Mining.

Mining runs in 60-second rounds on a pentagon board of 25 tiles, followed by a short settling phase. During a round, miners deploy ETH onto any set of tiles: a single tile, a handful, or the whole board.

Deploying

The amount you enter is per tile, not per deploy, so covering all 25 at 0.01 ETH costs 0.25 ETH. The contract sets a minimum per tile.

You get one deploy per address per round: once it lands, your tiles are fixed until the next round. The interface stops accepting deploys in the closing seconds, because a signature you start too late can land in the following round instead of the one you meant. If that happens the interface tells you so.

Settlement

When the clock hits zero, one tile is drawn at random by Pyth Network's VRF. Every tile has the same 1-in-25 chance, however much ETH sits on it, and a tile nobody covered can win. A flat 10% protocol fee is taken from the ETH deployed that round, and that fee is what funds buybacks and staking yield. Miners on the winning tile share what remains, pro-rata to what they deployed on that tile, so if you covered all 25 you are paid on the portion that sat on the drawn tile.

If the drawn tile turns out to be one nobody covered, the round has no winners and all of its ETH goes to the vault, where it buys back PEA in the same way the protocol fee does. That is unlikely while the board is well covered, and more likely when it is not.

Each round also mints 1.1 PEA. 1.0 goes to the winning tile: where more than one miner covered it, a 50/50 draw settled by the same VRF decides whether that PEA splits across them pro-rata to their ETH on the tile or goes whole to one of them. If only one miner covered the tile, there is no draw and they take the full 1.0 PEA.

The peapot

The other 0.1 PEA minted each round grows the peapot, a jackpot that builds behind every round. It has a 1-in-333 chance of hitting each round. When it does, it pays out to the miners on the winning tile and starts building again from zero.

Harvesting

Winnings are credited to your address inside the contracts, not to your wallet, and cannot be moved until you harvest them. Harvesting PEA costs a flat 10% fee, and that fee is paid out to everyone who still holds unharvested PEA, so an unharvested balance earns a share of what other miners pay to harvest theirs. The 10% applies only to your unharvested balance: PEA you have already received from other miners' harvest fees is never charged again.

PEA and ETH are claimed separately, and a fresh win is checkpointed onchain before it can be claimed, which the interface handles as an extra transaction.

Mining across several rounds

The AutoMiner deploys for you. You prepay a deposit and fix the configuration, the same tiles and the same amount per tile, for a set number of rounds. It charges a 1% fee on each round it deploys for you, taken out of your deposit. Arming it stakes nothing in the round on screen: its first deploy lands in a later one. One runs at a time, and stopping it returns the unspent balance.

Strategy

Because the draw is flat, covering a given number of tiles gives you that many chances in 25, whatever anyone else deploys. What changes with the crowd is the payout, not the odds: you are paid your share of the drawn tile, so the same ETH returns more on a tile few others covered and less on a busy one. Covering more tiles raises the chance you hold the winner but spreads your ETH thinner. Pick exact tiles, tune the amount per tile, and repeat a position across consecutive rounds, or hit ALL to cover the full board in one tap.