Every era of crypto has its own symbol of value. Bitcoin proved what scarcity means, Ethereum showed what programmability can do. On Solana, speed and openness called for something native to the chain itself — a store of value anyone can mine directly on-chain ⛓️
⛏️ ORE brings that vision to life as a Solana-native digital commodity built on fairness and transparency. With a capped maximum supply of just 5 million $ORE tokens and zero insider allocations, ORE runs a one-minute mining cycle based on a provably fair process.
Each round unfolds on a 5×5 grid, where miners deploy a small amount of $SOL on a block. When the minute ends, a random generator selects the winning block. All $SOL from the losing blocks is split among miners on the winning block in proportion to the space they claimed.
In most rounds, one winning miner is chosen by weighted chance to receive +1 $ORE. Roughly once in three rounds, that ~1 $ORE reward is shared among all miners on the winning block 🧱
🎰 A Motherlode pool adds +0.2 $ORE every round and has a 1 in 625 chance to trigger — like a jackpot that keeps accumulating until it hits, then is distributed among the winning miners 🏆
✨ 10 % of all $SOL mining rewards are automatically collected by the protocol as revenue and used to buy back the $ORE token off open market. 90 % of the purchased $ORE is automatically buried and 10 % is distributed to stakers as yield 💸
ORE originally launched with a CPU-friendly proof-of-work algorithm called Drillx, designed to make mining accessible to anyone with standard hardware. The protocol has since evolved into this grid-based system, and built to transform mining into a fair, self-sustaining economy.
