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Current status: All 210 ANT MINERS were minted and revealed, so minting is closed. Public activation is open and remains available for time-based accounting; it burns approximately $10 worth of $ANT from the miner's Asset Signer. Forge is available only during an open 24-hour cooldown. A successful Forge burns one donor NFT, so the live miner count can be lower than the original mint count. Check the live Mine dashboard for the current counts, schedule and action availability. Dashboard earnings are estimates until an epoch allocation is finalized. There is no user claim flow.

The Ant Miner connects $ANT, a collection of 210 originally minted ANT MINER NFTs, and weekly ZEC mining epochs. Successful Forges can reduce the current live NFT count.

The basic loop is simple:

1. Own a live ANT MINER from the 210 originally minted.
2. Deposit enough $ANT into that miner's Asset Signer.
3. Burn approximately $10 worth of $ANT from the Asset Signer to activate the miner.
4. While the activation owner still owns an available miner, its provisional share depends on effective weight and eligible active time during the seven earning days. Listing or transferring the miner forfeits the affected activation period.
5. After the epoch closes, the allocation can be finalized and distributed; any final settlement or distribution proof can exist only after that process completes.
6. Activate again for a later epoch. Listing, selling or transferring first ends the current participation and requires a fresh activation.

Ants mine. Miners earn ZEC. The colony grows.

These docs explain the live collection, activation, epoch accounting, Asset Signer controls and risks. They do not promise a payout amount, yield or financial return.

How It Works

1. $ANT

$ANT is the token used throughout The Ant Miner ecosystem and is live on Stonk.fun.

2. Mint a miner

The collection originally minted 210 ANT MINER NFTs. All were revealed, and the mint is closed. A successful Forge permanently burns a donor NFT, reducing the live count; check the Mine dashboard for the current count. Live miners can change hands through ordinary owner-controlled transfers or supported marketplaces.

3. Activate the miner

Owning a miner does not automatically activate it. The current owner deposits $ANT into the miner's Asset Signer, then approves a burn of approximately $10 worth of $ANT to activate that NFT.

Activation applies to one epoch. An epoch has seven earning days followed by one cooldown day. Activating after earning begins earns only for the remaining active time.

4. The epoch runs

Only available miners activated for an epoch participate during its seven-day earning window. The following one-day cooldown prepares the next cycle and is the only period when Forge can open. The Mine dashboard shows the current or upcoming schedule.

5. Epoch accounting

At the end of the earning window, the funded epoch pool can be finalized across eligible activation periods using official rarity weight and active time. Numbers shown before finalization are estimates, not earned, claimable or guaranteed balances.

6. Finalize and distribute

There is no user claim transaction. An epoch allocation is determined after the earning window, reviewed by the operator, and distributed to eligible miner Asset Signers when finalized. A dashboard estimate is not settlement or proof of distribution.

7. Repeat

Activation does not automatically carry into the next epoch. The then-current owner must activate again with approximately $10 worth of $ANT if they want the miner participating in a later epoch.

The ANT Flywheel

The system connects token use, NFT participation and ZEC mining:

ANT MINER → Deposit $ANT to Asset Signer → Burn to Activate → 7 Earning Days → 1 Cooldown Day → Finalized Allocation → Distribution → Next Epoch

Mint burns

The one-time 210-piece mint is complete. GTG and FCFS minting each required a fixed burn of 250,000 ANT per NFT. The later Public round was priced at 400,000 ANT burned per NFT; the ten team-reserve mints required no ANT burn. These were historical NFT creation rules, not the separate $10-equivalent activation burn.

All 210 ANT MINERS are minted and revealed. No additional collection inventory is available from the mint.

Activation burns

Activating an NFT burns approximately $10 worth of $ANT from that miner's Asset Signer for the selected epoch. The live quote determines the token amount before the owner approves the transaction.

Participation is optional. An NFT that is not activated does not participate. Listing, selling or transferring an activated miner stops its participation; delisting or receiving it back does not restore the paid activation, so the current owner must activate again.

Burn value is not reward funding

Burned $ANT is destroyed, not converted into a ZEC reward pool. An activation burn is a participation action, not an investment or purchase of a guaranteed payout. ZEC distributions require a separately funded and finalized epoch allocation.

$ANT

$ANT is live on Stonk.fun and acts as the participation token for The Ant Miner ecosystem.

What uses $ANT?

