Participate in mining

Evidence level: mixed. Guardian registration, validator deposits, and Treasury miner views are production references. Runtime mining gossip is an implemented capability in CoNET-SI and CoNET-DL. Admission to the Guardian registry is permissioned.

Public site: https://gitbook.conet.network/developers/l1-mining.html

“Mining” in CoNET is not one role. Before you write a client or provision a host, pick the set you actually mean.

Four sets (do not collapse them)

A temporary gap between registered Guardians and live miners is expected after a restart or onboarding wave. It is not evidence that L1 consensus lost validators. See L1 decentralization.

This page is the developer path for DePIN mining gossip (Guardian + LayerMinus). L1 validator operation is a separate consensus stack (Geth + Prysm, 32 CNET per counted validator) and is described under Validators.

What DePIN mining is

LayerMinus collector
  └─ encrypt command: "mining"  (omit listenKind)
     └─ HTTP/SSE to the target SI   ← infrastructure exception: may dial that SI directly
        └─ SI pushes signed gossip { epoch, nodeWallet, hash, nodeWallets[], … }
           └─ collector verifies the node wallet signature
              └─ optional report to a cluster master
                 └─ epoch totals written on L1

CoNET-SI emits signed mining / liveness frames to connected LayerMinus clients. CoNET-DL (or an equivalent worker) dials the SI. The cluster master does not open mailbox listens on behalf of every node.

This direct SI listen is the documented exception to the application rule C ≠ B. Do not copy it into Chat, presence, mailbox ACK, or UDP sessions. Those still encrypt to mailbox B and enter through an independent entry.

Chat reuses command: "mining" for transport compatibility but must set listenKind: "chat". Omitting listenKind classifies the session as mining.

How to participate

1. Decide the role

Guardian addNode / removeNode require adminList. The node list is publicly readable; joining the registry is not permissionless. A running SI that is not registered will not appear in getAllNodes discovery.

2. Run the node (Guardian / SI)

A registered row is only eligibility and discovery. Runtime mining also needs:

1. CoNET-SI accepting POST /post (HTTP :80 for SI-to-SI; client HTTPS optional).
2. A reachable public IP that matches the registry / advertised address.
3. A route OpenPGP key that isMyRoute can bind to wallets that chose this mailbox.
4. At least one LayerMinus collector that successfully opens a mining SSE and verifies gossip.

Public runtime: CoNET-project/CoNET-SI · @conet.project/mvp-si.

Do not treat this page as a host rebuild or process-restart runbook. Changing execution / consensus / validator processes is outside DePIN mining and requires an explicit operations decision.

3. Run or write a collector (LayerMinus)

Public collector / data plane: CoNET-project/CoNET-DL · @conet.project/mvp-dl.

A collector:

1. Lists Guardians from L1 (getAllNodes). Live mapping: PGP = base64 route public key, PGPKey = domain.
2. Encrypts a signed command: "mining" (no listenKind) to that node’s route PGP.
3. Opens HTTP/SSE to that SI /post (infrastructure may use the target host directly).
4. Verifies hash recovers nodeWallet.
5. May forward verified aggregates to a configured master for epoch accounting.

Handshake frames may omit nodeWallets. Signed gossip is not mailbox business plaintext.

4. Sample: mining listen command

Reuse the SI signed-command helper from the SI developer guide. The command object is:

const command = {
  command: 'mining',
  // omit listenKind — SI defaults the session to mining
  walletAddress: wallet.address,
  algorithm: 'aes-256-cbc',
  Securitykey: sessionKeyBase64,
}

Encrypt { message: JSON.stringify(command), signMessage } to the target SI route PGP. Keep the HTTP/SSE response open.

// Chat clients must not copy this. They send listenKind: "chat" via entry C ≠ B.
const miningListen = {
  command: 'mining',
  walletAddress: collectorWallet.address,
  algorithm: 'aes-256-cbc',
  Securitykey: sessionKeyBase64,
}

First-frame {status, epoch, …} / “Unknown format” heartbeats are liveness, not Chat messages.

Compensation and accounting

Forwarding pays for carrying ciphertext, not for reading it.

Read the current sets

RPC=https://rpc1.conet.network
G=0xBC6b53065b5647261396d002bDBA0d3396E0722f
VDR=0xc71e246DD78B37C2fABc905D340932F28F503433

cast call $G "getUniqueOwnerCount()(uint256)" --rpc-url $RPC
cast call $VDR "totalStakedValidatorCount()(uint256)" --rpc-url $RPC

Page getAllNodes as in the SI node sample. Reproduce stake and region facts from L1 decentralization. Treat a failed RPC as untrusted; do not overwrite a previous success with zero.

Related

• Guardian Nodes — registry vs runtime
• Validators — 32 CNET consensus role
• Node and client roles — SI vs LayerMinus
• SI developer guide — /post and command catalog
• Bring an ERC-20 into CoNET — Treasury miners are a different set

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