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Mining Rewards

Miners on XPHERE earn from two protocol-level streams:

StreamMiner shareBasis
Minted block reward40%A fixed amount minted every 60 blocks
Transaction fees20%Fees paid by users on every transaction

XPHERE mints new XP on a fixed cadence and distributes it across three recipients; transaction fees are distributed separately across four. There is no separate claim transaction — allocations are credited directly.

Emission & Reduction​

A fixed amount of XP is minted every 60 seconds (every 60 main blocks). The emission decreases by 26.28% per cycle — i.e. it is multiplied by a factor of 0.7372 — every 31,536,000 main blocks (≈ 1 year at the ~1 second block time).

The first reduction has already occurred, so the current emission is 2000 × 0.7372 = 1474.4 XP per 60 seconds.

PeriodReduction Boundary (main block)Emission / 60s
Initial02000 XP
After 1st reduction (current)31,536,0001474.4 XP
After 2nd reduction63,072,000~1086.93 XP
After 3rd reduction94,608,000~801.28 XP

Each successive cycle multiplies the previous emission by 0.7372 (a 26.28% annual reduction). See Whitepaper §5.c for the full 100-year schedule.

Minted Reward Allocation​

Every emission is split across three recipients:

RecipientShareCurrent (per 60s, post-1st-reduction)
Foundation20%294.88 XP
Miner40%589.76 XP
Union40%589.76 XP
  • Miner (40%) is distributed to xpHash miners according to their share of network hashrate.
  • Union (40%) goes to Union validator members — the validator group that records blocks on the Main Chain.
  • Foundation (20%) funds ongoing network operations.

Transaction Fee Allocation​

Transaction fees are distributed separately from minted emission, across four destinations:

DestinationShareWhere it goes
Burn50%Permanently removed from circulation
Union20%Union validator members
Miner20%xpHash Proof Chain miners
Foundation10%Ongoing network operations
Total100%

This is the second half of a miner's income. It is not minted — it comes from fees users already paid, so it scales with network activity rather than with the emission schedule. The same split is documented in Tokenomics.

The Union share is not the same thing as the staking vault

Mining earns you the miner shares (40% of minted rewards, 20% of fees). The Union shares go to Union validator members at the protocol level — that is not a pool product you buy into. Separately, XP holders can stake in the Foundation's XP Union Vault at stake.x-phere.com, a staking service that pays stakers from the real earnings of the Foundation's own Union node and burns the remainder. See Union Staking for the protocol-level economics.

Payout Flow​

Mining is done through a pool, so there are two hops — the protocol's, and the pool's.

  1. Your IceRiver XP0 submits shares to the pool over Stratum.
  2. When the pool seals a valid Proof Chain block, the protocol credits the miner allocation for that reward cycle.
  3. The pool distributes that income among its participants according to their accumulated difficulty contribution, after deducting its fee.
  4. Your balance is queryable on XPScan, the Tamsa Explorer, or via eth_getBalance.

There is no claim transaction at either hop — payouts arrive in your address on the pool's schedule. See Getting Started for the current pool's fee, minimum payout, and distribution interval.

Estimating Your Earnings​

Total mining income is the sum of both streams:

your_income = minted_share + fee_share

Minted share​

This part is predictable, because the emission is fixed for the current cycle. It is proportional to your share of network hashrate:

your_xp_per_60s ≈ (your_hashrate / network_hashrate) × (emission_per_60s × 0.40)

Example, at the current emission (1474.4 XP / 60s) with 1% of network hashrate:

0.01 × (1474.4 × 0.40) ≈ 5.90 XP per 60s ≈ 8,493 XP/day

This is the figure before your pool's fee. At a 1% pool fee, you would receive about 8,493 × 0.99 ≈ 8,408 XP/day of it.

Network and pool hashrate are published on the XPScan mining dashboard and on xppool.io.

Fee share​

Miners additionally receive 20% of transaction fees. This part cannot be projected the same way: it depends on how much the network is actually used. The Foundation has published neither an aggregate fee-volume forecast nor a per-miner fee distribution formula, so no estimate of it should be treated as official.

So read the 8,493 XP/day above as the minted portion only — a floor for the current emission cycle, not a total. Real fee income is observable after the fact: check your address balance on XPScan or the Tamsa Explorer, or query it with eth_getBalance.

caution

These figures are illustrative arithmetic, not a forecast. Emission falls 26.28% each cycle, network hashrate changes continuously, and fee volume is not guaranteed. Nothing here is a projection of revenue or token value.

Tax & Reporting​

The XPHERE Foundation does not issue mining tax forms. Consult your local jurisdiction's rules for cryptocurrency mining income.

See Also​