Mint a ForgeMiner ZKP-369 NFT — your identity and storage anchor. Burning 500 SFD claims a Tier-3 license and opens validator participation, proofs, and rewards.
Live application state and user actions are enforced by the Express service and its PostgreSQL database. The Solidity contracts deployed to Sepolia are reference implementations, not the live runtime execution path.
Minting a ForgeMinerNFT burns 500 ZKP-216 SFD from your wallet balance and creates a Tier-3 infrastructure license anchored to your address. The mint is atomic: SFD is debited, the NFT row is created, and initial storage chunk assignments are recorded in a single database transaction. Each wallet can hold multiple ForgeMiner licenses. The mint page requires a connected EVM wallet and a sufficient SFD balance.
A Tier-3 ForgeMinerNFT immediately unlocks validator registration, Proof-of-Space-Time storage challenges, Proof-of-Space-Time streak rewards, and Proof-of-Stake participation. Higher tiers (Tier 6 and Tier 9) are unlocked through the Ascension burn mechanism and expand validator authority, storage capacity, and reward multipliers. DAO governance access and voting weight remain determined by ZKP-432 Resonance, not ForgeMiner tier — though the added activities a higher tier unlocks can help a participant earn more Resonance over time. The license is your identity anchor across the entire Forge Ecosystem.
Each ForgeMiner NFT is assigned 1,024 storage chunks representing 1 TB (1,024 × 1 GB). A Poseidon Merkle tree records the cryptographic commitment for each chunk. Periodic Proof-of-Space-Time challenges select one or more chunks and require the operator to submit a valid Merkle proof within 369 blocks. Consistent proof submission builds a streak that increases reward multipliers.