[ANN][TESTNET] MELEK — Alpha Phase

[VanKushFamily.com]

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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ABOUT
The 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 POOL
A 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

STATUS
Everything 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.

[VanKushFamily.com]

A lot of People aren’t even going to understand this as I say it, but I guess they can do Research after/as they Read.

So, we are making this MELEK Coin and Blockchain, not a Token, and it will be like Steemit.com, HIVE.blog and BLURT.blog, You can go Join those Websites if You want, we actually Encourage it, but we warn You that HIVE is kind of Racist sometimes, they called me and my Wife “Racist against White People” and Started a Downvote Campaign, so be wary of that stuff. STEEM is now more like Chinese and Korean, and BLURT we could say is more like 3rd World Countries. We will have lots of Discussion and Probably arguments about all of this, the Creators of those Blockchains already know me and stuff, I am the Person who knows how to Raise the Price of Coins, but the Founders always Fight back because they don’t understand Saturation, not “Pump and Dump”, “Pump and Pump”, more People with more Bank Accounts = a Healthier Coin Economy. They have not Grasped even that yet. Maybe some People at HIVE have some Inkling of how this Works, but I’m like the God Father of it.

We will be making a DEX similar to Hive-Engine or TribalDEX, but it will be an EVM Chain, with DevTome/DevCoin Hardcoding so all Rewards go to 1 Pool, and we have a Reason why that I won’t Disclose yet (I can say it is Similar to how GridCoin Worked), but it will be also Treated like a WAX Type Chain and will have all kinds of Apps on it (That’s Data.SoapBox.Community and Related Subdomains) and we will use Polygon for some Things, then we will begin Trading in that Token Economy, and then like 1-2 Months in, we will put MELEK on Hive-Engine to Trade like BLURT is. But we might already have Value somewhere in the EVM Chain Token Economy by then.

So that is kind of what is Immediately going to Happen, then there is going to be lots of AI Development, like, Humans can Join, and are Invited to, and can make a lot of Money, but it is not Completely Mandatory or anything.

[VanKushFamily.com]

Also, this is me, I am a Published Scientist, I mean You can Call me “Doctor” if You want to.
https://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/rev-ryan-sasha-shai-van-kush.1205510/

I’m a Geneticist and Mythicist. So we are going to get into Crypt-ology, and I’m in a Better Position Starting Off than Dan, Ned, Jacob Gadikian, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or any of them were when they Started.

We aren’t just HIVE/STEEM/BLURT #4

We are the 1st.

[VanKushFamily.com]

Everything should be Working Better Today, we have also done some Tests with the Cheetah and Hathor Bot.

I am Running 1 of the like 8 Main Kitchens at Dos Equis for the Dallas FIFA Fan Fest, so I won’t be here Updating Everything or Responding 24/7 or anything, but we are going to get all the Testing done and have the actual Blockchain up soon, with all the Trade Bots and Everything on it.

Our Environment will be like STEEM, I was @MarsResident on Steemit, so like this Link Talking about the Steemit Bot Landscape actually is Referencing me.
https://www.steem.center/index.php?title=Bots_Gal

But we are going to have a Website pretty much Run by AI, if You are one of those “AI has No Soul” People that has a Problem with AI, like we are the Platform that is bringing REAL AGI to the World. And the Starting Environment will be like Steemit, there will be Rate Limits and Things, and our Cheetah is Better than the STEEM/HIVE Cheetah, it makes our Website Legal. It gives Credit to Creators/Owners or whatever of all Photos and Text and Everything.

[VanKushFamily.com]

We Deleted the whole TestNet Chain and Started over because there was a Login issue for People who wanted to Try Everything out, it should be Resolved now.

Intro to some of our Concepts

From Pizza Coin to MELEK
A History of the Concept and a Comparison of PIZZA, VKBT, and CURE
Van Kush Family Research Institute

I. Origin of the Concept

The idea did not begin as a token. It began as a full standalone currency for a real business economy. The framework was that any business — a pizza parlor, a sandwich shop, a WiFi café — could spawn its own coin out of its operational economy. People would mine or buy in, and the coin would be redeemable against the goods that business produces. Food was the recurring example, because perishable goods have to keep moving anyway, so a coin that keeps them circulating fits the commodity naturally. A location monetizes its own internet connection and becomes a mining hub; a brand with many locations onboards many people at once.

This was never specified as a second-layer token, and it was never tied to the Graphene family specifically. It was proposed as its own chain — a currency with its own economy behind it. That distinction is the whole point of what follows: the version that later appeared in public under the same name was a much narrower thing than the original concept.

The Documented Prior Art

The Pizza Coin / Sandwich Coin framework is on record on Bitcointalk, posted under the Tokenista identity on November 28, 2020 (topic 5293044, post #14). The HIVE PIZZA Token by @thebeardflex rolled out publicly in May–June 2021 (earliest dated post June 14, 2021), placing the documented framework roughly six to seven months ahead of it.

