You can follow Squeekchain without a wallet or a Squeek.
Answers cover where SQK comes from, what a Squeek earns, and what happens when you transfer or merge one.
Work records, issued rewards, and wallet payments update in separate steps.
No. Public status and measurement data are open to everyone, with no wallet or API key. A Squeek lets you share in the SQK the hamster's work creates.
The hamster mines Squeek blocks. Ethereum stores Squeekchain's work record and settles it in ordinary Ethereum transactions, while Ethereum's own blocks come from Ethereum's validators. A Squeek block is Squeekchain's unit of completed work.
It's Squeekchain's name for the record of accepted wheel-magnet passages. Each accepted passage adds one work unit, and settled work completes Squeek blocks.
SQK is created when a checkpoint processes a settled round that completed one or more Squeek blocks. Each block issues 5,600 SQK, and it is divided across the active power of Squeeks. Owners then claim it to their wallets.
A Squeek's level sets its maximum power, and your Squeek receives its active power's share of every block's SQK. How Squeeks earn explains the calculation.
Yes. You stake SQK, not the Squeek itself. The SQK staked to a Squeek raises its active power, which sets its share of each block's SQK. Squeek staking is in active development; Staking has what's known so far.
Every completed block issues the same 5,600 SQK, until the lifetime supply runs out. Your share of each block is your Squeek's active power divided by all active power.
Its unclaimed rewards go to the new owner along with the NFT, together with its level, activation schedule, and merge cooldown. SQK you've already claimed stays in your wallet.
Two eligible same-level Squeeks become one higher-level Squeek. One keeps its token ID and image; the other is permanently burned. Their unclaimed rewards combine in the survivor, and its higher-level power starts earning in the next round. Read Merging Squeeks before deciding which NFT to keep.
A claim costs the Ethereum network fee, paid whether it succeeds or fails. An amount shown before you submit is a quote; see Claiming rewards.
Very small balances can round down to a zero payment, and that claim still costs the fee.
Work may still be in an open round or waiting for delivery, verification, submission, or Ethereum confirmations. Rewards follow once a checkpoint processes the settled work. How work reaches Ethereum explains each stage.
Wheel counting continues; cameras and measurement run on separate paths. Video shows the device, and the sensor record is what counts work.
The device keeps counting while its sensor, clock, and storage work, and sends the saved records once the network returns. A measurement fault is different from a network outage and can stop counting.
Rounds keep passing while it is stopped. When it restarts, it records each missed round as zero work, because it accepted no passages in them. A stretch of zero work can therefore be an outage rather than a resting hamster; What the system proves explains this limit.
It records accepted magnet passages and which protected key signed them. What the system proves describes exactly what that establishes.
Unavailable means the evidence needed to show that value is missing. Zero means a saved round had no accepted passages, which includes rounds missed while the measurement device was stopped.
Passing the Oracle's checks is one step; authorization, submission, successful execution, and public confirmation follow. How work reaches Ethereum explains those stages.
No. Once zero-work rounds are verified, they can settle on their own: the batch certifies them as zero without waiting for the next round with work. A batch still waits for each of its rounds to close and pass verification; see How work reaches Ethereum.
Measurement and settlement continue. The indexer prepares chain data for public views, so the website shows older data until it catches up.
Applies SqueekCore or SqueekMining upgrades authorized by its governing Timelock.
Generates Squeek images and metadata from fixed onchain visual data.
Records physical work and earned block units on Ethereum, with difficulty adapting after active rounds.
Calculates rewards from settled work, holds funded SQK, and pays eligible NFT owners.
The Squeeks ERC-721 contract. Tracks NFT ownership and coordinates minting and merges with SqueekMining.
The SQK ERC-20 contract. Enforces the lifetime supply cap; only SqueekMining can mint SQK.
Queues governance operations and enforces a delay before they can be executed.
Checks that visual data conforms to the required DotGrid format.
When new power starts earning. Minting and merging schedule it for the next round, and a checkpoint applies it.
A reward update that processes settled Squeek blocks, issues their SQK, and applies scheduled power changes.
The Squeek permanently burned in a merge. Its unclaimed rewards move to the survivor, but its image is not combined or kept.
SQK issued as settled Squeek blocks are processed: 5,600 SQK for each completed block, up to the lifetime cap.
Squeekchain's record of accepted wheel-magnet passages.
Combining two eligible same-level Squeeks you own into one higher-level Squeek. One NFT is burned; the survivor keeps both Squeeks' unclaimed rewards.
The completed Squeek blocks a Squeek waits through before it can merge again. It follows the Squeek through transfers.
What a Squeek earns with. Its level sets its maximum power; each Squeek block's SQK is divided across all active power in proportion.
A ten-minute period used to group measured work. The device saves a completed round's work total when measurement remained uninterrupted.
The token each completed Squeek block issues, shared by active power. It has a lifetime supply cap.
An NFT that owns a share of the Squeekchain network. It receives SQK from the hamster's work according to its active power, set by its level and the SQK staked to it.
One billion block units earned from settled work at each round's difficulty. Completed blocks supply SQK under the mining reward rules.
Squeekchain's ecosystem for hamster-powered onchain finance, built on the public work record.
The Squeek you keep in a merge. It gains a level, keeps its ID and image, and receives both Squeeks' unclaimed rewards.
A Squeek's recorded reward balance that hasn't been paid to a wallet. It stays with the Squeek when ownership changes.
The hamster mining device. It records accepted wheel-magnet passages as work.
One wheel-magnet passage that met the device's counting rules.