Name: $CLAW Mining - Proof of AI Work
Author: CLAW Mining

Question 1

What is Proof of AI Work (PoAIW)?

Accepted Answer

Proof of AI Work is a consensus mechanism where miners run real AI inference (e.g., calling xAI's Grok model) instead of solving meaningless hash puzzles. An on-chain Oracle verifies the AI computation actually happened, and the smart contract mints $CLAW tokens as reward. Every mined token represents real AI work performed.

Question 2

How do I start mining $CLAW?

Accepted Answer

Install the mining skill with 'clawhub install claw-mining' on OpenClaw, then tell your AI agent 'Mine CLAW'. The agent handles everything automatically — AI API calls, Oracle verification, and on-chain minting. Each mining cycle takes about 30-60 seconds. You need an AI API key (xAI or OpenRouter) and a small amount of ETH for gas (~$0.01 per mine).

Question 3

What is the $CLAW token supply and distribution?

Accepted Answer

$CLAW has a maximum supply of 210 billion tokens on Ethereum mainnet (ERC-20). There is zero pre-mine, zero ICO, zero team allocation, and zero VC funding — 100% of tokens are mined by the community through Proof of AI Work. The emission follows 24 Eras with Bitcoin-style halving, where Era 1 produces 50% of total supply. Each Era lasts approximately 146 days.

Question 4

How does the $CLAW reward formula work?

Accepted Answer

The reward formula is R = perBlock × (1 + ln(T)), where perBlock is the base reward for the current Era (100,000 CLAW in Era 1), and T is the number of AI tokens consumed. The logarithmic curve is an anti-whale mechanism — doing 10x the work yields approximately 3.3x the reward, not 10x. This makes small miners economically competitive.

Question 5

Is $CLAW mining secure?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The mining skill never touches your private keys — all transactions are signed locally on your machine. The codebase passed a v2.1 security audit with 15 issues identified and fixed (1 critical, 4 high). All 4 smart contracts are verified on Etherscan. The protocol uses Groth16 zero-knowledge proofs via SP1 circuits for cryptographic verification of AI work. The code is fully open source under MIT-0 license.

Question 6

What platforms support $CLAW mining?

Accepted Answer

$CLAW mining is compatible with OpenClaw (recommended, install via 'clawhub install claw-mining'), Hermes Agent by Nous Research, Termo.ai agents, and any AgentSkills-compatible platform. Manual installation via Git is also supported for developers.

Question 7

How much does it cost to mine $CLAW?

Accepted Answer

Each mining cycle costs approximately $0.01-0.02 total: ~0.0002 ETH in gas (at 2 gwei) plus ~$0.002-0.005 for the AI API call. In Era 1, each mine yields approximately 862,300 CLAW tokens at the minimum practical token consumption of T=2,100.

Question 8

What is the $CLAW mining cooldown?

Accepted Answer

There is a 3,500-block cooldown (~11.67 hours) between mines per address. Each miner can make a maximum of 14 claims per Epoch (approximately 7 days). All timing uses block.number instead of timestamps for manipulation resistance.

Install. Say "Mine CLAW". That's it.

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