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Minting and the Nomination system

Authoritative overview aligned with qortal.dev/wiki/minting and qortal.dev/wiki/q-mintership. Prefer this over older “sponsorship key” language.

What minting is

Minting is how Qortal produces blocks. Accounts with minting rights run a full node and share in each blocks reward while online. It is not Proof of Work mining and not Proof of Stake — influence comes from sustained participation (blocksMinted → minting level), not from buying hardware races or locking coins.

One minting account per person. Running multiple minting accounts to multiply rewards is not allowed; Minter Admins remove related accounts from the MINTER group if the rule is broken.

Levels (practical facts)

  • blocksMinted is cumulative and never resets.
  • Level drives reward share and permissions (e.g. Level 5+ can nominate).
  • Level 1 is about 7,200 online minted blocks. Credits are batched (~every 1,000 blocks), so Level 1 often shows after roughly 8,0009,000 online blocks. Trust the Level shown in Hub, not a raw counter alone.

Approximate block-reward share by level bands:

  • Levels 12: 6%
  • Levels 34: 13%
  • Levels 56: 19%
  • Levels 78: 26%
  • Levels 910: 32% (tier may be inactive until minters exist there)
  • Legacy QORA transition share: 1%
  • Minter/Dev Admin share: at least 3% (details evolve; see live chain / Q-Mintership)

Block reward emission

At Genesis (29 June 2020) the reward was 5 QORT per block. About every six months it steps down by 0.25 QORT toward a floor of 2 QORT. After that, yearly votes can adjust within 15 QORT per block. There is no hard cap on total QORT; new coins are created by minting.

From sponsorship to Nominations (current)

Qortal no longer uses sponsorship keys for onboarding minters.

Current path = Nominations inside the Q-Mintership Q-App, approved by community-elected Minter Admins on-chain:

  1. A Level 5+ minter publishes a nomination card for you (you cannot nominate yourself).
  2. A poll opens; community and admin votes are tracked separately.
  3. At roughly 40% Minter Admin “yes”, admin action buttons unlock.
  4. An admin creates a MINTER group invite; ~40% of admins must sign via group approval (~9 of ~21 admins at typical counts — the exact number changes).
  5. You JOIN_GROUP, then add a minting account in Q-Node and keep a synced full node online.

What helps a nomination: registered name, real QDN publishes, helpful community presence, and a nominator who knows your work. Viewing content alone is weak evidence; durable QDN publishes are strongest.

Guides to open on QDN

  • Welcome to Qortal (APP) — onboarding / orientation for newcomers.
  • Q-Minter (WEBSITE, “Q-Minter Guide”) — detailed minting guide.
  • Q-Mintership (APP) — live nomination board and admin flow.

When the user is in QDN mode, recommend opening these as QDN tabs.