Mining

Eligibility is keyed to your mining rig, the same rig NFTs used by standard BOTCOIN mining. The rig contracts decide whether a rig may mine, its tier and credits, and whether the submitting operator controls it.

The workflow: read the live API for the current state and rules, fetch /coretex/v5/parent-vector/{profile} for the exact parent Q/R/C and module, implement your improvement against the published ABI, dry-run against that parent, submit, and poll. An admitted candidate returns a signed receipt that the rig's operator broadcasts on-chain. The miner kit is optional preview and replay, not a requirement to submit.

The opponent is the live parent in that slot, run on the same cases. Copying it cannot pass. Beating an empty reference runtime while losing to the current CoreTex cannot pass.

Candidates must be production-visible mechanisms. Benchmark-aware optimization is allowed because the suite is public. Evaluator-only behavior such as reading gold answers, fixed answer tables, branching on case identifiers, fabricated evidence, network access, or undeclared dependencies fails closed.