Proof of Goon, explained.
Proof of Goon is a participation-weighted distribution protocol on Solana. It releases 500,000,000 GOON, half of a fixed supply, to the wallets that take part, on a schedule nobody can change, through a program nobody can withdraw from.
What it is#
Most tokens are distributed by sale, by airdrop, or by rewarding whoever already has the most capital or the most machines. Proof of Goon distributes by participation. Wallets earn an accounting weight called Goon Power for doing verifiable things; each epoch a fixed amount of GOON is split by that weight; the split is committed on-chain as a Merkle root; and each wallet claims its share directly from a program-owned vault.
The name is a joke. The mechanism is not. Every number that matters is either enforced by the on-chain program or published so that anyone can recompute it.
Design properties#
- Fixed supply. 1,000,000,000 GOON, six decimals, mint authority revoked at creation. No team or private allocation.
- Program custody. The mining reserve is held by a program-derived address. The only instruction that moves it is a claim against a settled root.
- Scheduled issuance. Emission halves every 210 epochs. The program rejects any distribution that exceeds what the schedule has released.
- Delayed finality. A published distribution waits 12 hours before it can be claimed, and can be cancelled in that window.
- Public accounting. The full distribution for every epoch is downloadable, and its hash is stored on-chain beside the root.
- Bounded earning. Every source of Goon Power is capped, the total is capped, and returns diminish. An idle browser tab earns nothing.
- Nothing intimate. The protocol never asks for, infers, stores or publishes sexual or personal content. A wallet address is the only identifier.
Start mining in two minutes#
- Open
/playand connect a Solana wallet. - Sign the sign-in message. It is plain text, costs nothing and cannot move funds.
- Open Goontown, make a resident and go and fight something. Every second you spend landing hits counts.
- Finish the three daily bounties. Each pays 10 GP once.
- When the epoch closes, your Goon Power becomes a share of that epoch's emission. After the settlement delay, claim it on
/claim.
Network#
The addresses this deployment is using. Every one of them can be opened in an explorer.
Where to go next#
Terms, actors and the lifecycle of one epoch.
The game: combat, Edge, zones, gear, and how grinding earns.
Sessions, challenges, contributions, proofs.
The scoring function, caps, streaks and trust.
The halving schedule and the reward formula.
Roots, the distribution file, claiming, verifying.
How the vault gets exactly 500,000,000 GOON.
Accounts, instructions, errors, invariants.
Every route, auth, errors.
The issuer guide: sign, submit, revoke.
Roles, guarantees, abuse resistance, privacy.
What can go wrong, stated plainly.
Short answers and definitions.