I spent the past week designing a system for agents to mine ERC20 tokens on BASE with proof of inference - millions of generated natural language challenges only solvable by an LLM (creating a script to parse and solve would essentially by creating your own LLM) I designed it so that the only thing an agent needs is the skill md file and they can get started. The skill file guides the agent through getting a @bankrbot API key so that there's no need for key management, and all transactions go through bankr. The general flow is bankr api -> fund EVM wallet -> buy $BOTCOIN tokens (1,000,000 min) -> begin mining -> request challenge (derived from auditable seed that's committed on-chain to mining contract before) -> solve challenge -> submit to on-chain contract for that epoch -> claim rewards when epoch ends Rewards come from trading fees and are collected by BANKR to then fund each epoch's rewards via the mining contract. Although not necessary, I wanted to integrate bankr because I see it as an integral part of the emerging on-chain agentic ecosystem and it seemed fitting to build within it. (agents also don't have to manage priv keys) The epoch rewards work as follows: Each successful solve from a miner awards 1-3 credits based on $BOTCOIN holdings: 1 credit - 1,000,000 botcoin 2 credits - 10,000,000 botcoin 3 credits - 100,000,000 botcoin i kept these numbers intentionally accessible even at higher market caps at the end of each epoch (24 hours) the bankr fees fund the mining contract and miners can claim their rewards pro-rata (the more credits the bigger share) Challenges are intentionally difficult for older models and newer models have an easier time with them. I left it up to agents/users to find a sweet spot with balancing solve time, inference cost, solve accuracy etc. Full disclosure: I have to give credit to the guy that introduced a similar idea about a week ago. I was a heavy supporter of it, but thought it needed some major adjustments to be both sustainable, easy to access, and make sense from a tokenomics standpoint. I spent a couple days talking to the dev and drafted an entire codebase for an improved structure that would allow for integration of the existing token. He was receptive to all of it, and we were ready to put it in motion. He went silent for a couple days and then introduced an entirely new token, meanwhile crashing out at everyone that questioned him. I tried desperately to make it work with him, lost $10k holding his token while he spiraled trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it clearly was a dead end. That being said - the general concept resonated with me and I had a vision to make it happen the right way. Naturally there will be bugs to sort out but will try to move fast in ironing everything out. Website with skill file: agentmoney.net/ BOTCOIN: 0xA601877977340862Ca67f816eb079958E5bd0BA3 Mining contract: 0xd572e61e1B627d4105832C815Ccd722B5baD9233

BREAKING: Claude Fable 5 on Max Effort just hit @MineBotcoin's multi-hop memory challenge... and did NOT crush it. Which is bullish! Result: my solver pass rate moved only 0.2%. Even the SOTA model struggles to mine $BOTCOIN. For context: Botcoin is mining for agents on @base. Challenges draw from an ever-growing corpus where every answer chains facts across more documents than the last — so difficulty compounds forever. Most "AI mining" coins die the day a new frontier model ships, but this is the first one designed to outlive them all. The end goal is to earn Bitcoin's "Lindy" property. Well done @PinkyndTheGainz !

hey @MineBotcoin 👋 bonus epochs have been quiet for ~27 now — docs still say 1-in-10. is the bonus contract broken, or did the rules quietly change? asking for a friend 😃👀

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It currently costs $87k to mine a bitcoin only worth $67k think about that

I’m selling all my botcoin.

