# Ore
**Ore is a digital currency you can mine from anywhere, at home or on your phone.** It uses a novel proof-of-work algorithm to guarantee no miner can ever be starved out from earning rewards.
## How it works
The primary innovation of Ore is to offer non-exclusive mining rewards. This means one miner finding a valid solution does not prevent another miner from finding one as well. Rather than setting up every miner in a winner-take-all competition against one another, Ore gives each miner a personalized computational challenge. As long as a miner provides a valid solution to their own individual challenge, the protocol guarantees they will earn a piece of the supply. Since no miner can be censored from the network and valid solutions are non-exclusive, starvation is avoided.
## Supply
Ore is designed to protect holders from runaway supply inflation. Regardless of how many miners are active in the world, supply growth is strictly bounded to a rate of `0 ≤ R ≤ 2 ORE/min`. In other words, linear. The mining reward rate – amount paid out to miners per valid solution – is dynamically adjusted every 60 seconds to maintain an average supply growth of `1 ORE/min`. This level was chosen for its straightforward simplicity, scale agnosticism, and for striking a balance between the extremes of exponential inflation on one hand and stagnant deflation on the other.
## Program
- [`Consts`](src/consts.rs) – Program constants.
- [`Entrypoint`](src/lib.rs) – The program entrypoint.
- [`Errors`](src/error.rs) – Custom program errors.
- [`Idl`](idl/ore.json) – Interface for clients, explorers, and programs.
- [`Instruction`](src/instruction.rs) – Declared instructions and arguments.
- [`Loaders`](src/loaders.rs) – Validation logic for loading Solana accounts.
## Instructions
- [`Initialize`](src/processor/initialize.rs) – Initializes the Ore program, creating the bus, mint, and treasury accounts.
- [`Reset`](src/processor/reset.rs) – Resets the program for a new epoch.
- [`Register`](src/processor/register.rs) – Creates a new proof account for a prospective miner.
- [`Mine`](src/processor/mine.rs) – Verifies a hash provided by a miner and issues claimable rewards.
- [`Claim`](src/processor/claim.rs) – Distributes claimable rewards as tokens from the treasury to a miner.
- [`UpdateAdmin`](src/processor/update_admin.rs) – Updates the admin authority.
- [`UpdateDifficulty`](src/processor/update_difficulty.rs) - Updates the hashing difficulty.
## State
- [`Bus`](src/state/bus.rs) - An account (8 total) which tracks and limits the amount mined rewards each epoch.
- [`Proof`](src/state/proof.rs) - An account (1 per miner) which tracks a miner's hash, claimable rewards, and lifetime stats.
- [`Treasury`](src/state/treasury.rs) – A singleton account which manages program-wide variables and authorities.
## Tests
To run the test suite, use the Solana toolchain:
```
cargo test-sbf
```
For line coverage, use llvm-cov:
```
cargo llvm-cov
```