When Ethereum switched off its miners, mining lost its home. TanzMine brings it back as a smart contract: commit ETH as hashrate, mine TANZ, and share the protocol's revenue as TanzETH yield. No rigs, no electricity bills, no middleman.
Each block, miners point ETH at 25 seams on the TanzMine lattice. When the block closes, a public random beacon strikes one seam, and the block reward goes to the miners on it.
Pick a strategy (spread across every seam, target the quietest ones, or hunt solo seams) and commit ETH. Your share of a seam is your share of its hashrate. Most of your ETH comes back when the block closes.
One seam strikes. Pool seams split the TANZ reward pro-rata. Solo seams pay the whole block to one miner, weighted by hashrate. The Motherlode jackpot builds every block.
Stake your TANZ to earn real ETH from mining fees (TanzETH yield), plus a share of every claim. The rest of the revenue buys TANZ and burns it.
Everything proof-of-work miners knew, without the hardware.
| Proof-of-work mining | TanzMine |
|---|---|
| Electricity and hardware | The mining fee: 1% of ETH on the struck seam, 10.9% elsewhere (≈10.5% on average) |
| Hashrate | ETH committed to seams each block |
| Block reward and halvings | 1 TANZ per block, halving each time half the remaining supply is mined |
| Pool mining | Pool seams: steady, shared payouts |
| Solo mining | Solo seams: rarer, whole-block payouts |
| Network fees to miners | Protocol revenue to TANZ stakers as TanzETH yield |
Every mining fee flows through a revenue router whose split is fixed in the contract. It can't be changed later, by anyone.
Paid in ETH to TANZ stakers, pro-rata. Stakers also receive a 10% share of every TANZ claim.
Buys TANZ on Uniswap and burns it in the same transaction, permanently shrinking supply.
Funds audits, the keeper network and ongoing development.
Named after tanzanite, a gem found in only one place on Earth. TANZ is just as finite.
A mining protocol is only as good as its randomness and its rules. Both are public and checkable.
Struck seams come from the drand public randomness beacon, and each result is verified on-chain with a BLS signature check. The draw is fixed only after the block closes, and the keeper that delivers it can't choose or change it.
Rewards, fees, supply and the revenue split are immutable. There's no owner who can mint, pause or redirect funds. Claims are pull-based, so the contract never has to loop over miners.