A server-enforced ForgeMiner storage identity across Tiers 3, 6, and 9 that gates validator participation and application-ledger 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.
ForgeMiner identities come in three application tiers. Tier 3 is purchased for 500 test-network SFD and unlocks validator participation and storage challenges. Tier 6 and Tier 9 use server-enforced ascension burns; Tier 9 additionally requires a ZKP-432 Resonance score of 432. These records are not live-contract NFTs.
ForgeMiner NFT holders can register as validators in the live application runtime. Validators submit heartbeat proofs at regular intervals and answer Proof-of-Space-Time challenges that verify storage commitments using a Poseidon Merkle tree. Missed proofs accumulate strikes; three strikes trigger ejection via the server-enforced slash mechanism at runtime block checkpoints. Active validators earn ZKP-216 SFD rewards recorded through the application reward routing system.
Each ForgeMiner record commits to 1,024 deterministic application storage chunks. The runtime issues periodic Proof-of-Space-Time challenges that validators answer with a Merkle witness and a client-generated proof. Groth16 and Schnorr verification exercise the application proof path; this does not prove physical storage capacity or a validated proof pod.
Tier upgrades are executed through the Ascension mechanism on the Harmonic Ascension page. The burn is atomic and single-shot: the NFT row is locked, the current tier is validated against the expected source tier, and the SFD debit and tier upgrade are committed in a single database transaction. Concurrent upgrade attempts on the same NFT return HTTP 409. Tier 9 additionally requires a ZKP-432 Resonance score of at least 432 before the burn is accepted.