You already own the card. Igneum gives it a job worth doing: mine the block, prove it, watch it lock. One click installs the node, the miner and the prover.
pending vote keys mined a block in the last ten minutes; a card runs several.
shards proven and paid on the chain so far, pending of them in the last ten minutes.
Built for graphics cards. In our public model the strongest chip reaches 5x to 9x per joule against an RTX 5090 today; class v4, now on the vote, brings that to 2.1x to 3.9x, and class v5 makes the dataset the chain’s own state, so a chip that stores it or recomputes it is wrong on every item. The model and every measurement are public.
One node is read every 2 s. The chip figures are a cost model, not a measurement.
From the first install to a block you can point at and say: mine.
Every hour the chain draws a new mining program and your card compiles it. A chip wired for one program is out of date before it ships. The limits are measured and published, not promised.
How mining worksWatch your block land. Open its proof shards. Follow a checkpoint from pending to locked. Each state is its own word and none of them is guessed from a block’s age.
Follow a blockPick your platform, run the installer, press Start. Igneum Ember sets up the node, the miner and the prover, makes your wallet, and tunes each card for the most hashes per watt.
Meet EmberEvery block pays the card that found it and the cards that prove it. The protocol carves out nothing for a team, a foundation or a fund. No premine, no stake.
A desktop wallet that checks finality itself. Block rewards and proving payouts in one history.
The walletMeasured hash rates per card, with the watts, the date and the log entry behind each number.
The bench tableMining, proving, finality, the economics and the open questions, in one readable paper.
Read the litepaperDevnet. Coins have no value and the chain may be reset.
Public testnet: not yet open; the devnet build is here for people who want to look. The public testnet is weeks away: three seed nodes and the public RPC are up, and it opens when the go checklist closes.
Read more about the miner. The protocol carries no fee. The one payment to the project is the Ember software’s optional 1% dev fee, like other GPU miners, off with one flag. Download only from this domain. Nobody from Igneum will ask for your seed. Questions: the Discord.
Download Ember, watch the devnet, and tell us what breaks. The people on the Discord run cards like yours.
Experimental software. No promise of earnings.
Every criticism, answered or conceded, and what Igneum does not claim.
The ledger