Quantus mainnet · QPoW · verified against upstream docs 2026-09-29

Your mining command center

Everything a Quantus miner needs in one forge: a setup wizard that writes your commands for you, a rig builder on verified hashrates, a benchmark interpreter, the wormhole system demystified, and the security checklist the docs insist on.

Miner's cut100% — no dev tax

Block time~12 sec

Emission(21M − supply) / 50M

Rewards go towormhole address

Miner protocolquantus-miner/2

⚙ Setup Wizard

Pick your platform, tune the knobs, and every command below rewrites itself with your values. Paste them in order. Commands follow the upstream MINING.md and the official quantus-miner README; --chain mainnet per the mainnet guides.

Node name Base path CPU workers GPU devices NVIDIA CUDA build (--cuda-gpu) External miner on this host (adds --miner-listen-port 9833)

Sources: chain/MINING.md · quantus-miner README · docs.quantus.com/guides/mining

🔥 Rig Builder

Add your hardware. Hashrates come from published community benchmarks (labeled per row) — your mileage varies with driver, build, and thermals. The reward estimate uses the chain's real emission formula and is labeled an estimate, never a promise.

Your hardware

CPU threads ~15 MH/s per thread (official miner, per 0xmoei guide)

Total hashrate 0 MH/s

What could it earn?

Network hashrate (GH/s) Current supply (QTC)

Defaults are a dated snapshot capture (network hashrate ≈43.01 TH/s from difficulty 516,097,908,846,369 and ~5.798M total issuance, at block 195,788 on 2026-10-09). When the builder's hourly chain snapshot loads, both defaults refresh from it automatically. Verify with the Block Explorer.

Your share of network—

Block reward now—

Expected QTC / day—

Expected blocks / day—

Estimate only: assumes constant difficulty and the observed ~15.9s block pace from the Oct 9, 2026 chain snapshot (block 195,788) — not the 12s target. Real results follow luck and network growth.

Verified hashrate reference (click to expand)

GPU	Hashrate	Source

Figures are community-observed on Quantus QPoW (Poseidon2) and vary by miner build, driver, and clocks. The longcipher row shows the official build vs. a tuned community build — official first.

📊 Benchmark Interpreter

Run ./quantus-miner benchmark --gpu-devices 1 --duration 30, then punch your number in. We grade it against the verified reference for your card class.

Device Your benchmark (MH/s)

CUDA vs WGSL: upstream's own Clore benches show CUDA ~4.2× faster than the wgpu path on the same host — NVIDIA users should prefer the --cuda-gpu build.
Throttle: mining while you work? Add --gpu-throttle-ms 50 to give the desktop breathing room.
Keep-alive: the node drops idle miner connections after 60 s — the bundled miner heartbeats every 5 s; third-party miners must too.
CPU is for the node, not the money: ~15 MH/s per CPU thread vs 1+ GH/s on a modern GPU. A 16-core CPU adds roughly 2% to a single RTX 4090 rig.

🌀 The Wormhole System

The single most important thing to understand before you mine: rewards are never sent to an address you paste in. They go to a privacy-preserving wormhole address derived from your preimage — automatically.

Your preimage

A 32-byte secret (inner_hash) generated on your machine by quantus-node key quantus --scheme wormhole. Never shared.

Poseidon hash

The node hashes your preimage with Poseidon — the same ZK-friendly hash behind QPoW. One way, quantum-resistant.

Wormhole address

Your reward address. The node derives it at startup and logs it. Rewards land here with no claim step — private by default.

Save the inner_hash. It is effectively your mining private key. Lose it and the rewards are unspendable. Back it up offline, encrypted.

Check the logs. On startup the node prints "Mining rewards will be sent to wormhole address …" — confirm it matches the Address from key generation.

Exiting costs 0.04%. Moving funds out of a wormhole address pays a volume fee (4 bps) — half burned, the rest to the miner of the exit block. High-security reversible transfers cost 1%, fully burned.

Can't find your rewards? You're probably looking at the wrong place: rewards go to the wormhole address, not the preimage string. Query the address on the Block Explorer.

Sources: chain/MINING.md (wormhole section) · docs/reference/tokenomics.md (fee schedule)

🛡 Security Checklist

Straight from the upstream security guidance. Check each item off — progress is saved in your browser.

0 / 8 hardened

🧰 Troubleshooter

The failure modes the docs call out, in the order to check them. Start at the top.

🏊 Pools & Mining Software

Solo mining with the official miner is the default. Third-party pools and miners exist — listed here for completeness, with their fees stated. They are not endorsed; do your own diligence before pointing hashrate at anyone's server.

Software / Pool	Type	Fee	Notes
quantus-miner official	Solo (external miner)	None	From Quantus-Network/quantus-miner. QUIC + TLS pinning to your node; wgpu, CUDA, and CPU engines.
QuanPool	Pool	Check their terms	Endpoint `mainnet.quanpool.com:9834`. Community-run; verify payout terms yourself.
InnovLab	Pool	Check their terms	Endpoint `us.innovlab.cc:17601`. Community-run; verify payout terms yourself.
Fl4shMiner	Third-party miner	1.5% dev fee	Native CUDA kernels for RTX 30/40/50. Tested ~1.14 GH/s on RTX 4090, 458+ MH/s on RTX 3080 Ti.
SRBminer-Multi	Third-party miner	Check their terms	Reported ~765 MH/s on RTX 4080 SUPER (per bytwork). Fee schedule on their site.
HiveOS flight sheets	Farm OS	Varies	Community sheets exist for Quantus on HiveOS; useful for multi-rig farms.

Pool endpoints and third-party performance figures via community guides (bytwork, fl4shminer README, 0xmoei guide). Treat any pool's uptime and payout claims as unverified marketing until you test with small hashrate.

📡 Monitoring

A miner who isn't watching isn't mining. Wire these up on day one.

Node logs

Watch for Imported #… — if block numbers stop climbing, you're stalled.

tail -f ~/.local/share/quantus-node/chains/mainnet/network/quantus-node.log

Prometheus

Node metrics at http://localhost:9615/metrics (override with --prometheus-port). Upstream docs disagree on the default — 9615 in the current mining guide and sc_cli default, 9616 in the older chain/MINING.md table — confirm with quantus-node --help.

Miner metrics

The external miner exposes http://localhost:9900/metrics (override with --metrics-port).

Telemetry

telemetry.quantus.cat — find your --name to confirm the network sees you.

Local RPC

Latest block, straight from your node:

curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"chain_getBlock","params":[]}' http://localhost:9944

Reward watch

Query your wormhole address on the QTC Block Explorer — rewards need no claim step.

Sources: chain/MINING.md (monitoring) · quantus-miner README