10 KiB
Mining income per tier on igneum-testnet-1
Generated by tools/launch/income-tiers.mjs from tools/launch/income-tiers.json (mission item 10, the consequences rule). Do not edit by hand: node tools/launch/income-tiers.mjs rewrites it and --check fails CI when the two disagree. Every rate and watt figure is a measurement with its source in the first table; nothing is estimated. Testnet coins have no value and the figures below say nothing about any price: the dollar columns are electricity, a cost the reader computes from a measured watt figure and a tariff they choose.
The schedule the figures use
EmissionSchedule::TESTNET_1 (the testnet genesis, decided 7 October 2026): 100 IGN a block at one block a second, a 90-day ramp from 10 percent, a monthly glide with a two-year half-life (each month pays 2^(-1/24) of the month before), then 1 percent of supply a year from about year 11.4. Of each block, 80 percent goes to the miner who found it and 20 percent to the proving pool. A miner whose key signs its checkpoints keeps the full 80 percent; an unsigned key gives a tenth of it to the proving pool.
| Moment | IGN a block to the miner | Of the launch figure |
|---|---|---|
| day 1 | 8.00 | 10.0% |
| day 30 | 32.00 | 40.0% |
| day 90 (ramp over) | 75.51 | 94.4% |
| month 12 | 58.23 | 72.8% |
| year 2 | 41.17 | 51.5% |
A solo card's expected income is its share of network hash times 86,400 blocks a day times the figure above. The tables use day 90, when the ramp is over. Before that, multiply by the ramp row; after that, by the glide row. A pool user gets the same expected amount minus the pool's fee (pool-0: 1 percent) with the variance taken out; the reference pool holds no balance and pays from the coinbase split.
The cards, measured
6 October 2026, rented single-card Linux boxes (docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, bench log 'Prover tiers on real cards: the rented fleet, 6 October 2026'): the 0.3.12 miner on the ten-field override, the miner alone on the card, nvidia-smi power at the same second. The RX 9070 XT row is the telemetry run of 5 October 2026 on a Windows rig (bench log 'Power, heat, fans and clocks, measured'); the Apple row is the Metal bench of 4 October 2026 (site/miner-bench.json, class v4). The class v4 rates on the live devnet run lower than the ten-field rates on the same card (RTX 5090: 124.2 MH/s class v4 against 98.5 on the rented box under a different driver and container, docs/bench-log.md); the table is re-generated at the testnet cut from that class.
| Tier | Card | MH/s | W | MH/W | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB | 19.07 | 72.6 | 0.263 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB row |
| 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 | 17.07 | owed | owed | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 4060 row (the sampler read 0.0 W on that host: power OWED) |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 3060 | 23.78 | 103.7 | 0.229 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 3060 row |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | 24.99 | 91.1 | 0.274 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 4070 row |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 5070 | 41.89 | 137.0 | 0.306 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 5070 row |
| 16 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 17.58 | 72.3 | 0.243 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB row |
| 16 GB | AMD RX 9070 XT | 18.60 | 199.0 | 0.093 | docs/bench-log.md, 'Power, heat, fans and clocks, measured' (5 October 2026): 18.6 to 19.2 MH/s, 199 W read by the ADLX helper at 100 percent busy |
| 24 GB | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | 37.79 | 228.8 | 0.165 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 3090 row |
| 24 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | 52.25 | 183.1 | 0.285 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 4090 row |
| 32 GB | NVIDIA RTX 5090 | 98.48 | 258.2 | 0.381 | docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md, RTX 5090 row (the rented box; 124.2 MH/s class v4 on a desktop, site/miner-bench.json) |
| Apple | Apple M5 Max (40 GPU cores) | 26.70 | owed | owed | site/miner-bench.json, Apple M5 Max class v4 row, 4 October 2026 (no power reading: OWED) |
IGN a day per card, solo, after the ramp (day 90)
Three network sizes, because income is a share of the network and nobody knows the network before it exists. 1 GH/s, 10 GH/s, 100 GH/s are reference sizes, not forecasts. The live network's estimate is on /live; divide by it.
| Tier | Card | at 1 GH/s | at 10 GH/s | at 100 GH/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB | 124,414 | 12,441 | 1,244.1 |
| 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 | 111,366 | 11,137 | 1,113.7 |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 3060 | 155,142 | 15,514 | 1,551.4 |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | 163,036 | 16,304 | 1,630.4 |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 5070 | 273,293 | 27,329 | 2,732.9 |
| 16 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 114,693 | 11,469 | 1,146.9 |
| 16 GB | AMD RX 9070 XT | 121,348 | 12,135 | 1,213.5 |
| 24 GB | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | 246,544 | 24,654 | 2,465.4 |
| 24 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | 340,882 | 34,088 | 3,408.8 |
| 32 GB | NVIDIA RTX 5090 | 642,489 | 64,249 | 6,424.9 |
| Apple | Apple M5 Max (40 GPU cores) | 174,192 | 17,419 | 1,741.9 |
| Rig | 6 x NVIDIA RTX 4070 | 978,217 | 97,822 | 9,782.2 |
Electricity a day, and the electricity cost of one mined IGN
Electricity a day = measured watts x 24 h x the tariff. The cost of one IGN divides that by the day-90 figure at 10 GH/s; at another network size it scales with the network (ten times the network, ten times the cost per coin). The three tariffs: USD 0.05 a kWh is cheap industrial power, USD 0.10 is a US retail rate, USD 0.25 is a UK retail rate at today's level (each approximate; tariffs move, the watt figures do not).
