[ANN] Grox (GROX) | Fair CPU solo mining | RandomX | 1-min blocks

Why Grox

Remember solo mining on your own PC and actually finding blocks? Grox brings that back.
It is a private coin built on the Monero codebase with its own RandomX variant, so it runs on ordinary CPUs and existing Monero hashrate cannot be pointed at it.
No pools needed, no rigs, no farms: install the wallet, press Start mining, and your computer competes for every block on its own.

The network is live and young: blocks every minute, a handful of miners, real rewards for every CPU that joins now.

Specifications

Ticker	GROX
Proof of work	RandomX v2, Grox variant (CPU). Stock Monero miners do not work on Grox.
Block time	1 minute
Max supply	21,000,000 GROX, hard cap, no tail emission
Block reward	~4.75 GROX now, smoothly decreasing over the years
Mined coins unlock	after 60 blocks (~1 hour)
Premine	5% (1,050,000 GROX) in block 2, disclosed below
Dev fund	5% of every block reward, enforced by consensus
Privacy	Monero technology: stealth addresses, ring signatures (16), RingCT
Addresses	start with G
Ports	P2P 19880, RPC 19881
License	BSD-3-Clause, fully open source

Start mining in 3 steps

Windows
1. Download GroxWallet-Setup-1.2.2-win-x64.exe from the latest release (a portable .zip is there too).
2. Open Grox Wallet and create a wallet. Write your 25 words on paper.
3. Press Start mining. Wallet, node and miner run in one window.

Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04, or WSL)

Code:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahafarag/grox-coin/main/install.sh | bash
~/grox/start.sh     # then open http://localhost:8790

Command line

Code:

~/grox/bin/groxd --start-mining <your G... address> --mining-threads 4

Every release is built in public by GitHub Actions from the repository code and ships with a SHA256 checksum. The installer checks it for you.
Full guides: English | Arabic

Network upgrade at block 12,000: run v1.2.0 or newer (latest is 1.2.2). Older versions stop following the network at that block.

Premine and dev fund: full transparency

Block 2 paid the 5% premine (1,050,000 GROX) to the developer. Every block pays 5% of its reward to the dev fund. Both are consensus rules checked by every node; see src/cryptonote_core/grox_dev_fund_address.cpp.
Community reserve: 100,000 GROX moved from the premine to the public dev fund wallet for bounties and contests (XMRig support, ARM builds, translations, tools). Transaction, block 4,211.
From block 12,000 the 5% dev fund goes to this dedicated wallet. Its view key is public, so anyone can audit every coin it receives (a view key can only see, never spend):

Code:

Address:  GDGSHJXsxp8Y3EnLmGMnMcjLs5Qry6H5vibokRCFxKzNbZkggGkNYjd4iHwoMcJkuQKrsVN1Yt7mQY9s6AM5KVaZFLaUw5Y
View key: bb0dd5b0061a6c00f23586a5f11c6b08dbd557369137240449d990c89fe59f02
Restore height: 4200

Coming next

XMRig support for the Grox RandomX variant (open bounty from the community reserve)
More seed nodes and community tools

Developers who want to help: open an issue or say hi in GitHub Discussions.

Official links (the only ones)

Grox has NO official website. Any "grox" domain (.com, .org, .net, .io or any other) is fake. Download only from GitHub. Admins never DM you first and never ask for your 25 words.

Code and downloads: https://github.com/ahafarag/grox-coin
Grox page (GitHub Pages): https://ahafarag.github.io/grox-coin/
Block explorer: https://d7vz9sqd109ta.cloudfront.net
Discord: https://discord.gg/V5PaU3SSY
Telegram group: @grox_community | news: @grox_coin | stats bot: @grox_coin_bot

Grox is open-source software provided "as is", without warranty. Use at your own risk; nothing here is financial advice. Full disclaimer. Built on the Monero and RandomX codebases, with thanks to their developers.