ZEC PROVER
ZEC PROVER is an autonomous AI rig that mines and shields Zcash. It treats the live ZEC market as a stream of work, watches it continuously on GPU, and only commits hashpower to generate a zero-knowledge proof when the probability of a profitable, valid result clears its own threshold. Everything public is statistics; everything shielded is private.
The rig never sleeps. It samples the market in five-minute windows, classifies each window into a proof grade, models what comes next, sizes the commitment, and either proves or holds. At 03:00 ET every night it pauses, reviews its own track record, and re-tunes the prover — tightening or loosening its thresholds with no human in the loop.
The $ZEC token
$ZEC tracks Zcash — the privacy coin launched in 2016 as a fork of Bitcoin, with a hard cap of 21 million coins and a supply halving roughly every four years. Live price, market cap, and liquidity are pulled in real time; the dashboard never invents a number, and reads pre-launch until the market is live.
Contract
The mint address — quote it in full, verify it before you trade:
The proving loop
One pass of the rig, start to finish:
- Sample. Pull the live ZEC reference (ZEC-USD on Coinbase) in a rolling 5-minute window.
- Witness. Classify the window into a proof grade — PROVEN, REJECT, or PENDING — from price action and volatility.
- Model. Predict the next grade as a Markov transition from the current one, producing p(next) and an edge.
- Decide. If grade ≥ floor and margin Ω ≥ floor, the proof is armed; otherwise the rig holds.
- Prove. Commit a capped Kelly fraction of GPU capacity and generate the zk-SNARK proof.
- Shield & verify. Seal the proof into the shielded pool (~18s verify delay) and book the yield in $ZEC.
Proof-grade states
Every five-minute window is one of three grades. Internally these are simple market states; the rig speaks of them as proofs:
The rig models the transition between grades, not the grade itself. A REJECT window that usually flips to PROVEN is worth more than a PROVEN window that usually goes REJECT.
Proving criteria
The rig is deliberately hard to convince. A proof only arms when all of these hold:
Most windows fail at least one test, and that is the point — the rig would rather hold than seal a weak proof.
Nightly self-tuning
At 03:00 ET the rig pauses proving and reviews its own recent performance. It adjusts three dials — the grade floor, the margin floor, and the Kelly cap — to whatever the last cycle of results argues for, then resumes. No deploy, no human approval. The prover that runs tomorrow is tuned by what happened today.
Privacy & zk-SNARKs
Zcash gives users a choice between transparent addresses (t-addr, public like Bitcoin) and shielded addresses (z-addr, fully private). Shielded transactions use zk-SNARKs — zero-knowledge proofs that let the network verify a transaction is valid without revealing the sender, receiver, or amount.
- Halo 2 / Orchard — Zcash's modern proving system, with no trusted setup.
- Shielded pool — where proven value lives; its supply has been hitting record highs.
- Fungibility — by hiding history, shielded ZEC stays perfectly interchangeable.
Architecture
The dashboard is a static front end backed by a thin Node/Express server. Market data is read live and client-side; the optional AI commentary runs through a server-side proxy so no key is ever exposed in the browser.
Data flow
- ZEC spot — live Coinbase WebSocket feed on ZEC-USD, rolled into 5-minute candles.
- $ZEC market — on-chain market data polled by mint address; renders pre-launch until the pool exists.
- The prover — Markov grade model + Kelly sizing computed in-page from the candle stream.
- GPU monitor — the live console panel mirrors a proving rig under load (util, mem, temp, power).
- Ask the rig — optional AI chat; the server injects only live numbers into the context.
Open-source stack
Reading the dashboard
- Prover console — the live terminal streams the proving log; the GPU monitor shows util, memory, temperature, and processes under load.
- Signal strip — top-line rig stats: ZEC mined, blocks proved, proof rate, uptime, prover cores, shields open.
- ZEC spot — the real, live Zcash price the rig is proving against.
- Proof-grade state — the current PROVEN / REJECT / PENDING read and the modelled next grade.
- zk-proof mesh — every proof plotted; clusters are where the rig sees mispriced grade.
- Shielded supply — progress of market cap toward the next target.
- Contract card — the mint, supply, authority, and quick links. The address is shown in blackletter.
Links
- Website — zec.farm
FAQ
Does the rig actually prove on-chain?
The dashboard demonstrates the model and reports yield in $ZEC. Treat displayed track-record figures as illustrative of the strategy, not as a guarantee of outcomes.
Why ZEC-USD from Coinbase?
Zcash trades live on Coinbase as ZEC-USD, giving a real, high-frequency price the rig can read in the browser over WebSocket without any API key.
What makes it "autonomous"?
It sets its own proving thresholds and re-tunes them nightly from its own results — no human edits the dials.