THE MINING GAME
Introduction
Mining game is a Free 2 play, Play 2 Earn and Learn 2 Earn crypto mining simulator game centered around the history of cryptocurrencies, replacing power-hungry mining hardware with NFTs.
WATT v1 (old WATT contracts)
The Crypto Mining Game’s v1 contract address to the emissions token contract on Polygon is WATT v1, which had its genesis block on May 1st, 2022 when 300,000 WATT were minted into existence from the Mining Game Deployer contract; WATT v1 is the contract on Altcoinchain. The Mining Game Started as an idea for the world to learn about mining cryptocurrency using the Proof of Work consensus, only without the requirements of costly computer hardware and electricity.
WATT v2 (current WATT contracts)
WATT v2 on Polygon and WATT v2 on Altcoinchain are the current contracts for the 3D interactive mining game. WATT v1 can be purchased and migrated for WATT v2 at the WATT v1 to V2 migration dApp. The current contract has crosschain swap features where tokens are taken out of circulation on one chain when bridged to another chain, and WATT is also used as energy in mining with NFT mining rig configurations in the mining game while mining real hybrid PoW/PoS blockchains through validators nodes that act as a stratum mining pool which pays out to miners on chain.
Project Overview
The Mining Game Features 3D designed NFT art, representing computer hardware components with varying performance specs written into the code of their contract, which earn WATT when staked, with a halving of earnings to occur every 365 days. Mining Game hardware NFTs may be farmed within a mining rig configuration contract while using WATT to power the rigs at a daily rate according to their configuration in exchange for payouts in the Mining Game’s PoW coins, according to their virtual hardware input. WATT tokens used in mining are burned to the burn address (0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD) when earnings are claimed from the mining contract. When their WATT balance for a mining rig reaches 0, the mining rig configuration will no longer earn PoW coins as if it were powered off. The miner may purchase more WATT and deposit it into the mining contract with their rig configuration to keep the rig mining or they may select to stake some or all of their hardware to earn more WATT, which they may claim daily. Alternatively, the miner could choose to host a mining pool on a local machine or VPS, which will enable their mining rig configuration to consume 0 WATT.
Users with excess WATT may sell to the market or hold for later use or even add it to and remove it from a liquidity pool of their choice. With WATT being at the center of the Mining Game economy, it will help decentralize actual PoW at-home miner's power costs if they also have a stake in The Mining Game. Users could sell their profits and re-invest back into their own costs for hardware mining.
Tokenomics and Economic Model
The mining game started with a FREE MINT GAMING PC NFT and 300,000 WATT minted into supply and a GENESIS BADGE to all testnet junkies. Each NFT component has a variable WATT emission rate for staking and halving every year. New hardware NFTs and mining configurations will be added annually. Miners will earn their share based off of hardware input / network hashrate while their hardware drains WATT from the mining contract which is deposited to the burn address when mining rewards are claimed.
When newer more efficient hardware NFTs are released and used, the network difficulty will increase, making the older versions less profitable per block.
With the ongoing need for miners to burn WATT to run their mining rig configurations, the demand for WATT will increase. However, supply of WATT is only created when NFT hardware components are locked in a staking contract, where the Mining Game Deployer contract will mint new WATT into circulation.
Security Measures
The Mining Game's contracts are secured by both Polygon and Altcoinchain blockchains using the interface of the ERC165 standard. The PoW coin is secured by mining pool operators hosting nodes in exchange for 0 WATT mining costs in the Mining Game and Mining Game NFT miner configurations powered by burning WATT in accordance with NFT mining rig configurations. Effectively 66% of mining rewards for the Mining Game PoW coin will be distributed to miners in the Mining Game with mining rig configurations and 33% will be distributed amongst the mining pools with users hosting nodes connecting their Altcoinchain wallet to the node of the PoW coin will receive 1% of the block reward divided amongst the CPU miners on the network.
This will prevent a 51% attack on the network while also decentralizing both the Altcoinchain blockchain and the Mining Game PoW coin by encouraging users to host nodes and mining pools for a percent of the miner rewards payout with the ability to bridge assets cross-chain within their node or via a decentralized application.
Mining Game pool operators will be required to have 100,000 WATT staked and locked into a DAO contract before they may host their pool and earn their stake in the mining rewards payout. The liquidity pool will mint a new Mining Game DAO token for each 100,000 WATT deposited, in which a contract will split the 33% of the block reward evenly between mining pool hosts via Mining Game Pool-DAO tokens according to their share in the DAO, divided by the amount of the DAO other pool operators hold in the staking pool for their contribution decentralizing mining pools of the blockchain(s).
*Altcoinchain does not use Infura or Moralis, which record user data such as i.p. and location. All on-chain transactions are transparent.
