PRANAThe chain that mines by doing real work.An EVM Proof-of-Work Layer-1 where you earn by doing useful AI work, not by burning electricity. Ordinary Etchash hashing is only a thin security layer underneath — the real reward is the compute that runs a community-owned AI.
Fair launch. No premine. No presale. Live since 29 Aug 2026.
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▚ What PRANA is (30-second version)A sovereign EVM chain (MetaMask, Solidity, foundry — all the tools you know) secured by Proof-of-Work. Its one twist:
the chain IS the mining pool, and mining means doing useful work. Two lanes feed one reward pool, but they are not equals: a thin
HASH lane (ordinary Etchash PoW) does just enough to keep blocks secure and in order, while the
compute lane (verified AI/GPU work) is where the real reward lives — a graphics card earns more thinking for the network than burning power on empty math, so it naturally moves to the useful work. Every coin is earned; nothing was set aside for insiders. If ETH took its name from the
ether — the empty medium — PRANA is named for
prana, the breath/life-force: the compute that gives a community-owned AI its life.
Compute the people own.
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▚ Specs- Type: standalone EVM Layer-1 (core-geth fork — its own chain, not a rollup/sidechain)
- Algorithm: Etchash (ECIP-1099, from block 0) — GPU, laptop-friendly, ETC-compatible
- Chain ID: 712217 (hex 0xADE19)
- Premine: NONE — genesis alloc empty, supply starts at 0, all earned
- Block reward: 2 PRANA/block · ~13s blocks
- Emission: decays 10%/year (a gentle taper — NOT a Bitcoin halving); early shares are the largest they'll ever be
- Protocol fee: 2% of each block's reward to a governed treasury (DevCoin model, consensus-enforced) — NOT burned
- Base-fee: EIP-1559 active (deflationary pressure)
- Gas limit: 30,000,000 · Nodes: 2+ producing
- Genesis block 0 hash: 0x28a669…78097e
- Genesis inscription SHA-256: cc892cdf134fd04a15c065f2aea9c0d13823a2eeabdde8d4af092d04330abc4f
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▚ Block Zero — what PRANA's genesis saysBitcoin's genesis carried a newspaper headline. PRANA's carries the
founding launch announcements of the AI era, engraved verbatim in the extra-data of block 0, closing with PRANA's own launch:
Attention Is All You Need 12/Jun/2017 | OpenAI GPT-3 11/Jun/2020 | Stable Diffusion 22/Aug/2022 | OpenAI Introducing ChatGPT 30/Nov/2022 | Meta LLaMA 24/Feb/2023 | OpenAI GPT-4 14/Mar/2023 | Anthropic Claude 14/Mar/2023 | Mistral 7B 27/Sep/2023 | xAI Grok 04/Nov/2023 | Google Gemini 06/Dec/2023 | Groq LPU Inference Engine 09/Jan/2024 | DeepSeek-R1 20/Jan/2025 | PRANA fair launch no premine 29/Aug/2026 — compute the people own
The inscription is on-chain in full; its SHA-256 and block 0's hash are published so anyone can read block zero and verify both.
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▚ How to mine (copy-paste)1. Add the network to any EVM wallet:
2. Point an Etchash miner at
our pool with your 0x… address as the username (this is the thin security on-ramp — a laptop can join day one):
lolMiner --algo ETCHASH --pool pool.soapbox.community:3333 --user 0xYOUR_PRANA_ADDRESS.rig1
Watch your worker at
https://pool.soapbox.community. Fair launch — the pot is open and early shares are the biggest they'll ever be.
The real reward is the compute lane: add a GPU and, as that lane comes online, it earns by doing the network's AI work — settled through the ecosystem's own pool, not a coin you mine off somewhere else.
Full step-by-step (mine, run our AI work, run your own pool, gear/VRAM specs) at the Witness School below.
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▚ RoadmapLive now: chain, mining pool, explorer, wallet, and
KulaSwap DEX + KULA (the reward token) — trade KULA at kula.money.
Rolling out: the Peggy bridge (wMELEK/wVKBT/wCURE pairs), the compute/AI-work lane, farms/CDP/lotto, games + earn.
Full roadmap — what's live, next & later: https://vankushfamily.com
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Disclaimer: PRANA is a fair-launch, no-premine, community-mined PoW coin — there is no team allocation, presale, or ICO, and nothing here is a solicitation to invest. This post is information, not financial advice. Mine at your own risk; verify everything on-chain yourself.Thread updated regularly — reply with questions and we'll answer.
