SqueekchainLink to this section

Squeekchain connects a physical hamster wheel with a mining economy on Ethereum. The Hamster Miner records wheel activity, and accepted work becomes part of a record on Ethereum. Squeek Miner NFTs earn SQK linked to that work, and their owners can direct a share of those rewards to fund SqueekFi projects.

You can follow the wheel and explore the public data without a wallet or an NFT. If you're interested in owning a Miner, these docs explain how mining power, merging, and rewards fit together.

Explore the projectLink to this section

Start here Get to know the device, the digital Miners, and the connection between them.
Miner NFTs Understand what you own, how levels work, and what changes when you merge or transfer a Miner.
SQK and rewards Learn where rewards come from, when they're ready, and how you claim them.
SqueekFi Explore hamster-powered onchain finance and how Miner owners can fund projects with a share of their SQK rewards.
Security and trust Understand what the records can prove, who has control, and what can go wrong.
Developers Build with the public API, read contracts, or integrate owner transactions.

How the wheel connects to rewardsLink to this section

A sensor detects a magnet passing as the wheel moves. The device checks those readings and saves accepted passages as work. Services then check the records before submitting that work to Ethereum.

Recording work and paying rewards are separate steps. The reward system uses completed Squeek blocks to fund SQK for eligible Miners, and owners claim their available share to a wallet. Owning more mining power can increase your share.

How it works follows the steps from a sensor reading to a reward claim.

Following the numbersLink to this section

The wheel, Ethereum record, and available rewards don't all update at once. A delay between them is not necessarily a fault, and missing data doesn't mean that no work happened. See Why the numbers don't always match when you want to understand a particular total.

The sensor records accepted magnet passages—not which animal moved the wheel or why. Video is a separate way to observe the device, not proof that work was counted. What the system proves explains those limits.

Records verified work and tracks settled rounds and Squeek blocks on Ethereum. Calculates rewards from settled work, holds funded SQK, and pays eligible NFT owners. The Miner ERC-721 contract. Tracks NFT ownership and coordinates minting and merges with Mining. Applies Core or Mining upgrades authorized by its governing Timelock. Generates Miner NFT artwork from fixed onchain visual data. Queues governance operations and enforces a delay before they can be executed. The SQK ERC-20 contract. Enforces the lifetime supply cap; only Mining can mint SQK. Checks that visual data conforms to the required DotGrid format. When new mining power starts earning. Minting and merging schedule it for a later round, and a checkpoint must process the change. A reward update that processes settled work and scheduled mining-power changes. It can make rewards available but doesn't pay them to an owner's wallet. The Miner NFT permanently burned in a merge. Its unclaimed rewards move to the survivor, but its image is not combined or kept. SQK issued under the mining reward rules. You can direct a share of your Miner's rewards to fund SqueekFi projects. The physical mining device that records accepted wheel-magnet passages as work. It is separate from the virtual Miner NFTs. Squeekchain's record of accepted wheel-magnet passages. It doesn't prove animal identity and isn't how Ethereum reaches consensus. Combining two eligible same-level Miners you own into one higher-level Miner. One NFT is permanently burned; the survivor keeps both Miners' unclaimed rewards. The completed Squeek blocks a Miner must wait through before merging. It measures completed work, not elapsed time or Ethereum blocks; transfers don't reset it. The power used to calculate a Miner's share of rewards when eligible and active. A larger share of total power can mean a larger share of rewards. A ten-minute period used to group measured work. The device saves a completed round's work total when measurement remained uninterrupted. The transferable token used for mining rewards. It has a lifetime supply cap and is separate from the Miner NFT and the device's work count. A completed amount of settled work. Enough recorded work completes one Squeek block; it is not an Ethereum block. Squeek Miner NFTs earn SQK linked to recorded wheel activity. Owners can direct a share of those rewards to fund SqueekFi projects. Squeekchain's ecosystem for hamster-powered onchain finance. Miner owners can choose to fund projects with a share of their SQK rewards. The Miner NFT you keep in a merge. It gains a level, keeps its ID and image, and receives both Miners' unclaimed rewards. A Miner's recorded reward balance that hasn't been paid to a wallet. It stays with the NFT when ownership changes. One wheel-magnet passage that met the device's counting rules and was saved. It records work, not an amount of SQK.