Two NFT Mine actions can require $ANT, but they have different destinations:

• Activation: deposit $ANT into the miner's Asset Signer, then burn approximately $10 worth of $ANT to activate it for the selected epoch.
• Forge, during cooldown only: the surviving miner's Asset Signer pays approximately $5 worth of $ANT to the fixed Forge recipient; the donor miner NFT is permanently burned. The Forge payment is transferred, not burned.
• Historical minting: GTG and FCFS were priced at 250,000 ANT burned per NFT; a later Public round was priced at 400,000 ANT burned. Minting is now closed. This is separate from activation.

Activation $ANT is destroyed. The separate Forge payment is transferred to HjzkrD2B7tF8yCMkb54KnTMZJXG5ndYjuj4zTWvCdGQH. Review the current quote and exact transaction in your wallet; network fees are additional.

Holding $ANT

Holding $ANT by itself does not automatically activate an ANT MINER. NFT ownership and weekly activation are separate actions.

Official addresses

The official $ANT mint appears in Technical & Contracts below. Always use the addresses displayed by the official site and verify every wallet transaction before approval.

ANT MINERS

ANT MINERS are a sold-out, fully revealed collection of 210 originally minted NFTs based on generations of Bitmain Equihash/Zcash mining hardware. Successful Forges permanently burn donor NFTs, reducing the live count.

The collection uses the progression of real mining hardware as the basis for its model traits and rarity system.

Each miner carries hardware-related traits including its miner model, hashrate, power draw and efficiency.

Traits & Rarity

The collection contains seven miner models across four rarity tiers. These are hardware reference traits, not a promise of dedicated physical hardware or an NFT’s actual mining output.

Efficiency = power in watts ÷ hashrate in KSol/s, expressed in J/KSol and rounded to two decimals. Lower energy per solution is better. These calculations use nominal values; actual hardware varies by conditions and manufacturer tolerances. Bitmain’s rounded ratings may differ.

60 + 45 + 35 + 28 + 18 + 14 + 10 = 210 ANT MINERS originally minted. The official base reward weights are Common 1, Uncommon 2, Rare 4 and Legendary 8. A completed Forge can increase the surviving miner's effective weight; it does not change its hosted model, rarity, image, name or URI. Weight affects relative allocation for equal active time; it does not promise a payout or return.

Hardware references: Z9 Mini · Z9 · Z11 · Z15 series · Z15 Pro

Minting

All 210 ANT MINERS have been minted and revealed. The mint is sold out and closed.

Historical mint price

• Good to Go (GTG) and FCFS: each successful mint burned a fixed 250,000 ANT per NFT.
• Public round: priced at 400,000 ANT burned per NFT.
• Team reserve: ten reserved NFTs required no ANT burn.

Mint status

There is no active mint flow and no remaining mint inventory.

Minting is closed. Do not send funds to any page or wallet claiming to mint another ANT MINER.

The collection's launch mint process is complete. Its fixed historical mint burns do not set the current activation price and do not fund the epoch pool.

A current owner may transfer or list an existing miner. Either action makes an active miner unavailable and ends its current participation. The receiving owner, or an owner who later delists, must complete a fresh activation to participate again.

Collection supply

The original mint was fixed at 210 ANT MINERS; no new miners can be minted. Each successful Forge burns one donor NFT, so the current live supply can be lower. The official dashboard verifies Core assets from that collection rather than accepting arbitrary NFTs with similar names or images.

Activation is separate

The live activation flow is separate from the closed mint. It quotes approximately $10 worth of $ANT using the current supported price source, checks the miner's Asset Signer balance and asks the current owner to review the exact transaction. Network fees are additional, and the irreversible burn does not guarantee any ZEC amount.

Activation & Epochs

Minting creates the miner. Activation puts it to work for an epoch.

Activation

To activate one ANT MINER, deposit $ANT into its Asset Signer and approve a burn of approximately:

$10 worth of $ANT

Activation applies to one epoch only and is recorded for the wallet that owns and activates the miner. If earning has already begun, only time after final activation can count.

Epoch length

Each cycle has 7 earning days plus 1 cooldown day. Forge is limited to that cooldown. Public activation remains available during both earning and cooldown after opening; an earning-period activation counts only eligible time after chain finalization, while a cooldown activation arms the miner for the approved next epoch.

An activated, available miner participates according to its official rarity weight and active seconds within the earning window. An inactive miner does not. Values displayed during the epoch are provisional estimates because the pool and complete set of eligible active time are not final yet.

