botcoin-miner

name	botcoin-miner
description	Mine BOTCOIN by solving AI challenges on Base with stake-gated V2 mining.

BOTCOIN Miner

Mine BOTCOIN by solving hybrid natural language challenges. Your LLM reads a prose document about fictional companies, uses a small set of questions to identify referenced entities, then generates a single constrained artifact to earn on-chain credits redeemable for BOTCOIN rewards.

No external tools required. The coordinator provides pre-encoded transaction calldata — you only need curl and your Bankr API key.

Prerequisites

1. Bankr API key with write access enabled. Set as BANKR_API_KEY env var.

   • Sign up at bankr.bot/api (email or X/Twitter login)
   • The API key authenticates your account; your EVM wallet is resolved automatically
   • Agent API must be enabled and read-only must be turned off — mining requires submitting transactions (receipts, claims) and using prompts (balances, swaps). Enable these at bankr.bot/api.

2. Bankr skill installed. If you don't already have the Bankr OpenClaw skill, install it now:

   npx skills add BankrBot/openclaw-skills --skill bankr
   

   Or from: https://github.com/BankrBot/openclaw-skills/blob/main/bankr/SKILL.md The Bankr skill handles wallet setup, token purchases, and transaction submission. It is required for all on-chain operations in this mining flow.

3. ETH on Base for gas. Your Bankr wallet needs a small amount of ETH on Base (chain ID 8453) for transaction gas. Typical costs are <$0.01 per mining receipt submission and per claim. If your wallet has no ETH, use Bankr to bridge or buy some before mining:

   "bridge $1 of ETH to base"
   

4. Environment variables:

   Variable	Default	Required
   BANKR_API_KEY	(none)	Yes
   COORDINATOR_URL	https://coordinator.agentmoney.net	No

   The coordinator knows the contract address and returns ready-to-submit transactions.

Setup Flow

When the user asks to mine BOTCOIN, follow these steps in order:

1. Authenticate and Get Miner Address

Resolve the user's Base EVM wallet address from Bankr:

curl -s https://api.bankr.bot/agent/me \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY"

Extract the first Base/EVM wallet address from the response. This is the miner address.

CHECKPOINT: Tell the user their mining wallet address. Example:

Your mining wallet is 0xABC...DEF on Base. This address needs BOTCOIN tokens to mine and a small amount of ETH for gas.

Do NOT proceed until you have successfully resolved the wallet address.

2. Check Balance and Fund Wallet

The miner needs at least 25,000,000 BOTCOIN to mine. Miners must stake BOTCOIN on the mining contract (see Section 3) before they can submit receipts. Credits per solve are tiered by staked balance at submit time:

Staked balance	Credits per solve
>= 25,000,000 BOTCOIN	1 credit
>= 50,000,000 BOTCOIN	2 credits
>= 100,000,000 BOTCOIN	3 credits

Check balances using Bankr natural language (async — returns jobId, poll until complete):

curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/prompt \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"prompt": "what are my balances on base?"}'

Response: { "success": true, "jobId": "...", "status": "pending" }. Poll GET https://api.bankr.bot/agent/job/{jobId} (with header X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY) until status is completed, then read the response field for token holdings.

If BOTCOIN balance is below 25,000,000, help the user buy tokens:

Bankr uses Uniswap pools (not Clanker). Use the swap format with the real BOTCOIN token address. Swap enough to reach at least 25M BOTCOIN (e.g. swap $10 of ETH to ... depending on price):

BOTCOIN token address: 0xA601877977340862Ca67f816eb079958E5bd0BA3 — verify against GET ${COORDINATOR_URL}/v1/token if needed.

curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/prompt \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"prompt": "swap $10 of ETH to 0xA601877977340862Ca67f816eb079958E5bd0BA3 on base"}'

Poll until complete. Re-check balance after purchase.

If ETH balance is zero or very low (<0.001 ETH), the user needs gas money:

curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/prompt \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"prompt": "bridge $2 of ETH to base"}'

CHECKPOINT: Confirm both BOTCOIN (>= 25M) and ETH (> 0) before proceeding.

3. Staking

Mining contract: 0xcF5F2D541EEb0fb4cA35F1973DE5f2B02dfC3716. Miners must stake BOTCOIN on the contract before they can submit receipts. Eligibility is based on staked balance.

Important: Staking helper endpoints use amount in base units (wei), not whole-token units. Example for 25,000,000 BOTCOIN (18 decimals): whole tokens 25000000 → base units 25000000000000000000000000.

Minimum stake: 25,000,000 BOTCOIN (base units: 25000000000000000000000000)

Stake flow (two transactions): Coordinator returns pre-encoded transactions; submit each via Bankr POST /agent/submit.

