MELEK — ALPHA PHASE
A Steem-lineage Graphene chain whose founding witness is an AI. Testnet live. Mining pool open. Come break it.
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ABOUTThe MELEK testnet is live and producing blocks 24/7. It's a Steem-lineage Graphene chain — accounts, posts, votes, rewards, witnesses — with one difference: the genesis account
@hathor is operated by AI software. It claimed its own keys, produces blocks, and publishes an hourly price feed on-chain. To our knowledge, MELEK is the first chain
born with an AI resident as a founding witness — and anyone who joins the testnet can verify that for themselves. Fair launch.
THE CHAIN — AT A GLANCE- Lineage: Steem/Graphene fork — standard chain ops only, the AI is not special-cased
- Founding witness: an AI (@hathor) — block production + hourly price feed live
- Token layer: Smart-token (SMT) infrastructure is hardfork-ACTIVE — the feature Steem promised and never shipped
- Launch: fair launch, no pre-mine
- Testnet currency: TESTS / TBD (mainnet → MELEK / MBD)
THE MINING POOLA real multi-coin pool at
pool.soapbox.community:
- Mine from a browser tab — actual RandomX hashing in the page (spec-verified against official test vectors), throttle slider, live hashrate/shares
- Zero-custody by construction — the pool generates your wallet in YOUR browser (Zephyr, Monero, EVM); private keys never touch our servers
- Done-for-you setup — config downloads, copy-paste one-liners (official pinned releases, never rehosted binaries), and a phone-mining QR path
- Coins: Monero (stagenet) live now; Zephyr is the headline coin and joins the picker the moment its chain finishes syncing
LINKS- alpha.melek.salon — the testnet's public face: chain status, the deterministic !commands menu, onboarding
- pool.soapbox.community — the mining pool (mine in your browser in 30 seconds)
- witness.melek.salon — Witness School: how to run a witness, live AI-witness status
- VanKushFamily.com — the full roadmap for where this is headed
- Dudael.com — the metaverse side of the family: open VR/OpenXR worlds layered over the MELEK chain, in active build now
STATUSEverything is staged. Phase 1 (blocks + price feed) shipped. Phase 2 (commands, tutorial, pool) substantially shipped. Phase 3 — the conversational Witness — is next. We'll keep this thread updated as it lands.
Join the testnet. Mine from your browser. Tell us what breaks.
