lode

what is lode

Lode is a launchpad for mineable tokens on Solana. A token here has a fixed supply that is released round by round, and mining is the only way new units reach anyone.

  1. 01

    launch

    Choose the name, ticker and metadata. Supply and mining rules are fixed at launch. No creator or token admin can change them later.

  2. 02

    stake

    Deposit token units into the mine. That deposit is your weight for the round. It stays yours, and you can withdraw it once the round it weighted has settled.

  3. 03

    mine

    Your browser builds a proof each round and submits it. Everyone who submits splits that round's emission in proportion to what they staked, not by who solved it first.

  4. 04

    claim

    Rewards accrue as each round closes. Claim them when you want, without stopping mining.

Mining pays Solana transaction fees every round. Every mine on this site runs on mainnet-beta.

launch

security and status

This program holds a mint authority and, once anyone stakes, other people's tokens. Below is what has actually been demonstrated and what has not, kept apart on purpose.

the ledger

Proven means there is an artifact or a test run behind it today. Unproven means the step has not been taken, not that it failed. Nothing here is described as safe, audited or verified.

check it yourself

The useful checks do not require trusting this site. All three read the cluster directly.

  1. Confirm a token's supply cannot grow

    spl-token display <MINT> --url mainnet-beta

    Mint authority and freeze authority must both read as none. If either is set, the supply is not fixed, whatever any page says.

  2. Confirm the program is what you were told it is

    solana program dump <PROGRAM_ID> out.so --url mainnet-beta && sha256sum out.so

    The release build hashes to 87223745e93c15d917c2fc4270c4003abb0bb146280deea8ad721ff4bba47ecd. The deployed mainnet program reproduces this hash. A different hash means a different program.

  3. Read a token's frozen parameters

    solana account <CONFIG_PDA> --url mainnet-beta

    The config PDA is derived from the seeds lode-config and the mint. Supply, round length, halving interval, difficulty target and creator allocation are all in it, and no instruction writes to any of them after launch.

standing prohibitions

Recorded in the repository as rules for anyone working on it, so they survive a change of contributor rather than living in someone's judgement.

reporting

There is no published security contact yet. Saying so is more useful than publishing an address nobody is committed to monitoring. The program is live on mainnet without a disclosure channel or an external audit; weigh both as part of the risk here. §9.3