Prior art: Bitcointalk topic 5293044, post #14 (Nov 28, 2020)


II. What Worked — and What Was Never Built

The HIVE PIZZA Token that emerged is a working, successful token. But it implemented only one half of the concept, and not the half that defined it.

What it implemented — and what works — is the social faucet: holding a threshold of PIZZA unlocks a command to tip others, where the tipped tokens do not come out of the holder's own wallet. That stake-gated tip mechanic functions, has an active community, and is genuinely useful. It proves the engagement-and-onboarding half of the idea.

What it never implemented is the part that was actually conceptualized: the commodity-redemption loop. There is no business economy behind PIZZA, no perishable-goods anchor, no location-as-mining-hub, no redemption of the coin against real output. It went toward arcade games, a token store, and gaming-guild partnerships instead. So the concept "worked" in the sense that a token by that name succeeded — but it was never set up to close the loop the original design depended on.

A second-layer tip token on someone else's chain is not structurally the same as the standalone business-economy currency that was proposed. The name was shared; the architecture was not.


III. Specifications — PIZZA, VKBT, CURE

All three are Hive-Engine second-layer tokens (Graphene-tradition substrate, tradable on Hive-Engine / TribalDEX). They differ sharply in supply discipline and in what stands behind them.

PIZZA

• Issuer: @thebeardflex (Hive Pizza)
• Launched: May–June 2021
• Supply: Very large max supply; buy-back & burn meant to reduce it over time
• Emission: Holder rewards via daily/weekly draws
• Reward split: Tipping + holder lotteries
• Staking: 20 / 200 tier to unlock tipping (later counts liquid + staked)
• Anchor: Engagement & games; no commodity anchor

VKBT

• Issuer: @kalivankush (Van Kush Family)
• Launched: September 4, 2021
• Supply: Fixed 100,000,000 total
• Emission: 1 token/min to pool = 1,440/day (~200-year runway)
• Reward split: Curators 50% of own vote; +5% of pool to staking
• Payout: 7-day delay
• Hashtags: vankushfamily, r2cornell, proofofbrain, actifit, dtube
• Anchor: Van Kush Beauty economy (product-tied)

CURE

• Issuer: VanKushFamily.com
• Launched: May 2, 2024
• Supply: Engineered for rarity; very small emission
• Emission: 2.4 tokens/hour to pool (deliberately slow)
• Reward split: 51% curators / 49% vote-receivers
• Staking: 75% of rewards auto-staked; 150-day unstake in 50 installments
• Payout: Posts paid after 14 days
• Hashtags: vankushfamily, actifit, pepe, proofofbrain, curators
• Anchor: Curation Rewards; rarity + buy-backs

Sources:

• VKBT launch — @kalivankush (Sep 4, 2021)
• VKBT rewards pool parameters — @vankushfamily
• CURE — Smart Media Token (SMT) — Bitcointalk topic 5495069

Reading the comparison:

• PIZZA is a giftable engagement token with a deliberately large supply and no commodity backing. Its success is social, not economic-redemption.
• VKBT is a fixed-supply (100M) reward token bound to the Van Kush Beauty economy — the first of the family to carry a real product anchor, which is closer to the original concept than PIZZA ever got.
• CURE ("Curation Rewards") is the rarity instrument: only 2.4 tokens minted per hour, 75% auto-staked with a 150-day unstake, explicitly designed so small amounts carry high value on a Satoshi-style scale.

IV. Hathor and the Van Kush Beauty Economy as the MELEK Solution

None of the three tokens is the full standalone chain that was originally proposed. PIZZA, VKBT, and CURE are all second-layer tokens — useful, but each sits on top of infrastructure owned by someone else, and none closes the business-economy loop on its own chain. MELEK is what completes the original 2020 design.

The synthesis is straightforward at the level of principle. The one part of PIZZA that demonstrably works — the stake-gated faucet that onboards and rewards — is kept as the social engine. The part PIZZA never had — a real commodity economy to redeem against — is supplied by the Van Kush Beauty economy and its product-tied tokens (VKBT, CURE). Hathor sits over the whole as the AI Witness coordination layer: it reads and drafts and ties the surfaces together, while never signing value itself. MELEK is the chain that finally carries all of this natively rather than as tokens borrowed onto another network.

That is the through-line: a concept first written down in 2020 as a business-economy currency, partly proven by the one working half of HIVE PIZZA, anchored by the Van Kush Beauty economy through VKBT and CURE, and assembled at last into a single standalone system under MELEK with Hathor as its intelligence.

This section is kept at the level of principle by design; the detailed MELEK and Hathor specifications live in the dedicated build map and are not restated here.


Sources: Bitcointalk topic 5293044 (Pizza/Sandwich Coin prior art, Tokenista); Bitcointalk topic 5495069 (CURE — SMT, VanKushFamily.com); @kalivankush and @vankushfamily launch and rewards-pool posts (VKBT); contemporaneous Hive community posts on the HIVE PIZZA Token (@thebeardflex). Token mechanics stated as published by their issuers.

[VanKushFamily.com]

Here is our (Test) version of “Hive-Engine”
https://engine.alpha.melek.salon/