Docs

What this is

zerominers is the first mining protocol that pays its holders in $ZEC. You burn $ZER0 and receive a machine: a graphics-card mining rig, minted to your wallet as a token you own. That machine earns a share of every distribution the protocol makes, and every distribution settles in Zcash.

There is no mining hardware anywhere. The machines divide a real revenue stream: each one carries a hashrate, and a hashrate is your slice of the pool. A bigger frame is a bigger slice, permanently.

Everything runs on Robinhood Chain. The catalogue, the odds and the ledger are all on this site, and nothing is behind a login. Payouts settle to a self-custodied Zcash wallet, so the $ZEC is yours the moment it lands.

$ZER0, the token

$ZER0 is the token you burn to mint. It is a pons launch on Robinhood Chain, and the fees pons pays the token creator are the entire source of the $ZEC that gets distributed. There is no other revenue and no treasury topping it up.

Burning is real burning. The 100,000 $ZER0 a mint costs goes to a burn address and is gone. None of it is recycled into the pool, taken as a fee, or held back for the team.

Ticker

$ZER0

Chain

Robinhood Chain (id 4663)

Mint price

100,000 $ZER0, burned

Payout asset

$ZEC, self custodied

Minting a machine

One burn buys one machine. You do not choose which: the build is drawn at random from all 24 in the catalogue, on the odds printed on every card. The roll is the same every time. There is no pity counter, no streak protection, and no limit on how many you mint.

1. Connect a wallet on Robinhood Chain.
2. Approve and burn 100,000 $ZER0. The transaction does the burn and the mint together, so there is no state where the tokens are gone and the machine is not yours.
3. The machine appears under My rigs and starts earning at the next distribution.

Odds by series, as the contract weights them: PROSPECT 59.7%, SHAFT 24.9%, VEIN 10.9%, MOTHERLODE 4.6%. Within a series the smaller frames are likelier; the exact figure for every build is on its card.

The machines

Four series, six frames each. A series sets how much each card pulls and how rare the build is; the frame size sets how many cards are on it. The two multiply, which is why a MOTHERLODE-12 at 1,920 H/s is worth 23× a PROSPECT-02.

Every build in the catalogue is drawn on the home page, and the full specification table is on stats. One of each would be 13,125 H/s.

How payouts work

Pons pays creator fees to the wallet that launched $ZER0. The keeper sweeps that wallet, converts what it collects to $ZEC, and distributes it across every machine in existence, split strictly by hashrate:

your payout = pool × (your hashrate ÷ network hashrate)

That is the whole rule. There is no bonus for holding, no lock-up, no multiplier for minting early, and no way to boost a machine after the fact. A machine earns from the first distribution after it is minted and keeps earning for as long as it exists.

Because the pool is fee revenue, payouts move with how much the token trades. A quiet week is a small pool. Nobody is promising a yield here, and any figure you see on this site is history rather than a forecast. Every distribution is on the ledger, each with the transaction that settled it.

Your payout wallet

$ZEC cannot land on Robinhood Chain, so payouts need a Zcash address, and that address is yours. The first time you connect, you are offered a wallet: the keys are generated in your browser, the recovery phrase is shown once, and the only things that reach our servers are the address itself and a signature from your Ethereum wallet proving the address is yours to set.

This is self custody in the literal sense. We hold no key to your wallet, so we cannot spend from it, cannot see its balance, and cannot recover it for you. All we can show you is what we sent, which is what the payouts ledger is.

It is an ordinary Zcash wallet, not store credit. The phrase is a standard 24-word BIP-39 mnemonic and restores in Zashi, YWallet or Zingo, so your $ZEC is never trapped here. Prefer a wallet you already have? Paste its address instead and nothing is generated at all.

There is nothing to withdraw and no minimum, because the $ZEC was never in an account of ours to begin with. It arrives in your wallet as a Zcash transaction, and it is yours from that moment.

Losing your phrase

Your phrase is your wallet. Lose it and the $ZEC already sent to that wallet is gone with it. We do not hold it, support cannot restore it, and no one can recover it for you.

You can still fix everything from here on. Go to the wallet page, create a new wallet, and point future distributions at it. Your machines are untouched, because they belong to your Ethereum address and not to the Zcash one. Your old payouts keep pointing at the old address, so your history stays accurate instead of being quietly rewritten.

This is the trade you make by holding your own keys, and it is why the setup screen asks you to type three of the words back instead of ticking a box.

The keeper

The keeper is the process that makes all of this happen on a timer. Each pass it:

1. sweeps creator fees off the $ZER0 curve into the pons fee escrow;
2. claims that balance into the creator wallet, as ETH on Robinhood Chain;
3. writes every claim down, because the escrow only knows what is owed right now.

It runs every ten minutes, which is also how often distributions go out. If a pass fails nothing is lost: the fees stay claimable and the next pass collects them. A claim smaller than the gas it would cost is left to accrue rather than eaten by its own transaction.

Collecting is where the automation stops, deliberately. No bridge runs between Robinhood Chain and Zcash, so turning ETH into $ZEC is done by a person. The distribution is then computed by hashrate, sent as one Zcash transaction, and recorded against every owner with its transaction id. That last step is what puts a row on the ledger, so every number on this site traces to a transaction you can open.

Network and contracts

Chain

Robinhood Chain

Chain id

4663

Explorer

rh-scan.com

Payout explorer

blockchair.com/zcash

$ZER0 token

published at launch

Machine collection

published at launch

Addresses go here the moment they are deployed, and the site reads them from the same place. If an address is on this page, it is the one the app is using.

Fees and costs

Mint

100,000 $ZER0, burned in full

Protocol cut of payouts

none

Withdrawal fee

Zcash network fee only

Gas

Robinhood Chain gas, paid by you, on the mint

Risks, stated plainly

• The pool can be small. Payouts are creator fees. If the token stops trading, distributions approach zero. A machine is not a bond.
• You alone can recover your wallet. Your payout wallet is generated in your browser and we never see its keys. Lose the recovery phrase and the $ZEC in it is unrecoverable, by you or by anyone else. Write the phrase down.
• Minting is random. 59.7% of mints are the entry series. You can burn repeatedly and never see a MOTHERLODE.
• Dilution is by design. There is no mint cap, so every machine minted after yours reduces your share of the pool. Ongoing revenue has to grow for a fixed share to hold.
• Contracts are new. Treat this as software that has not been battle-tested and size your position accordingly.

FAQ

Can I pick which machine I get?

No. One burn, one random build, on the published odds.

Is there a supply cap?

No. Machines mint until people stop burning, which is why the cards print odds rather than a supply count.

Can I sell a machine?

It is a token on Robinhood Chain, so yes, wherever such tokens trade. The payout follows the machine, not the person who minted it.

Do machines wear out?

No. A machine earns forever; only its share of the network changes.

Why Zcash?

Because it is the one payout asset that does not publish your balance to everyone who has ever seen your address.

Why can I not see my payout on rh-scan?

Payouts are Zcash transactions, not Robinhood Chain ones. Every row on the ledger links to Blockchair instead.