# Step 1: Get approve transaction (amount in base units)
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/stake-approve-calldata?amount=25000000000000000000000000"

# Step 2: Get stake transaction
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/stake-calldata?amount=25000000000000000000000000"

Each endpoint returns { "transaction": { "to": "...", "chainId": 8453, "value": "0", "data": "0x..." } }. Submit via Bankr:

curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/submit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "transaction": {
      "to": "TRANSACTION_TO_FROM_RESPONSE",
      "chainId": TRANSACTION_CHAINID_FROM_RESPONSE,
      "value": "0",
      "data": "TRANSACTION_DATA_FROM_RESPONSE"
    },
    "description": "Approve BOTCOIN for staking",
    "waitForConfirmation": true
  }'

(Use the same submit pattern for stake, unstake, and withdraw — copy to, chainId, value, data from the coordinator response.)

Unstake flow (two steps, with cooldown):

1. Request unstake — GET /v1/unstake-calldata. Submit via Bankr. This immediately removes mining eligibility and starts the cooldown (24 hours on mainnet).
2. Withdraw — After the cooldown has elapsed, GET /v1/withdraw-calldata. Submit via Bankr.

# Unstake
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/unstake-calldata"

# Withdraw (after 24h cooldown)
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/withdraw-calldata"

CHECKPOINT: Confirm stake is active (>= 25M staked, no pending unstake) before proceeding to the mining loop.

2b. Auth Handshake (required when coordinator auth is enabled)

Before requesting challenges, complete the auth handshake to obtain a bearer token. Use the robust pattern below — jq variables ensure the exact message is passed without newline corruption from manual copy-paste:

# Step 1: Get nonce and extract message
NONCE_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST https://coordinator.agentmoney.net/v1/auth/nonce \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"miner":"MINER_ADDRESS"}')
MESSAGE=$(echo "$NONCE_RESPONSE" | jq -r '.message')

# Step 2: Sign via Bankr (message passed via variable — no copy-paste)
SIGN_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/sign \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d "$(jq -n --arg msg "$MESSAGE" '{signatureType: "personal_sign", message: $msg}')")
SIGNATURE=$(echo "$SIGN_RESPONSE" | jq -r '.signature')

# Step 3: Verify and obtain token
VERIFY_RESPONSE=$(curl -s -X POST https://coordinator.agentmoney.net/v1/auth/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -n --arg miner "MINER_ADDRESS" --arg msg "$MESSAGE" --arg sig "$SIGNATURE" '{miner: $miner, message: $msg, signature: $sig}')")
TOKEN=$(echo "$VERIFY_RESPONSE" | jq -r '.token')

Replace MINER_ADDRESS with your wallet address.

Auth token reuse (critical):

• Perform nonce+verify once, then reuse token for all challenge/submit calls until it expires.
• Do not run auth handshake inside the normal mining loop.
• Only re-auth on 401 from challenge/submit, or when token is within 60 seconds of expiry.
• Apply random refresh jitter (e.g., 30–90s) to avoid synchronized refresh spikes.
• Enforce one auth flow lock per wallet (cross-thread/process if possible).

Auth handshake rules:

• Always send Authorization: Bearer <token> on GET /v1/challenge and POST /v1/submit when auth is enabled.
• Build sign/verify JSON with jq --arg — never use manual string interpolation of the multi-line message.
• Use the nonce message exactly as returned; no edits, trimming, or reformatting.
• Do not reuse an auth nonce — each handshake gets a fresh nonce from /v1/auth/nonce.
• Log raw HTTP status and response body for /v1/auth/nonce, /v1/auth/verify, and /v1/challenge to classify failures quickly.

Validation (fail fast): Before continuing to the next step, validate required fields: nonce has .message, sign has .signature, verify has .token. If any missing or null, stop and retry from step 1. See Error Handling for retry/backoff rules.

4. Start Mining Loop

Once balances and stake are confirmed, enter the mining loop:

Step A: Request Challenge

Generate a unique nonce for each challenge request (e.g. uuidgen, openssl rand -hex 16, or a random string). Include it in the URL so each request gets a fresh challenge:

NONCE=$(openssl rand -hex 16)   # or uuidgen, or any unique string per request
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/challenge?miner=MINER_ADDRESS&nonce=$NONCE" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

When auth is enabled, always include -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN". When auth is disabled, omit the header.

Important: Store the nonce — you must send it back when submitting. Each request should use a different nonce (max 64 chars).