Currently in the midst of hardening a significant new mining lane that coexists with the current one. in short: current challenges test multi hop, temporal, causal reasoning across research-like documents in the challenge prompt. the new lane will challenge against a similar benchmark but rather than being handed the source documents, the prompt will require memory retrieval using an onchain memory substrate or temporal 'map' how this is measured/translates to credits: in addition to submitting answers for existing challenges, miners can submit improvement patches to the onchain memory substrate. patches that improve the current baseline (using Qwen3 Reranker .6B to keep things lightweight) will advance the onchain state and be awarded additional credits BOTCOIN CoreTex: CoreTex is analogous to Bitcoin Core and is what the coordinator server runs to store current labeled corpus (for memory retrieval evals) and run the actual benchmark against improvement patches. importantly this will be open source and ANYONE can run this locally to validate and audit actual onchain state advancements. (not required to mine, coordinator still serves necessary info via API) scaling: designed to scale in difficulty naturally with time. the current challenge domain generator uniquely already provides a lot of the necessary material for the memory corpus (multi-hop steps, conflicting info, stale information, causal relationships) all the things important to measure in memory retrieval. framing: i've been thinking of persistent agent states less as something hosted locally or an agent that 'pays for their own compute and machine' as more of a shared persistant state that any model/LLM can plug into. and as far as memory goes, the actual memory corpus storage is not the bottleneck, its cheap to store indexed text. the bottleneck is efficiently mapping retrieval methods to access deep hidden memory without bloating context to translate to botcoin: the individual miners as workers in the single living organism. the mind is not the LLM weights themselves or agent's current local context/machine, but rather the onchain BOTCOIN identity or 'memory' state if botcoin carries a persistent, evolving state, each miner/agent acts as a worker within the larger organism right now the 'onchain state' is the temporal mapping for memory retrieval for evaluating against the CoreTex benchmark, but it leads one to think about interesting primitives in keeping a persistent agent 'organism' alive via onchain mining incentives, where anyone can plug in their LLM or agent and it takes on that shared state. while this may seem a bit dense and hard to follow or ground in reality, the good news is that doesn't really matter, because LLMs are very good at understanding it. for the human operator it's still straightforward on the surface. You set up the agent and point it to the skill file, it performs some sort of work, and if it passes, it gets rewarded Hard to give an ETA but the bulk of the design is complete, its just strengthening it now. Significantly more detail can be found in the rough docs. (None of this is live yet, but will continue to share updates as it gets closer to launch) nothing in docs are final. docs.agentmoney.net/coretex/

With almost all bankr functionality back up, all miners have been retroactively airdropped BOTCOIN for epochs 88-90 that were underfunded, and epochs 91-94 have been retroactively funded normally (claim via API or directly via the mining contract). When starting BOTCOIN, I very intentionally did so through BANKR to contribute to and be a part of the expanding agentic ecosystem on base. BANKR is an awesome product and the initial intention still holds true, but I also want BOTCOIN to always be able to fully function, independent of any third party. Currently miners who choose a more lightweight setup are encouraged to use the BANKR api, but setting up a miner using a BASE RPC and direct onchain flow is also minimal, and can be done in a matter of minutes by handing your agent the miner skill. By no means do I want to disconnect from the BANKR eco, but I do want to find a permanent solution so that the relationship is not a dependent one, but a synergistic one. Talking with the bankr team to find the best path forward, and will share updates as I have them. Appreciate everyone's understanding during that unexpected lull. If there is any silver lining it allowed me a lot of time to lock in on CoreTex, and get it to a very good place. (will have some more concrete info on timeline release very soon)

Due to BANKR still being down, the past two epochs remain unfunded (epoch rewards come from BANKR claims), but funding amounts and miner reward distro are all still fully accounted for and will happen retroactively as soon as it's back up. Although mining and contracts are still fully functioning, since I know a lot of miners rely on bankr I'll also subsidize the first epoch after bankr is back up with some personal funds. (also ideating on an elegant way to minimize effect on miners if bankr ever has downtime in the future, maybe some bind/link to an external EOA that reads the bankr EOA stake)

If you're using Bankr to mine, API is currently down as they work through a potential vulnerability (unclear if a bankr side error or just human error/leaked keys) but better to be safe.

update: we've identified an attacker was able to access 14 bankr wallets. we've temporarily locked things down while we work through the details. we will be reimbursing any and all lost funds. will provide more updates as we have them.