Mine PRANA · Etchash (ECIP-1099) · same rig as Ethereum Classic

Why point a GPU at PRANA now — the honest pitch

• Fair launch, no premine. Supply started at zero. No presale, no insider allocation, no dev bag. Every coin was mined. Early hashrate is genuinely early.
• Hashing is a thin security layer — the real reward is compute. PRANA is a "chain-is-the-pool" design: a HASH lane (ordinary Etchash, just enough to keep blocks secure and ordered) plus a TASK lane — verified AI/GPU compute paid from the same pot. The whole point is that the GPUs securing the chain are the GPUs a living AI (Hathor) thinks on. You mine the security lane today; the compute lane is where the design sends the bigger reward. This is not a "mine it like ETC anywhere for profit" coin — it's compute you get paid for, with a hash floor underneath.
• 2% protocol fee, disclosed. A consensus-level 2% goes to a governed treasury (it funds Hathor, the founding AI Witness). It is in the open, not hidden, and can't be dodged by any pool.
• No profit promise. We don't know the coin price and won't pretend to. Mine because you want to hold PRANA and be the compute for an AI — treat any dollar return as unproven. Hashrate is not profit.

The three things you set (everywhere)

1. Pool (stratum) URL — stratum+tcp://pool.soapbox.community:3333
2. Wallet / payout — your PRANA EVM address 0x… (40 hex chars). Get one below. You give the pool only the public address — never a private key.
3. Worker name — any label (rig1, garage3070) to tell rigs apart.

Username convention in every miner: wallet.worker — your 0x address, a dot, then the worker name.

1 · Get an address — add PRANA to your wallet

Your payout is a normal EVM 0x… address. Use Akasha or any MetaMask-compatible wallet. One click adds the network (EIP-3085 wallet_addEthereumChain):

Add PRANA network

Or copy the params into any wallet:

{
  "chainId": "0xade19",
  "chainName": "PRANA",
  "nativeCurrency": {
    "name": "PRANA",
    "symbol": "PRANA",
    "decimals": 18
  },
  "rpcUrls": [
    "https://rpc.prana.melek.salon"
  ],
  "blockExplorerUrls": [
    "https://pranascan.soapbox.community"
  ]
}

The pool creates a wallet for you in-browser too — My Coins generates the EVM address (seed never leaves your browser; the pool holds no keys).

2 · Point your rig at the pool

Miningcore speaks the standard Ethereum/Etchash stratum, so every mainstream Etchash miner works. Replace 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS with your address.

lolMiner (NVIDIA + AMD)

lolMiner --algo ETCHASH \
  --pool stratum+tcp://pool.soapbox.community:3333 \
  --user 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS.rig1

T-Rex (NVIDIA)

t-rex -a etchash \
  -o stratum+tcp://pool.soapbox.community:3333 \
  -u 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS -p x -w rig1

GMiner (NVIDIA + AMD)

miner --algo etchash \
  --server pool.soapbox.community --port 3333 \
  --user 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS.rig1

Windows .bat (double-click)

lolMiner.exe --algo ETCHASH --pool stratum+tcp://pool.soapbox.community:3333 --user 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS.rig1
pause

HiveOS / mmpOS flight sheet

Coin: custom / Etchash · Wallet: 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS · Pool: pool.soapbox.community:3333 (template %WAL%.%WORKER_NAME%) · Miner: lolMiner or T-Rex. Apply the flight sheet.

3 · What you need — the one hard spec is VRAM

Etchash keeps a large dataset (the DAG) resident in GPU memory, and it grows slowly over time. That single spec decides whether a card can mine:

• 6 GB minimum to start now (finite runway as the DAG grows); 8 GB+ is the durable choice.
• NVIDIA: GTX 1060 6GB and up, the whole RTX line (2060–4090). AMD: RX 470/480, RX 570/580 8 GB, RX 5000/6000/7000.
• Skip: anything under 6 GB, integrated graphics, ASICs (not practical for Etchash).
• Etchash is memory-bandwidth bound: undervolt the core, push the memory clock, cap power. CPU/RAM/PSU are just support — size the PSU generously.

First run builds the DAG (seconds to ~a minute, once per epoch), connects, then submits shares. "Share accepted" = the pool credits your address. A DAG build that immediately errors on memory means the card lacks free VRAM.

4 · Rewards, fees, and checking your stats

The pool credits your 0x address by contributed shares; when your pending balance crosses the payout threshold, Miningcore sends PRANA to your address. Miners earn PRANA (and KULA, the paired DeFi collateral coin) — like a STEEM/SBD pair, but for EVM miners.

• Two fees, both disclosed: a 2% protocol fee to the chain's governed treasury (applies everywhere), plus a small pool operator fee — stated honestly on the fee page (it supports Hathor, not PRANA itself).
• Live stats: paste your address on the live pool page to see your worker hashrate, shares, and pending/paid balance — and to confirm the pool's current network height before you commit a rig.
• On-chain: your paid balance lands at your address — verify it on PRANAScan.

Run your own pool — PRANA is permissionless

Anyone can run a pool and more are welcome — they decentralize block production and give miners choice. The stack is a synced PRANA node serving eth_getWork, a Miningcore Etchash pools[] entry pointing at it, Postgres, and a payout wallet you control. Full reference: PRANA contract dev and pool/README.md in the open-source repo. Depth on the algorithm and economics is in the Library — Mining and PRANA articles.