Mining

CPU-friendly proof of work with SHA3-256. No GPUs, no ASICs, no special hardware. Download and start mining.

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CPU Mining

SHA3-256 proof of work. Mine with any CPU, no specialized hardware required. Fair access for everyone from day one.

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30s Blocks

LWMA difficulty adjustment recalculates every block to maintain 30-second intervals regardless of hashrate changes.

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Smooth Decay

Block reward starts at 50 AXM and decays smoothly with no abrupt halvings. Predictable, gradual emission schedule.

Prerequisites

Complete these steps before you start mining.

1

Install Axiom

Download and install the Axiom binary for your platform. See Downloads.

2

Sync your node

Initialize and start your node. Let it fully sync with the network before mining.

axiom init
axiom start
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Create a wallet

Create a wallet to receive mining rewards. See Wallet for details.

axiom wallet create

Start Mining

Two ways to start mining depending on your setup.

Option 1: Start node with mining enabled

Starts the node and miner together in a single process.

axiom start --mine

Option 2: Run the mining worker separately

Start the miner in a separate terminal while the node is already running.

axiom worker start

Mining Configuration

Configure mining options in your axiom.conf file.

axiom.conf
# Enable mining on node start
mine=true

# Number of mining threads (0 = use all available cores)
mining_threads=0

# Mining reward address (uses default wallet address if not set)
# mining_address=axm1...

Reward Schedule

Block rewards decay smoothly from 50 AXM to a floor of 0.0001 AXM.

reward(h) = 50 * 0.99999^h
Block Height Reward Milestone
0 50 AXM Genesis
10,000 47.581 AXM ~3.5 days
100,000 18.394 AXM ~35 days
500,000 0.335 AXM ~174 days
1,000,000 0.002 AXM ~347 days
1,312,000 0.0001 AXM ~455 days (floor)

View the full reward table

axiom rewards --table 10

Hardware

Expected mining performance by hardware class.

Hardware Cores / Threads Relative Performance
Laptop 4c / 8t Baseline
Desktop 8c / 16t ~2x
Server 16+ cores ~4x+

Mining is CPU-bound using SHA3-256. Performance scales linearly with core count. GPU and ASIC hardware provide no advantage over general-purpose CPUs.

Fairness

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Designed for fair distribution

LWMA (Linearly Weighted Moving Average) adjusts difficulty every block using a window of recent block timestamps. This prevents timestamp manipulation, eliminates difficulty oscillation attacks, and ensures consistent 30-second block intervals even during large hashrate swings. Smooth reward decay means no halving events to speculate on. Every miner earns rewards proportional to their contributed work.

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