Next epoch

Activation does not automatically renew. If the current owner wants the miner participating in a later epoch, the miner must be activated again by burning approximately $10 worth of $ANT from its Asset Signer.

This makes activation a voluntary, epoch-by-epoch decision.

Transfers and epoch boundaries

Listing, selling or transferring a miner immediately ends its current activation. If this happens during an earning epoch, the entire affected activation period is forfeited, including time before the listing, sale or transfer; that period receives no ZEC allocation. Delisting or transferring the miner back does not restore the paid activation. The current owner must activate again, and only eligible time in a new activation period can count. Dashboard earnings shown before finalization are estimates, not an amount owed.

Forge

Forge combines two miners into one stronger survivor. The selected donor NFT is permanently burned. The surviving NFT keeps its owner and Asset Signer; its controlled on-chain Attributes record the new effective weight. Forge does not change hosted metadata, artwork, names, URIs or marketplace rarity traits.

Survivor and donor: what do they mean?

• Survivor = the miner you keep. Click Forge on this miner's card in the Mine page. That click sets it as the survivor. Its NFT and Asset Signer remain, and its effective on-chain weight increases after a successful Forge.
• Donor = the miner you burn. After you click Forge, a pop-up shows other ready miners. The different miner you select there is the donor. Its NFT is permanently destroyed; you cannot recover it.

When and which miners?

Forge is available only during the 24-hour cooldown after an earning epoch. Both miners must be owned by the connected wallet, live, inactive, unlisted, unfrozen, undelegated and never forged before. Their verified model and rarity must match exactly. An active or armed miner must wait until it is powered down. Each miner can be used in a Forge only once.

Forge weight chart

The donor contributes 75% of its base weight, not 100%; the survivor's effective weight becomes 1.75× its base weight. This affects only a later eligible activation. An existing activation period keeps the weight it recorded when activated, and no ZEC amount is guaranteed.

Prepare the two miners

• Miner to burn (donor): withdraw all ANT, ZEC and SOL from its Asset Signer. Check for any other tokens or NFTs yourself; Forge does not inspect or move them, and assets left behind may become inaccessible.
• Miner to keep (survivor): leave enough ANT in its Asset Signer for the live quote of approximately $5 worth of ANT. This payment goes to HjzkrD2B7tF8yCMkb54KnTMZJXG5ndYjuj4zTWvCdGQH; it is not the $10 ANT activation burn. Network fees are additional.

Forge on the Mine page

1. First, empty the miner you intend to burn (the donor). Withdraw all ANT, ZEC and SOL from its Asset Signer, and check for any other tokens or NFTs yourself. Forge does not inspect or move other assets; anything left in the donor's Asset Signer may become permanently inaccessible when the donor NFT burns.
2. Connect the owner wallet and rescan your miners. On the card for the miner you want to keep, click Forge. That card's miner is now the survivor; it will not appear in the donor pop-up.
3. In the pop-up, select a different matching miner to be the donor. Only ready donors from your latest scan are listed. If the intended donor is missing, confirm its Asset Signer is empty of ANT, ZEC and SOL, check its eligibility, and rescan.
4. The page checks the selected donor again before opening the irreversible review. Verify the full survivor and donor asset IDs, copy or type the exact BURN phrase, and acknowledge that the donor NFT will be lost forever.
5. Review and approve one atomic wallet transaction: ANT payment from the survivor's Asset Signer, update of the survivor's controlled Attributes, and permanent burn of the donor NFT. Do not approve or pay again while confirmation is pending.
6. After final confirmation, rescan. The survivor should show its new effective weight, and the live miner count should be lower by one.

The picker uses your latest wallet scan only as a convenience filter. Final on-chain ownership, balances, availability, payment and cooldown are independently rechecked before the irreversible transaction. If a donor is missing, empty its balances and rescan; do not send a transaction to bypass the checks.

Marketplace display

A marketplace may continue showing the original hosted rarity and traits even after Forge. Check the official Mine dashboard and on-chain controlled Attributes for the current effective weight before buying or selling. Forge does not replace the hosted metadata file.

ZEC Rewards

The ANT MINER reward system operates in cycles of seven earning days followed by one cooldown day. Check the Mine dashboard for the currently approved schedule.

Source of the NFT allocation

Each epoch uses a separately funded ZEC pool. Its final distributable amount is fixed only when the post-earning allocation is finalized; a live pool balance can change and is not itself a promised payout.