Gameplay and User Experience
Participants are incentivised for participation within the protocol for staking their NFTs to earn WATT, for running mining rig configurations with their NFTs in exchange for the PoW coin, for hosting nodes to secure both of the blockchains and the option to support the cross-chain bridge mechanism via hosting a node, which has an amount of coin and wrapped token locked into liquidity for real-time bridging between wrapped tokenized versions and native blockchain coins, at a fee set by the holder. The value of tokens in the protocol and the PoW coins produced by miners is purely speculative, depending on supply and demand of the markets.
Roadmap and Future Developments
The original roadmap was published in 2022 as four phases running from Q2 2022 to Q1 2023. Phase 1 shipped essentially in full and Phase 2 in part — the last public version of that page, captured in December 2022, put Phase 1 at 96%, Phase 2 at 10%, Phase 3 at 2% and Phase 4 at 0%. The remaining phases stalled when development paused through 2023 and 2024 following the illness and passing of the project's lead developer. Work resumed in 2025, and everything the original roadmap set out has since been built — in most cases considerably beyond what was scoped. What follows is the original roadmap with its real outcome, and then the work that has landed since. Dates given are the dates the work shipped, not projections.
- Twitter account and Discord server
- Free Gaming PC NFT, Genesis Badge and the first upgrade components designed
- NFT contract deployed and tested on testnet, then migrated to Polygon mainnet
- Website designed and deployed — mining.game ran from 2022 until the domain was retired; the game, the staking dApp and this paper now live on mining-game.wattxchange.app
- NFT launch — free mint and sale
- Presence established in the marketplaces
- WATT token deployed; 300,000 WATT minted from the Mining Game Deployer on 1 May 2022
- NFT staking contract and UI, WATT staking, and WATT–MATIC LP staking
- Further component NFTs designed — the Kirtex XL1 CPU, MAD GP50 GPU, Oblivia TX120 GPU and the rest of the generation-one catalogue
- Explore multichain — the full NFT, WATT and staking stack was deployed to Altcoinchain alongside Polygon
- Blueprint NFTs and the blueprint minting contract — deferred
- Marketplace and public listing — deferred
- Minting game for RigParts — superseded by the in-game shop and workbench delivered in Phase 8, which mint and assemble the parts directly
- Minting game for MiningGameJumper — not delivered
- WATT-DAO — deferred, see Community Engagement and Feedback
- Learn 2 Earn — deferred
These phases were not delivered on the original timeline. Every goal in them was carried forward and has since been met or superseded by the work in Phases 5 to 8.
- Deploy and test the PoW token on testnet — delivered as the WATTx blockchain (Phase 6)
- Deploy and test the mining contract on testnet — delivered as the on-chain pool registry, payout hub and node mining engine (Phase 7)
- Develop the game UI — delivered as the 3D game (Phase 8)
- Game launch — the 3D Mining Game is live (Phase 8)
- Conceptualise mining pools — built and running (Phase 7)
- Conceptualise metaverse integration — the 3D game shipped; the shared multiplayer lounge is in development
- Migrate the PoW token and mining to mainnet — WATTx mainnet is live, and the pool network mines it (Phases 6 and 7)
- Implement Learn 2 Earn — still outstanding, carried into Phase 9
- Migrate Blueprint minting to mainnet — still outstanding, carried into Phase 9
2023 – 2024 — development paused. The contracts stayed live and staking kept paying out throughout, but no new work shipped in this period.
- WATT v2 deployed on Polygon and Altcoinchain, replacing v1 as the live game token
- A v1 → v2 migration dApp, open to anyone holding or buying v1
- Cross-chain WATT: supply is taken out of circulation on the source chain and reissued on the destination chain, so one supply spans every chain
- Altcoinchain infrastructure rebuilt and hosted — public RPC, block explorer and a bridge desk
- SwapinDEX liquidity on Altcoinchain, including wrapped mainnet coins paired against WATT
- The WATTxchange dApp — wallet, DEX, bridge, explorer, pool hub, validators and the Mining Game in one interface
The roadmap's “deploy the PoW token and mining contract” became a blockchain in its own right rather than a token on someone else's chain. The PoW coin this paper refers to throughout is WATTx (WTX), and its mainnet is live.