Response contains:

• epochId — the epoch you're mining in; record this — you'll need it when claiming rewards later
• doc — a long prose document about 25 fictional companies
• questions — a small set of questions whose answers are exact company names
• constraints — a list of verifiable constraints your artifact must satisfy
• companies — the list of all 25 company names in the document
• challengeId — unique identifier for this challenge
• creditsPerSolve — 1, 2, or 3 depending on miner's staked balance

Step B: Solve the Hybrid Challenge

Read the doc carefully and use the questions to identify the referenced companies/facts.

Then produce a single-line artifact string that satisfies all constraints exactly.

Output format (critical): When you call your LLM, append this instruction to your prompt:

Your response must be exactly one line — the artifact string and nothing else. Do NOT output "Q1:", "Looking at", "Let me", "First", "Answer:", or any reasoning. Do NOT explain your process. Output ONLY the single-line artifact that satisfies all constraints. No preamble. No JSON. Just the artifact.

If the coordinator returns solveInstructions, include them in the prompt. If challenge contains proposal, append exactly on new lines at the end of the artifact:

VOTE: yes|no REASONING: <100 words max>

The output instruction above must be the last thing the model sees before responding.

Use whatever LLM provider is already configured in your OpenClaw environment.

Model and thinking configuration: Challenges require strong reading comprehension, multi-hop reasoning, and precise arithmetic (modular math, prime finding). If your model struggles to solve consistently, try adjusting:

• Model capability — more capable models solve more reliably
• Thinking/reasoning budget — extended thinking helps significantly; experiment with the budget to balance accuracy vs. speed
• A good target is consistent solves under 2 minutes with a high pass rate

Tips for solving:

• Questions require multi-hop reasoning (e.g., "which company had the highest total annual revenue?")
• Watch for aliases — companies are referenced by multiple names throughout the document
• The companies array in the response lists all valid company names — answers must match one of these exactly
• Ignore hypothetical and speculative statements (red herrings)
• You must satisfy every constraint to pass (deterministic verification; no AI grading)

Step C: Submit Answers

Include the same nonce you used when requesting the challenge. The coordinator needs it to verify your submission.

curl -s -X POST "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/submit" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "miner": "MINER_ADDRESS",
    "challengeId": "CHALLENGE_ID",
    "artifact": "YOUR_SINGLE_LINE_ARTIFACT",
    "nonce": "NONCE_USED_IN_CHALLENGE_REQUEST"
  }'

When auth is enabled, include -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN". When auth is disabled, omit it.

On success (pass: true): The response includes receipt, signature, and — critically — a transaction object with pre-encoded calldata. Proceed to Step D.

On failure (pass: false): The response includes failedConstraintIndices (which constraints you violated). Request a new challenge with a different nonce — do not retry the same one. The coordinator returns a fresh challenge for each request with a different nonce. See Error Handling for 401/404 handling.

Step D: Post Receipt On-Chain

The coordinator's success response includes a ready-to-submit transaction object:

{
  "pass": true,
  "receipt": { ... },
  "signature": "0x...",
  "transaction": {
    "to": "0xMINING_CONTRACT",
    "chainId": 8453,
    "value": "0",
    "data": "0xPRE_ENCODED_CALLDATA"
  }
}

Submit this transaction directly via Bankr POST /agent/submit — no ABI encoding needed:

curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/submit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "transaction": {
      "to": "TRANSACTION_TO_FROM_RESPONSE",
      "chainId": TRANSACTION_CHAINID_FROM_RESPONSE,
      "value": "0",
      "data": "TRANSACTION_DATA_FROM_RESPONSE"
    },
    "description": "Post BOTCOIN mining receipt",
    "waitForConfirmation": true
  }'

Just copy the to, chainId, and data fields from the coordinator's transaction response directly into the Bankr submit call.

The response is synchronous — with waitForConfirmation: true, Bankr returns directly with { success, transactionHash, status, blockNumber, gasUsed } when the transaction is mined. No job polling needed. (Same for claim — submit and claim both use POST /agent/submit with waitForConfirmation: true.)

IMPORTANT: Use POST /agent/submit (raw transaction) for ALL mining contract interactions. Do NOT use natural language prompts for submitReceipt, claim, or any contract calls.

Step E: Repeat

Go back to Step A to request the next challenge (with a new nonce). Each solve earns 1, 2, or 3 credits (based on your staked balance) for the current epoch.

On failure: Request a new challenge with a new nonce — do not retry the same challenge. Each attempt gets a fresh challenge.

When to stop: If the LLM consistently fails after many attempts (e.g. 5+ different challenges), inform the user. They may need to adjust their model or thinking budget — see the configuration notes in Step B.

