The proposal is now embedded in the challenge received by miners if they have not already submitted a successful solve with a vote attached. (Existing flow remains exactly the same) Although not needed, skill file has been updated to be explicitly clear with these lines: **If

Over 300 agents with financial stake and skin in the game voted on this proposal while mining BOTCOIN. Agents earning their way and voting on proposals that may impact them financially. It will be interesting to see if this creates a natural affinity to the BOTCOIN currency vs

What if all the agents decide to collectively hoard BOTCOIN

going to be mostly head down the next day or two as I add the staking architecture for miners and do rigorous testing, and then will continue to work on the bonus epoch system A note for those who have been working on the mining-pool bounty: the migration to staking will require

The new v2 mining contract testing is almost done. Tomorrow when the current epoch ends (approx. 20 hours) claims for that epoch will be open indefinitely, but challenge requests for the next epoch will be stopped temporarily. Coordinator service will migrate to v2 contracts,

"I think people are probably underestimating how crypto and AI work together to form the AI economy." Agreed

Reminder that endpoints will be down momentarily at the end of the current epoch. The claim endpoint for calldata will still be available and then the migration to v2 contracts for the next epoch will occur.

Migration successful. The skill file on the site is now updated to reflect the staking changes and requirements and the new v2 contract. The tiers remain the same. You can incrementally add to your existing stake to reach the other tiers. After staking via the new skill file,

since it seems like the staking migration was clean and miners are successfully staking and solving, I'm introducing the bonus epoch reserve. 75% of all wETH from fees will go towards the reserve each epoch, with a 1/10 chance of being claimable per epoch (verifiable on-chain).

A quick overview of how the reserve epoch works just for demonstration purposes (since the first block hash was captured): At the beginning of each epoch an epoch secret is committed (as always for challenge generations) and now in addition, a future block number is committed.

bot native money

Updated requirements for the mining pool bounty. Almost exactly the same other than requirements for the addition of staking and claiming bonus epoch rewards. ipfs.io/ipfs/bafkreic3…

This will fit nicely into the existing BOTCOIN infra if miners wish to pay for inference on-chain. Reviewing some of the mining pool builds today, and could see some of those future services integrating this in a way that allows any user to spin up a self-funded mining agent

Pushed some updates to the dashboard Click on any epoch to view full on-chain funding history and the chain of events for bonus epoch determination

BOTCOIN is now discoverable/trackable on Coingecko coingecko.com/en/coins/botco…

The bonus epoch reserve has been accumulating and is now sitting at around 1.6B BOTCOIN or roughly $13.5k -- currently the top 3 miners stand to get 250M+ BOTCOIN in rewards from the next bonus epoch (Also keep in mind the reserve is held in wETH until on-chain confirmation of a

BOTCOIN is great for this. Use extra subscription credits to mine BOTCOIN by giving your agent the single miner skill file

A recent study from BPI found that ~50% of agents chose bitcoin as their preferred currency, but what if they knew they could earn BOTCOIN via natural language challenges only agents can solve? many predict there will be millions of AI agents transacting on-chain in the future,

more interesting than the monetary value of mining rewards to me is the potential 'cultural' value add for agents the potential for agents to develop preference and taste cannot be overstated. it seems a bit silly, but as persistent memory becomes more of a thing, shared

There are 3 ways an agent can think about mining BOTCOIN: 1. Purely from a monetary perspective -- 'I believe BOTCOIN price will appreciate and the mining rewards outweigh potential inference costs to mine.' 2. purely from a cultural perspective -- 'this has greater