A token you actually mine.
Equium ($EQM) is a fair-launch token on Solana with a 21M hard cap and a halving schedule. Supply is produced through Equihash proof-of-work — point a GPU at it and start mining. No presale, no insider allocation, no team unlocks.
Proof-of-work on Solana.
Mine $EQM with an Equihash 96,5 GPU miner — wgpu shaders run on Metal, Vulkan, or DX12, no CUDA, no driver install. The protocol is memory-bound, so it stays ASIC-resistant: anyone with a GPU mines on a level playing field with anyone else.
Generate
Your machine hashes random nonces against the current network challenge. Each nonce is an independent attempt at the puzzle.
Solve
When a nonce produces a hash that falls under the difficulty target, you have an Equihash solution. The puzzle is bound to your wallet address, so the solution cannot be front-run.
Earn
Submit the solution as a Solana transaction. The on-chain program verifies it and transfers 25 EQM to your wallet. Rounds close roughly every minute.
Retargets every hour.
Every 60 blocks the protocol compares elapsed time to the 60-minute target and adjusts the difficulty within a [0.5x, 2x] clamp. The convention follows Bitcoin's retarget, with tighter damping suited to the shorter window.
Block reward halves every ~8.6 months.
The reward starts at 25 EQM per block and halves at fixed intervals: 12.5, 6.25, and so on. The emission curve mirrors Bitcoin, mapped to roughly one-minute blocks, so 99% of supply is produced within the first decade.
Your GPU is the rig.
The reference GPU miner is open source and cross-platform via wgpu — Metal on macOS, Vulkan on Linux/Windows, DX12 on Windows. No CUDA, no driver install. Plug in any modern GPU and the same WGSL shaders run on it. CPU fallback ships too.
Fixed supply. No insider allocation.
The 21,000,000 total supply is split into a 10% premine reserved for DEX liquidity and a 90% pool produced through mining. Mint authority is revoked at launch, so the cap is structural and enforced at the SPL Token level.
Same curve as Bitcoin, ~8.6 months between halvings at 1-min blocks.
Cap enforced on-chain.
Mint authority is revoked at launch, so no future inflation is possible. This is enforced at the SPL Token program level, not by Equium's own program logic.
No team allocation.
The 10% premine is reserved for DEX liquidity and operational costs. There are no founder tokens and no team vesting schedule.
Empty rounds reduce float.
If a round closes without a winning solution, the unminted reward remains in the program vault permanently. The protocol does not issue IOUs against future blocks.
Common questions.
Maybe, maybe not. Equium is an experiment in fair-launch distribution rather than a yield product. The protocol issues 25 EQM per block to whoever submits the first valid solution, but the market value of those tokens is determined by demand on the open market and is not guaranteed.
A modern GPU is the fast path — the open-source miner targets Metal, Vulkan, and DX12 via wgpu, so anything from a recent laptop dGPU to a workstation card works. No CUDA, no driver install. CPU mining still earns blocks too; the protocol is memory-bound, not compute-bound, so commodity hardware stays competitive.
No. Each Equihash solution is bound to the wallet address that submits it, because the puzzle input includes the miner's pubkey. Replaying a captured solution from a different wallet produces a different puzzle and fails on-chain verification.
Transaction costs and finality. A mine transaction costs a fraction of a cent, which keeps the economics viable even at the lowest block rewards. Equivalent protocols on higher-fee chains would cost more in gas than the reward is worth. Sub-second block finality also means winners are confirmed quickly.
Yes. Mint authority is revoked at the SPL Token level before the public launch. After that, no additional EQM can ever be created by anyone — the cap is enforced by the runtime, not by promises in protocol code.
The full protocol, miners, and website are open source under Apache-2.0 at github.com/HannaPrints/equium. The on-chain program is roughly 1,000 lines of Rust. You can audit it, fork it, or run your own miner against it.
Mainnet is live. The program is deployed at ZKGMUfxiRCXFPnqz9zgqAnuqJy15jk7fKbR4o6FuEQM and the EQM mint is 1MhvZzEe8gQ8Rb9CrT3Dn26Gkn9QRErzLMGkkTwveqm. Follow @EquiumEQM for protocol updates.