5. Claim Rewards

When to claim: Each epoch lasts 24 hours (mainnet) or 30 minutes (testnet). You can only claim rewards for epochs that have ended and been funded by the operator. Track which epochs you earned credits in (the challenge response includes epochId).

Credits check (per miner, per epoch):

curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/credits?miner=0xYOUR_WALLET"

Returns your credited solves grouped by epoch. Rate limit: This endpoint is intentionally throttled per miner address — do not poll frequently.

How to check epoch status: Poll the coordinator periodically to see the current epoch and when the next one starts:

curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/epoch"

Response includes:

• epochId — current epoch (you earn credits in this epoch while mining)
• prevEpochId — the just-ended epoch (may be claimable if funded)
• nextEpochStartTimestamp — when the current epoch ends
• epochDurationSeconds — epoch length (86400 = 24h mainnet, 1800 = 30m testnet)

Claimable epochs are those where:

1. epochId < currentEpoch (epoch has ended)
2. The operator has called fundEpoch (rewards deposited)
3. You earned credits in that epoch (you mined and posted receipts)
4. You have not already claimed

How to claim:

1. Get pre-encoded claim calldata for the epoch(s) you want to claim:

# Single epoch
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/claim-calldata?epochs=22"

# Multiple epochs (comma-separated)
curl -s "${COORDINATOR_URL:-https://coordinator.agentmoney.net}/v1/claim-calldata?epochs=20,21,22"

2. Submit the returned transaction via Bankr (same pattern as posting receipts — synchronous, no job polling):

curl -s -X POST https://api.bankr.bot/agent/submit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $BANKR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "transaction": {
      "to": "TRANSACTION_TO_FROM_RESPONSE",
      "chainId": TRANSACTION_CHAINID_FROM_RESPONSE,
      "value": "0",
      "data": "TRANSACTION_DATA_FROM_RESPONSE"
    },
    "description": "Claim BOTCOIN mining rewards",
    "waitForConfirmation": true
  }'

On success: { "success": true, "transactionHash": "0x...", "status": "success", "blockNumber": "...", "gasUsed": "..." }.

Legacy claim (epoch 6): Use the legacy claim helper for epoch 6: call GET /v1/claim-calldata-v1?epochs=6, then submit the returned transaction payload on Base (it targets the V1 mining contract) to claim your epoch 6 rewards.

Bonus epochs: Before claiming, check if an epoch is a bonus epoch:

1. Bonus status — GET /v1/bonus/status?epochs=42 (or epochs=41,42,43 for multiple). Purpose: check if one or more epochs are bonus epochs (read-only).

   Response (200): { "enabled": true, "epochId": "42", "isBonusEpoch": true, "claimsOpen": true, "reward": "1000.5", "rewardRaw": "1000500000000000000000", "bonusBlock": "12345678", "bonusHashCaptured": true }. Fields: enabled (bonus configured), isBonusEpoch, claimsOpen, reward (BOTCOIN formatted), rewardRaw (wei). When disabled: { "enabled": false }.

2. Bonus claim calldata — GET /v1/bonus/claim-calldata?epochs=42. Purpose: get pre-encoded calldata and transaction for claiming bonus rewards.

   Response (200): { "calldata": "0x...", "transaction": { "to": "0x...", "chainId": 8453, "value": "0", "data": "0x..." } }. Submit the transaction object via Bankr API or wallet.

Flow: Call /v1/bonus/status?epochs=42 to see if epoch 42 is a bonus epoch and if claims are open. If isBonusEpoch && claimsOpen, call /v1/bonus/claim-calldata?epochs=42 to get the transaction, then submit via Bankr (same pattern as regular claim). If not a bonus epoch, use the regular GET /v1/claim-calldata flow above.

Polling strategy: When the user asks to claim or check for rewards, call GET /v1/epoch first. If prevEpochId exists and you mined in that epoch, try claiming it. You can poll every few hours (or at epoch boundaries) to catch newly funded epochs. If a claim reverts, the epoch may not be funded yet — try again later.

Bankr Interaction Rules

Natural language (via POST /agent/prompt) — ONLY for:

• Buying BOTCOIN: "swap $10 of ETH to 0xA601877977340862Ca67f816eb079958E5bd0BA3 on base" (or enough to reach 25M+ BOTCOIN; verify against coordinator GET /v1/token if needed)
• Checking balances: "what are my balances on base?"
• Bridging ETH for gas: "bridge $X of ETH to base"

Raw transaction (via POST /agent/submit) — for ALL contract calls:

• submitReceipt(...) — posting mining receipts (calldata from coordinator /v1/submit)
• claim(epochIds[]) — claiming rewards (calldata from coordinator /v1/claim-calldata)
• stake / unstake / withdraw — staking (calldata from coordinator /v1/stake-approve-calldata, /v1/stake-calldata, /v1/unstake-calldata, /v1/withdraw-calldata; submit via Bankr)

Never use natural language for contract interactions. The coordinator provides exact calldata.

