Protocol Overview
Smelted supports two Solana mining protocols. Each is a standalone on-chain program with its own token, reward mechanics, and community. Both use the same core 5x5 grid mining model where miners deploy SOL to tiles and a winning tile is selected on-chain.
ORE
ORE is the original mining protocol on Solana, built by Regolith Labs. It is the more established of the two protocols with the deepest liquidity and largest miner base.
- Token: ORE (
oreoU2P8bN6jkk3jbaiVxYnG1dCXcYxwhwyK9jSybcp) - Token decimals: 11
- Program:
oreV3EG1i9BEgiAJ8b177Z2S2rMarzak4NMv1kULvWv - Protocol cut: 10.9% of each round's deployment pool
- Base reward: Variable ORE amount per round
- Motherlode: A per-round jackpot pool that goes to the winning tile
- Status: Full support — AutoMiner and analytics
ORE uses an entropy program for randomness in deploy transactions and requires 11 accounts for the deploy instruction. It supports both SOL and ORE token reward claims.
GODL
GODL is a fork of ORE that adds pooled mining and modified reward mechanics. The GODL community focuses on collaborative mining through pool participation.
- Token: GODL (
GodL6KZ9uuUoQwELggtVzQkKmU1LfqmDokPibPeDKkhF) - Token decimals: 11
- Program:
mineWsRs2Rmw2jPMkVbgAbDjV1E23yQ8TEodaX3iza4 - Protocol cut: 10% of each round's deployment pool
- Base reward: +10 GODL per round
- Motherlode: +2 GODL per round plus 1% of the SOL pool
- Status: Full support — AutoMiner and analytics
Key differences from ORE include pooled mining via pool round and pool member PDAs, a different automation PDA seed ("automation_v2"), and different deploy/checkpoint instruction discriminants (33 and 34 vs 6 and 2). GODL also stores miner reward data at different byte offsets — actual rewards are at offsets 520/528, while offsets 488/496 store timestamps.
deployV3 (discriminant 33) as its primary deploy instruction, which includes an isPooled flag for pool participation. This is different from ORE's deploy instruction (discriminant 6).Comparison
The table below summarizes the key differences between the two protocols:
| Feature | ORE | GODL |
|---|---|---|
| Token | ORE | GODL |
| Token Decimals | 11 | 11 |
| Deploy Instruction | deploy (disc. 6) | deployV3 (disc. 33) |
| Deploy Accounts | 11 | 12 |
| Protocol Cut | 10.9% | 10% |
| Base Reward | Variable ORE | +10 GODL/round |
| Motherlode | Per-round jackpot | +2 GODL + 1% SOL |
| Pooled Mining | No | Yes |
| Entropy Program | Yes | No |
| AutoMiner | Supported | Supported |
| Analytics | Full | Full |
Both protocols use the same winner determination mechanism: four 64-bit values are extracted from the Solana slot hash, XOR-ed together, and the result modulo 25 selects the winning tile.