| Tier | Card | USD/day at 0.05/kWh | USD/day at 0.1/kWh | USD/day at 0.25/kWh | USD per IGN at 0.05/kWh | USD per IGN at 0.1/kWh | USD per IGN at 0.25/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB | 0.087 | 0.174 | 0.436 | 0.000007 | 0.000014 | 0.000035 |
| 8 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 | owed | owed | owed | owed | owed | owed |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 3060 | 0.124 | 0.249 | 0.622 | 0.00000802 | 0.000016 | 0.0000401 |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4070 | 0.109 | 0.219 | 0.547 | 0.00000671 | 0.0000134 | 0.0000335 |
| 12 GB | NVIDIA RTX 5070 | 0.164 | 0.329 | 0.822 | 0.00000602 | 0.000012 | 0.0000301 |
| 16 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 0.087 | 0.174 | 0.434 | 0.00000756 | 0.0000151 | 0.0000378 |
| 16 GB | AMD RX 9070 XT | 0.239 | 0.478 | 1.19 | 0.0000197 | 0.0000394 | 0.0000984 |
| 24 GB | NVIDIA RTX 3090 | 0.275 | 0.549 | 1.37 | 0.0000111 | 0.0000223 | 0.0000557 |
| 24 GB | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | 0.220 | 0.439 | 1.10 | 0.00000645 | 0.0000129 | 0.0000322 |
| 32 GB | NVIDIA RTX 5090 | 0.310 | 0.620 | 1.55 | 0.00000482 | 0.00000964 | 0.0000241 |
| Apple | Apple M5 Max (40 GPU cores) | owed | owed | owed | owed | owed | owed |
| Rig | 6 x NVIDIA RTX 4070 (a six-card rig of the 12 GB card, the rig's own power is six times the card's plus the host (the host is not measured here)) | 0.656 | 1.31 | 3.28 | 0.00000671 | 0.0000134 | 0.0000335 |
What it means per tier, and what is being done
- One 8 GB card. NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB: 19.1 MH/s at 73 W, 12,441 IGN a day at 10 GH/s after the ramp, electricity 0.174 a day at USD 0.10 a kWh. Mines; proves only core-only shards (docs/analysis/prover-tiers-real-cards.md). The record says this tier is first under power in every exit (docs/analysis/mission/past.md section 3): the glide never halves it overnight, and the card games when the income goes. Being done: the Cards screen shows the expected MH/s, W and blocks a day before the first share (mission item 6).
- One 12 GB card. NVIDIA RTX 5070: 41.9 MH/s at 137 W, 27,329 IGN a day at 10 GH/s after the ramp, electricity 0.329 a day at USD 0.10 a kWh. Mines and proves beside the miner on the patched server. Being done: the same Cards line; the proving tier sentence names the shard size the card takes.
- One 16 GB card. NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB: 17.6 MH/s at 72 W, 11,469 IGN a day at 10 GH/s after the ramp, electricity 0.174 a day at USD 0.10 a kWh. Mines and proves; the AMD row is the measured 9070 XT, 199 W for 18.6 MH/s, so per watt it is about a fifth of the NVIDIA cards of its tier and the electricity cost per coin is the highest in the table. Being done: the AMD read-width experiment (docs/plans/read-width.md); until it lands the AMD tier is told its per-watt figure before it buys.
- One 24 or 32 GB card. NVIDIA RTX 5090: 98.5 MH/s at 258 W, 64,249 IGN a day at 10 GH/s after the ramp, electricity 0.620 a day at USD 0.10 a kWh. The last GPU standing in every exit on record, and the only tier that proves the full shard beside the miner. Being done: the proving pool is the second income for this tier and the Earnings screen shows shards and IGN beside blocks.
- A rig. 6 x NVIDIA RTX 4070: cards times the card figure; the host's own draw is not measured and is owed. Rigs followed income across chains inside days on every chain in the record; Igneum expects no loyalty and pays staying keys a vote (30 days of blocks).
- A pool user. The same expected IGN minus the pool's fee, variance removed; pool-0 holds no balance and the member's own key is in every block it finds, so a pool's vote is the member's weight. Being done: the pool finished (mission item 11).
- Windows, Linux, macOS. The rates above are Linux containers (NVIDIA) and Windows (AMD); the Mac row is Metal on Apple silicon with no power reading. The same card on another operating system is within the driver's margin, not measured here: owed per platform at the testnet cut.
Owed
- Intel discrete (Arc): no measurement; the tier is listed with no number until one exists
- RTX 4060 and Apple M5 Max wall power: the rows carry the rate and no electricity column
- every row at class v4 on the testnet cut: the rates above are the ten-field class of 6 October 2026 on rented boxes
- a rig host's own draw: a rig row is cards times the card figure, host excluded
Check
node tools/launch/income-tiers.mjs --check (in tools/ci/pre-push.sh): the file equals the generator's output. node --test tools/launch/income-tiers.test.mjs: the schedule arithmetic against the fork's constants (100 MH/s on 100 GH/s after the ramp = 6,912 IGN a day, the figure in docs/analysis/horizon-2026-10.md; day 1 pays 10 percent; one month step pays 97.153 percent of the one before).