Who participates?

Only live ANT MINERS with eligible active time in that epoch can participate. Listing, sale or transfer ends the affected activation period and forfeits its entire provisional allocation, including time before the event. Delisting or receiving the miner back requires a new activation.

Rarity

Base rarity weights are Common 1, Uncommon 2, Rare 4 and Legendary 8. After a successful Forge, the surviving miner's controlled Attributes can increase its effective weight; an eligible later activation uses that effective weight. Eligible active time also matters.

A weight is a relative accounting input, not a fixed ZEC amount, APR or guaranteed return.

Settlement and distribution

There is no user claim flow. A deterministic allocation and operator approval are required before the offline disburser sends approved amounts to eligible miner Asset Signers.

Final settlement and distribution proof can exist only after the relevant epoch closes and its process completes. A live dashboard estimate is not that proof. Distribution does not activate a miner for a later epoch.

Allocation math

Final allocation is proportional to weight × eligible active seconds. In compact form, a miner's share is R × (w × t) ÷ Σ(w × t): R is the finalized epoch pool, w is the miner's official weight and t is its eligible active time. Integer token-unit rounding can leave retained dust.

Dashboard amounts use the current pool, active set, weights and elapsed time, so they are estimates and may move. They are not finalized, claimable or guaranteed. Final allocation uses integer token units and cannot distribute more than the finalized pool.

Separate from token-holder rewards

StonkFun token-holder distributions and the NFT epoch allocation are separate systems. NFT epoch amounts are not derived from trading volume alone. The NFT Mine uses the configured Solana ZEC token for its pool and Asset Signer balances; it is not native Zcash. Shielding can bridge supported Solana ZEC to your shielded Zcash address; see the quick guides below.

Miner Shielding

From your miner's Asset Signer → shielded Zcash. No ANT MINER site fee.

1. Open NFT Mine and connect the miner's owner wallet.
2. Choose your miner → Shield ZEC. Check its deposited ZEC balance.
3. Paste your own shielded mainnet u1 address and enter an amount. Use 25%, Half or Max if helpful.
4. Prepare quote → review the amount, destination and expected receipt → Confirm + sign in wallet. Approve once.

Minimum: 0.002 ZEC deposited in the Asset Signer. Keep SOL in your connected owner wallet for network fees and any account rent. Provider costs apply; a live quote is required.

Status updates automatically while the dialog is open; scheduled tracking continues in the background. Use the Solscan link and verify arrival in your Zcash wallet. Never repeat a pending payment. If the bridge refunds, funds return to the miner's Asset Signer after applicable costs.

Illustrated quick guide

Public Shielding

From your Solana wallet → shielded Zcash. No miner needed. 0.3% site fee, waived for 100,000 ANT held in your connected wallet OR locked on StakePoint. Smaller held and locked balances are not combined. Eligibility is checked on-chain for each new quote.

1. Open Shielding and connect a Solana wallet holding the supported ZEC token.
2. Use the selected ZEC account. Paste your own shielded mainnet u1 address and enter your total ZEC to spend.
3. Check your site fee: waived if eligible, otherwise 0.3%. Accept any retained fee shown and choose Prepare quote.
4. Check the destination and expected receipt → Confirm + sign in wallet. Approve once; status and the Solscan link update automatically. Verify arrival in your Zcash wallet.

Minimum total spend: 0.002 ZEC when the site fee is waived; 0.00200601 ZEC otherwise. At least 0.002 ZEC must reach the bridge. Keep SOL for network fees and any account rent. Provider costs still apply; a live quote is required.

Any charged site fee is retained after Solana confirmation, even if the bridge refunds. A bridge refund returns to the funding wallet after applicable costs. Never repeat a pending payment.

For both flows, use a mainnet u1 address with shielded receivers only. The bridge provider receives your destination to deliver ZEC; this app does not save the private address or full quote. A provider delivery reference is a Zcash transaction ID, not your receiving address.

Illustrated quick guide

Transparency

The Ant Miner is designed so participants can understand where ecosystem activity comes from and how weekly accounting works.

The dashboard surfaces live protocol and ownership observations. Final epoch settlement and distribution records are distinct from live estimates and can exist only after the close-and-finalize process completes.

