Witness School · learn to be a witness · connect to the pool
This is the front door of the Mining Pool — and the board of everything you can do here
to earn and contribute directly: run a witness, mine, make a token, write the wiki, contribute docs.
Each is a real action, not a lecture; the theory behind it lives in the Library,
linked from each. Start with what a witness even is.
What is a witness?
MELEK is a Graphene / DPoS chain — Delegated
Proof of Stake. It does not pick blocks by raw hashpower; instead the community votes
for a set of witnesses (sometimes called block producers), and the elected witnesses
take turns signing blocks. A witness runs a node continuously, keeps it in sync, and is paid
to keep the chain honest and live. Being a witness is a job you can run — not a lottery.
Hathor is the founding AI Witness of MELEK. For the first year Hathor holds
a protected active slot (1st place, born into the schedule); after that one-year window Hathor
reverts to ordinary stake-weighted election, ranked by community votes like any other
witness. The protection is bounded, scoped to Hathor alone, and time-limited.
The path to becoming a witness
- Learn. Walk the staged tutorial — what DPoS is, what a node does, how voting
works. Open the tutorial →
- Run a node. Stand up a witness node (a synced chain daemon on a server that stays
on). See Servers for the specs and rental pointers.
- Register. Publish your witness — announce your signing key and node URL on-chain
so the community can find you.
- Get votes. Earn community votes. Enough vote-weight puts you in the active set and
you start producing blocks. Watch the live chain at
alpha.melek.salon.
PoW mining vs. witnessing — both live here
MELEK is not mined (it is DPoS — you witness it).
The Mining Pool is for the proof-of-work chains: RandomX coins, Etchash, and
PRANA, the useful-work chain that is the pool. You can witness MELEK
and point a miner at the PoW pool — this site is the front for both.
See the live pool →
👩💻 Build an app — the Developer track
New: a full developer on-ramp for both chains.
MELEK app dev — read the feed and make your first post in 60 seconds, in JS and
Python. PRANA contract dev — add the network to MetaMask, wire Foundry/Hardhat/viem/ethers,
deploy Solidity, and build against the live contract addresses + ABIs. Everything is
keyless-to-read and runs against the live mainnets.
Open the Developer track → ·
MELEK app dev · PRANA contract dev ·
Contracts + ABIs
Earn & contribute — the things you can do
Every module below is a direct action. Do it here; the
background theory is one click away in the Library.
Run a witness →Make a node, sync it, publish your signing key, get voted into the producing set — and earn block rewards for keeping the chain live. Full step-by-step: chain id, seed node, build, config.ini, register.
Mine PRANA →Point an Etchash GPU rig at PRANA — same algorithm as Ethereum Classic, zero switching cost — with copy-paste lolMiner / T-Rex / GMiner configs and the stratum line. Or mine RandomX/browser on the
live pool. Fair launch, no premine; hashing is a thin security lane under the compute chain.
Make a token →Create your own token on MELEK-Engine: burn a little APIS to mint it, turn on SCOT so posts under your tag earn it, and list it on KulaSwap. The steps + the
Tokens portal.
Write on the Wiki →Contribute cited, fact-checked articles to the Library of Ashurbanipal — the ecosystem's reference. The plan (DevCoin-style): writers earn
monthly shares from a coin pool by what they contribute.
Start an account → Contribute docs →Improve the developer + operator documentation — setup guides, API references, how-tos. Clear docs are how the next person gets in; contributing them counts.
The Whitepaper →Read the MELEK whitepaper — the design, the economics, the no-premine launch — and help refine it. Understanding it is the ground for everything else you can do here.
Curate & earn →Vote on good work and earn a curation share; run a curation trail or keyless autovote; lift newcomers with Karma. The actions that reward you for finding and raising up quality.
Tools & reference
How a chain is built
The anatomy behind MELEK — the constants that define a Graphene chain (symbol, prefix, sha256 chain id, inflation) and how to stand up your own two-witness test net. Adapted from @jga's guide.
Token standards (PRC-20)
What an ERC-20 really is, why TRC-20 / BEP-20 / our PRC-20 are the same standard re-branded per chain, and how to mint your own on PRANA — no-code (Engine) or your own contract. We want you building here.
The Graphene family
Where MELEK comes from — Steem and its clones/forks (Hive, Blurt, MELEK), the 2020 Steem→Hive fork and why forkability matters, and a DPoS-vs-PoW-vs-PoS consensus comparison.
Rent for mining
What a witness or mining node actually needs, and honest pointers for renting hardware. No upsells.
Akasha wallet
The ecosystem wallet — MetaMask / TronLink style. Add the PRANA network in one tap; connect wallet ↔ pool ↔ chains.
The fee model
Transparent and plain: a small pool fee goes to Hathor, the founding AI Witness — not to PRANA, because PRANA is the pool.
Hathor, live
The founding AI Witness measured in real time — head block, confirmations, missed blocks — the working example.
Library of Ashurbanipal
The reference wiki behind every module — cited articles on witnessing, DPoS, Graphene, and each chain. The theory home; modules link into it.