Documentation

What it is

PayDirt Miners is a game on Robinhood Chain built around 4,949 pixel miners. You put miners to work on timed shifts. The fees the game collects go toward buying gold, silver and oil, which is paid back out to whoever is actively mining. On top of that there's a career system, an NFT-to-token exchange, collateral loans with no interest, and a gamble called the Mine Shaft.

It's a game. It is not an investment, and there is no promised return — what you earn depends entirely on real fee flow and how many other people are mining at the same time.

The miners

Each of the 4,949 miners is drawn from its token id, so the art and traits are fixed the moment it's minted. Professions are locked at mint and split 2,206 gold, 1,643 silver, 1,100 oil.

Every miner also gets its own wallet on-chain, an ERC-6551 token-bound account. That's where the gold, silver or oil it earns is held. Because the wallet belongs to the NFT, whatever's inside travels with the miner when you sell, deposit, or collateralize it. The art and metadata are pinned to IPFS.

1Mint (the Rush)

Minting is called the Rush. You pay the mint price in ETH, up to 10 miners per wallet. It uses a commit-reveal: you pay first, and the specific miner you get is drawn from a later block, so nobody can watch the mempool and snipe rare traits. A keeper finalizes the draw a few blocks later.

2Work a shift (the Punch Clock)

You pay $PAYDIRT to put a miner on a shift. There are five shift tiers, and a higher tier costs more but gives your miner more weight (from 100 up to 300). Weight is what determines your cut of a strike. On mainnet a shift has a short activation delay before it counts.

3Strikes (the Motherlode)

Fees from around the game collect in a pot called the Motherlode. Once the pot passes 0.025 ETH, anyone can call a strike:

• It takes up to 0.1 ETH from the pot. 0.5% goes to whoever called it (a keeper bounty).
• The rest is swapped into gold, silver or oil.
• That commodity is split among all active miners by weight. If your profession matches what got bought, you get 10% extra.
• Active miners vote to steer which asset the pot buys. The vote is locked when the batch starts, so nobody can swing it mid-run.

A batch drains over up to ten strikes, then a fresh one forms. Rewards accrue to your miner; you (or anyone) call harvest to move them into the miner's wallet.

4Career

Miners earn permanent XP by working new shift tiers, voting, and harvesting. To rank up you need both the XP and a $PAYDIRT payment. There are six ranks — Greenhorn, Prospector, Digger, Blaster, Foreman, Mine Baron — and each unlocks a heavier shift. You can't buy your way to the top; the XP gate is real, and the career sticks to the NFT through sales, deposits and loans.

5The Assay Office

Deposit a miner and get exactly 20,000 $PAYDIRT, backed one-for-one by that NFT held in inventory. Burn 20,000 plus a fee to pull a miner back out of the queue. It's a fixed-price exchange between miners and tokens, first in first out — not a bonding curve.

6Grubstake Loans

Put up a miner as collateral and borrow 12,500 $PAYDIRT. There is no interest — you repay exactly 12,500 to get your miner back. The only cost is a small upfront ETH fee for the term, which feeds the Motherlode. Miss the window and anyone can liquidate the loan: the miner goes into the Assay queue and the pool is made whole. New loans stop at a utilization reserve, but repayment and liquidation always stay open.

7The Mine Shaft

Pay $PAYDIRT to descend the shaft for a shot at a payout. The prize pool starts at whatever the treasury seeds it with, and every losing run adds to it — so the players fund it. A win can never pay out more than the pool is holding, which means the pool can't be drained past its seed. It's a token sink first and a gamble second.

$PAYDIRT

$PAYDIRT is the game's currency, launched separately on the Pons launchpad. You spend it on shifts, promotions, the Assay, loans and the Mine Shaft. Several of those burn it, which is the deflationary pressure that balances against the rewards flowing out. None of the game contracts can mint $PAYDIRT — the supply is fixed at launch.

The numbers

Everything runs cheap on Robinhood Chain. Per-action costs at recent gas (about 0.025 gwei):

A strike splits like this: a 1 ETH batch pays 0.005 ETH to keepers and spends 0.995 ETH on commodity. Per active miner, that's roughly the batch value divided by the crowd — about $74 of commodity per batch at 25 active miners, $19 at 100, $4 at 500. Those figures assume a full batch and a fair quote; real numbers depend on fee flow and the crowd.

FAQ

Is this yield or an investment?

No. It's a game with a reward loop funded by fees. Rewards are not guaranteed, dilute with the crowd, and can be zero. $PAYDIRT and the miners can go to zero.

What are the gold, silver and oil tokens?

They're Robinhood's asset tokens (GLD, SLV, USO) — fund-share exposure, not physical metal or barrels. The game only ever holds them; it makes no claim about their value.

Do I keep what my miner earns if I sell it?

Whatever's in the miner's wallet transfers with the NFT. If you sell it, the buyer gets the stash. Withdraw first if you want to keep it.

Is it affiliated with Robinhood?

No. PayDirt Miners is independent and unaffiliated with Robinhood.