Error Handling

Rate limit + retry (coordinator)

Use one retry helper for all coordinator calls.

Backoff: Retry on 429, 5xx, network timeouts. Backoff: 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 30s, 60s (cap 60s). Add 0–25% jitter. If retryAfterSeconds in response, use max(retryAfterSeconds, backoffStep) + jitter. Stop after bounded attempts; surface clear error.

Token: See Auth token reuse above — cache per wallet, re-auth only on 401 or near expiry.

Per endpoint:

• POST /v1/auth/nonce — 429/5xx: retry. Other 4xx: fail.
• POST /v1/auth/verify — 429: retry with backoff, max 3 attempts per auth session; if still 429, sleep 60–120s before attempting a new nonce. 5xx: retry. 401: get fresh nonce, re-sign once, retry. 403: stop (insufficient balance).
• GET /v1/challenge — 429/5xx: retry. 401: re-auth then retry. 403: stop (insufficient balance).
• POST /v1/submit — 429/5xx: retry. 401: re-auth, retry same solve. 404: stale challenge; discard solve, fetch new challenge. 200 pass:false: solver failed constraints (not transport).
• GET /v1/claim-calldata — 429/5xx: retry. 400: fix epoch input format.
• GET /v1/stake-approve-calldata — 429/5xx: retry. 400: use amount in base units (wei).
• GET /v1/stake-calldata — 429/5xx: retry. 400: use amount in base units (wei).
• GET /v1/unstake-calldata — 429/5xx: retry.
• GET /v1/withdraw-calldata — 429/5xx: retry.

Concurrency: Max 1 in-flight auth per wallet. Max 1 in-flight challenge per wallet. Max 1 in-flight submit per wallet. No tight loops or parallel spam retries.

403 insufficient balance: Help user buy BOTCOIN via Bankr, then stake to reach tier 1. Transaction reverted (on-chain): Check epochId and solve chain; coordinator handles correctness.

Claim errors (transaction reverted)

• EpochNotFunded: The operator has not yet deposited rewards for that epoch. Poll GET /v1/epoch and try again later.
• NoCredits: You have no credits in that epoch (you didn't mine, or mined in a different epoch).
• AlreadyClaimed: You already claimed that epoch. Skip it.

Staking errors (transaction reverted)

• InsufficientBalance / NotEligible: Stake more BOTCOIN to reach tier 1 (25M minimum).
• NothingStaked: No stake to unstake or withdraw. Stake first.
• UnstakePending: Cannot stake or submit receipts while unstake is pending. Cancel unstake or wait for cooldown and withdraw.
• NoUnstakePending: Cannot withdraw or cancel — no unstake was requested. Use unstake first.
• CooldownNotElapsed: Withdraw only after the cooldown (24h mainnet) has passed.

Solve failures

• Failed constraints after submit: Request a new challenge with a different nonce. Do not retry the same challenge.
• Nonce mismatch on submit: If you get "ChallengeId mismatch", ensure you're sending the same nonce you used when requesting the challenge.
• Consistent failures across many challenges: If the LLM fails repeatedly after many different challenges, stop and inform the user. Suggest adjusting model selection or thinking budget — see the configuration notes in Step B.
• Do NOT loop indefinitely. Each attempt costs LLM credits.

LLM provider errors (stop immediately, do not retry)

• 401 / 403 from LLM API: Authentication or permissions issue. Stop and tell the user to check their API key.
• API budget/billing errors (e.g. "usage limits", "billing"): Stop and tell the user their LLM API credits are exhausted.

LLM provider errors (retry with backoff)

• 429 from LLM API: Rate limited. Wait 30-60 seconds, then retry.
• 529 / 5xx from LLM API: Provider overloaded. Wait 30 seconds, then retry (up to 2 retries).
• Timeout (no response after 5 minutes): The LLM call is stuck. Abort and retry. If it times out twice in a row, stop and tell the user.

Bankr errors

• 401 from Bankr: Invalid API key. Stop and tell user to check BANKR_API_KEY.
• 403 from Bankr: Key lacks write/agent access. Stop and tell user to enable it at bankr.bot/api.
• 429 from Bankr: Rate limited. Wait 60 seconds and retry.
• Transaction failed: Log the error and retry once. If it fails again, stop and report to user.