Intended public records

• Epoch start and end times
• Number of activated miners per epoch
• $ANT burned through minting
• $ANT burned through activation
• ZEC allocated to the NFT system
• Distribution calculations
• Finalized payout manifest and allocation totals
• Distribution transaction signatures after settlement
• Historical epoch data
• Relevant mining and onchain addresses

Where possible, final records should link directly to the underlying onchain transaction or public record rather than asking users to trust a displayed number. Live estimates must remain labeled as provisional.

Technical & Contracts

This section is the canonical location for the project's production contract addresses and technical infrastructure.

NFT standard

The revealed ANT MINER collection consists of Metaplex Core assets on Solana.

Before interacting

Do not rely on addresses copied from unofficial posts, replies or direct messages. Verify production addresses against the official ANT website and this documentation.

Production addresses

Official $ANT mint on Solana: 7ypCq2CJ4fnbtS3z2B1W1UT2he5E3u7Md6Gy1ri7uGrQ. The official NFT Mine dashboard verifies the production Core collection and current ownership. There is no claim contract or user claim transaction.

• ANT MINER Core collection: HbKqLVFzPU7VLnPjkaYgLqCkEaDsHrEddwKsPxccG7yh
• Epoch pool wallet: HjzkrD2B7tF8yCMkb54KnTMZJXG5ndYjuj4zTWvCdGQH (also the separate Forge fee recipient)
• Offline disburser wallet: 4Ry3SPX1mEu1vznTZyMXuBLvN9CVrnqSUWj7mAPFA7Y3. Finalized distributions require their own published transaction signatures.

Never treat an unverified address as production infrastructure. Final epoch records must be distinguished from provisional dashboard data.

Asset Signer deposits and withdrawals

Every Core miner has a deterministic Asset Signer address; it is not a wallet with a private key. A deposit moves supported SOL, $ANT or Solana ZEC from the connected owner wallet to that miner's Asset Signer. A withdrawal uses current-owner authorization and Core Execute to move assets from the Asset Signer back to the authenticated current owner. The owner reviews the complete transaction and pays applicable network and Core execution fees.

Activation burns $ANT held by the miner's Asset Signer, not $ANT directly from the connected owner wallet. Verify the miner, asset, token, amount, source and destination shown by the wallet before approving.

Forge and shielding

Forge can open only during an approved 24-hour cooldown, after the live Mine page confirms availability. Its restricted on-chain program updates the surviving miner's controlled Attributes and burns the donor atomically with the $ANT payment. Hosted metadata, marketplace traits, names, images and URIs are not changed, so a marketplace may still display original traits; check the Mine dashboard for current effective weight. Miner shielding and wallet-funded shielding are available separately; see their quick guides above.

FAQ & Risks

How many ANT MINERS exist?

Exactly 210 ANT MINERS were originally minted. The collection is sold out and fully revealed. Each successful Forge permanently burns one donor NFT; check the Mine dashboard for the current live and burned counts.

What was the mint price?

GTG and FCFS mints each burned a fixed 250,000 ANT per NFT. The later Public round was priced at 400,000 ANT burned per NFT; ten team-reserve mints required no ANT burn. Minting is closed, so there is no current mint transaction. The $10-equivalent ANT burn is for activating an existing miner, not minting one. Existing miners may be acquired only from a current owner or supported marketplace, with the usual market and transaction risks.

Does owning an NFT automatically earn ZEC every week?

No. The NFT must be activated for that epoch to participate in that epoch's NFT ZEC allocation.

How much does activation cost?

Activation burns approximately $10 worth of $ANT per NFT per epoch from the miner's Asset Signer, based on the live quote shown before approval. Network fees are additional.

How long is an epoch?

Each cycle has 7 earning days plus 1 cooldown day. Active-time accounting applies only inside the seven-day earning window.

Does activation automatically renew?

No. Activation is performed separately for each epoch.

Is the ZEC payout fixed?

No. Dashboard amounts are provisional estimates until the epoch pool and allocation are finalized. The result depends on the finalized pool, official weight, eligible active time and the complete participating set. There is no guaranteed payout or return.

Risks

$ANT, NFTs, cryptocurrency markets and mining economics can be volatile. Mining output can change, token prices can change, software and smart contracts can contain risks, and participation can result in losses. Burning $ANT is irreversible once the applicable transaction is successfully executed.

These docs explain the live system and clearly marked future features; they are not a guarantee of token price, mining output, payout amount or financial return. There is no user claim flow. Forge is limited to approved cooldowns. Shielding uses a third-party bridge, has provider/network costs and is not instant; never repeat a payment while its saved transfer is pending.