50% / block
Mining (Proof-of-Work)
Find blocks through Proof-of-Work and receive 50% of each block's reward — the newly minted VAR coins plus the transaction fees from every transaction in the block.
Participate
Earn from the network
Monetarium is decentralised: anyone can earn from the network by mining blocks, or running a node and staking Varta (VAR) — sharing in block rewards and the transaction-fee flow of the economies it powers.
How you earn
Where the rewards come from
Other 50%
Running a node (Proof-of-Stake)
Run a Monetarium network node and stake VAR coins. Nodes share the other 50% of every block reward in proportion to the VAR they stake — VAR coins function as shares in the network.
% of flow
Income from the monetary flow
Because rewards include transaction fees from every VAR and SKA transfer, participants earn a percentage of the monetary flow of national economies that use Monetarium — much like a payment network such as VISA, but decentralised and open to anyone.
Two ways in
Mine with Proof-of-Work, or buy VAR coins and run a node under Proof-of-Stake — no permission required.
Rewards scale with usage
Earnings grow with the monetary flow of every national system on the network — not with new issuance of national money, since each SKA supply is fixed.
A buyback campaign for miners
We buy back part of the miner's reward for blocks mined inside a published range. The terms, the dates and the claim form are on one page.
Open the campaignGet started
Run a Node
Run a full Monetarium node (hybrid PoW/PoS) and participate in mining, staking, and governance. Four steps below: check the requirements, run the one-line installer, confirm the node is running, and add a GPU miner.
Check your system meets the requirements
A modern multi-core machine with room to grow the chain.
CPU
4+ cores
RAM
2 GB
Storage
8 GB
Run the one-line install
Pick the command for your platform and paste it into a terminal.
Linux / macOScurl
Linux / macOSwget
WindowsPowerShell
Each command downloads and runs the official installer from the Monetarium GitHub(opens in new tab).
Check the node is running
One command reports the node's health.
All platformsgetinfo
Expect a block height, a connection count above zero, and an empty errors field. Verification, logs and troubleshooting for Linux and macOS are covered in the Quick Start guide(opens in new tab).
Install a GPU miner
Linux onlyMine on the node you just installed. A solo stratum pool passes the node's work to a GPU miner and sends the blocks it solves back to the node.
GPU
Any with an OpenCL driver
System
Linux
Build tools
Go 1.23+, g++, make
04.1
Check CPU mining is off
The node serves no work while it mines by itself. If you answered Yes to CPU mining in step 02, set generate=false in ~/.monetarium/monetarium.conf and restart the node.
Linuxgetgenerate
Expect false.
04.2
Build the pool and the miner
Linuxgit
04.3
Point the pool at your node
The pool logs in with the node's RPC user and password. This command copies them from the node's config into a file only you can read, and lets only this machine connect to the pool.
Linuxconfig
04.4
Start the pool, then a miner for each card
Run each in its own terminal, from the monetarium-stratum folder.
Linuxpool
Linuxminer
The miner lists your cards by number when it starts. For a second card, start another miner with --user worker1 --device 1. Services, CUDA and the pool's settings are covered in the monetarium-stratum README(opens in new tab).
Video walkthrough
The whole install, on video
The first three steps above, recorded end to end on a fresh Ubuntu server — the install script, the questions it asks, and the first healthy node. Open a chapter to start there.
Watch on YouTube(opens in new tab)26:13 · 14 chapters
Installing
Using your node and wallet
Node resources
Start hereQuick Start Guide (opens in new tab)Install, verify, and troubleshoot your first node.Block Explorer (opens in new tab)Browse blocks, transactions, and node activity.Voting Service Provider (opens in new tab)Stake without needing to keep your wallet online.Node source (opens in new tab)Full node software and releases on GitHub.Community Chat (opens in new tab)Join the Telegram community for questions and project discussions.Documentation (opens in new tab)Setup, staking, and governance guides.