Review the ready amount alongside that fee, and check that you're using the intended application and contracts before signing.

Unclaimed rewards follow the NFT when it transfers. If you transfer a Miner first, its new owner can claim the rewards you left with it, including rewards earned while you owned it.

Can you claim for several Miners together?Link to this section

Yes. One transaction can claim for up to 32 Miners you currently own; larger holdings need separate batches. The contract adds their unclaimed rewards before rounding the payment to SQK's smallest transferable unit, which is much smaller than a whole SQK.

Any smaller fraction is kept on the lowest selected token ID. Combining Miners in one claim can make a fraction payable sooner than claiming them separately, but a total too small to transfer still pays zero. That zero-payout claim can succeed and still cost a network fee. See Supply limits and rounding for what stays with the NFT and the Mining reference for exact batch ordering requirements.

Is the displayed amount guaranteed?Link to this section

No. An amount shown before submission is a quote, not a payment. New funding, another claim, a merge, or a transfer before your transaction completes can change what it receives or whether it can succeed.

Pending power doesn't prevent you from claiming existing funded rewards. A pause or outage in the work-recording contract alone doesn't block those claims either, because claiming doesn't read that contract. Current ownership checks and SQK transfers must still work.

If a required check or SQK transfer fails, the entire claim fails without a partial payout or loss of its reward credit. The network fee may still be charged.

How do you know it was paid?Link to this section

A transaction hash or submitted status doesn't confirm a payout. Wait for the transaction to succeed and be confirmed, then check the actual SQK received. A successful zero-payout claim has no token transfer to show.

A portfolio or API display may lag while it waits for confirmations. The owner transaction integration guide gives the exact receipt, event, and balance checks for developers; it also covers how to keep pending transactions separate from confirmed rewards.

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.