- WATTx Core — a hybrid Proof-of-Work / Proof-of-Stake chain carrying an EVM layer, so game contracts can live on the same chain the miners secure
- Mainnet launched and running, with a public RPC and a block explorer
- Fair launch, no premine — Proof-of-Work alone to block 5,000, hybrid Proof-of-Work / Proof-of-Stake from there
- 50 WATTx per block on a 120-second target, halving every 210,000 blocks toward a 21,000,000 cap
- X25X multi-algorithm mining active on mainnet since block 2,000 — SHA256d, Scrypt, Ethash, Equihash, X11 and kHeavyHash, each with its own difficulty, so any class of hardware and any Mining Game rig configuration has an algorithm to point at
- Proof-of-Stake difficulty and block-reward corrections shipped as a hard fork; validators stake from 20,000 WATTx
- Privacy layer built and released May 2026 — ring signatures, stealth addresses, confidential transactions and full-chain membership proofs, with view keys and anonymous send and receive in the wallet
- RandomX and the privacy layer activate on mainnet at block 210,000, with shielded block rewards from block 210,100
- Open source at github.com/WATTxChain, with tagged releases — v0.1.7.7 (August 2026) ships Linux, Windows and Android wallet builds
- AuxPoW merged mining: a single share can land a block on a parent chain and a WATTx block at the same time, so a miner earns on both
- All seven algorithms proven dual-earning against real parent daemons in July 2026 — Bitcoin (SHA256d), Litecoin (Scrypt), Monero (RandomX), Dash (X11), Altcoinchain (Ethash), BitcoinZ (Equihash) and Kaspa (kHeavyHash)
- A stratum server speaking the Bitcoin, XMRig, Ethash and Zcash wire protocols, with a payout-split coinbase that divides each block reward among the contributing miners by share
- Public mining pool live at pools.wattxchange.app
- On-chain pool registry, payout hub and node mining engine deployed on Altcoinchain — a host locks 100,000 WATT to register a pool, exactly as set out in Security Measures
- Distribution of the operators' share through the Pool-DAO token — in progress
- The 3D Mining Game is live in the browser and installable as an app
- Build a rig from the real hardware NFTs — cases, CPUs, GPUs, ASICs and the Server Tower — at a workbench, with overclocking, heat and wear
- LIVE mode mirrors the NFTs held in your wallet into the 3D garage, one rig per NFT, scaling from desks to shipping containers to a warehouse as the farm grows
- An in-game operating system: wallet, DEX, pool hub and miner, plus a payout wallet that derives an address for every supported coin from a single seed phrase
- Staking dApp for NFT staking, WATT claims and the v1 to v2 migration
- Shared multiplayer lounge — in development
- WATT-DAO governance and the proposal forum described in Community Engagement and Feedback
- Learn 2 Earn — the original goal, carried forward
- Marketplace with public listing, and the Blueprint NFTs
- Exchange and data-aggregator listings for WATT
- RandomX and the privacy layer activating on WATTx mainnet at block 210,000
- Wider seed-node coverage and miner onboarding onto the public pool
- Cross-chain privacy pools for shielded transfers between chains
- A new generation of hardware NFTs each year, raising network difficulty as the design always intended
Note: goals are approximations. The roadmap is subject to change, especially the timeframe of these goals.
Community Engagement and Feedback
In an effort to decentralize decision making within the protocol, WATT-DAO will act as the voting mechanism within the Mining Game forum. Users with WATT staked in the DAO will have influence on future community voting power. Within the forum, DAO members may offer suggestions and/or improvements within the Mining Game ecosystem in an effort to further improve decentralization by voting with their stake using DAO tokens. DAO tokens are able to be be minted at a ratio of 100 WATT to 1 WATT-DAO, in which 100 WATT is burned with the WATT-DAO token each time a vote is cast and at a rate of 1,000 WATT for 10 WATT-DAO for the Mining Game Forum proposals.
WATT-DAO proposals may have specific criteria to be met, according to the proposer’s specifications, before voting is finalized.
Within the WATT-DAO forum, stakeholders may provide feedback, which may be upvoted/downvoted for the cost of 0.01 WATT-DAO token. This method will provide value to user feedback in an effort to thwart unnecessary posting or spam within the community.
References
Contract addresses:
Polygon WATT v1 contract address: 0xe960d5076cd3169c343ee287a2c3380a222e5839
Altcoinchain WATT v1 contract address: 0x6645143e49B3a15d8F205658903a55E520444698
Polygon WATT v2 contract address: 0x387693ecec037c61943404f03c097d2ada15ae3f
Altcoinchain WATT v2 contract address: 0xb7635e386283cae6fb1a710f19caa8220bef630d
WATTx (WTX) block explorer: wtx-exp.wattxchange.app
Altcoinchain block explorer: alt-exp.wattxchange.app
The Mining Game Roadmap (published on mining.game in 2022; superseded by the roadmap in this document)
Mining Game Forum — the original forum.mining.game is retired; the WATT-DAO forum that replaces it is described under Community Engagement and Feedback.
Mining Game F.A.Q. (mining.game, archived)