FAQ and glossary
Short answers to the questions that come up most, and one-line definitions of every term used in these docs.
Questions#
What is the GOON token address?
Wn46fj2vUJwJtcu877TWX5XvXTmrEhvJfSSUM9vgoon on Solana. That is the only one.
Is the token live?
Yes. GOON is live on Solana mainnet and trading on its Meteora bonding curve, and the Proof of Goon program is deployed and bound to it. Mining payouts are not live yet: the vault is empty and nothing can be claimed until the curve graduates and the 500,000,000 reserve is moved into the vault. What you earn until then is provisional Goon Power, which is a score and not a balance.
Where is the mining reserve right now?
Inside the bonding curve. When the curve graduates, the unsold half is paid to the launch wallet, not straight to the vault, because that is how this curve was configured. The launch wallet then has to send 500,000,000 GOON to the vault before mining can activate. Nothing on-chain forces that transfer, so until it happens you are trusting whoever holds that wallet.
Do I need hardware, stake or SOL to mine?
No hardware and no stake. You need a Solana wallet. Signing in is free. Claiming is an ordinary transaction, so it needs a fraction of a cent of SOL. The program also lets a third party pay that fee on your behalf; the tokens still go to you.
Is Goon Power a token?
No. It is an accounting weight that exists in a database and in each epoch's published distribution file. It cannot be transferred, sold or redeemed by itself. It decides your share of an epoch's emission and nothing else.
I fought for a bit. Why is my Goon Power still zero?
Goon Power from fighting starts after one minute of active time in an epoch and builds from there. Active time is only the seconds in which you were landing hits. Walking around, shopping and standing in town do not count.
I left the tab open for an hour. Why did I earn nothing?
Because an open tab is not participation. Strokes stop when your target dies, and picking the next one takes an input. Nothing was fought, so nothing was credited.
What is a provisional point worth?
Nothing, until mining activates. Then provisional Goon Power is added to your epoch 0 score and shares that epoch's pool. How much GOON that is depends on how much Goon Power exists in total. Nobody can state a rate in advance.
When can I claim?
After an epoch closes it is settled and its root is published, then waits out the settlement delay. With a daily epoch and a 12-hour delay, rewards from one day become claimable around midday UTC the next.
Do unclaimed rewards expire?
No. Roots are cumulative. You can claim once after any number of epochs.
Can the team take the vault?
There is no instruction that sends vault tokens anywhere except to a wallet proving a leaf in a settled root. While the program is upgradeable, the upgrade authority could in principle deploy different code; that is disclosed under risks.
Can the operator print more than the schedule?
No. The program computes the cumulative schedule itself and rejects a root whose total exceeds it.
Does running many wallets help?
Not in aggregate. Emission is fixed and split pro rata, so extra wallets compete with each other, and wallets sharing a network fingerprint beyond the allowance split a fixed share.
Can a bot play the game?
Yes. A script can click enemies and press skills. The protocol does not claim otherwise. The daily cap, diminishing returns, network clustering, flags and exclusions bound what a script earns to roughly what a dedicated person earns per wallet.
What data do you keep about me?
Your wallet address, your activity in the app, and salted hashes of your IP address and user agent for abuse detection. No name, email or identity, and nothing intimate.
Why does the supply end slightly under one billion?
The bonding curve's leftover carries a few thousand raw units of rounding dust above 500,000,000. Activation burns it so the vault holds exactly the reserve.
What happens if the site goes down?
Mining pauses, because sessions need the API. Claims do not: with your proof, which is public, you can call the program directly.
Glossary#
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Activation | The one-time instruction that starts mining once the vault holds the reserve. |
| Active root | The most recent root whose settlement delay has passed. Claims verify against it. |
| Backlog | Emission released by the schedule but not yet allocated. Re-released at 1/210 per epoch. |
| Bounty | One of three daily combat goals; each pays a fixed amount of Goon Power once per epoch. |
| Claim | The transaction that pays a wallet its cumulative allocation minus what it has already claimed. |
| Cumulative allocation | The lifetime amount a wallet has been allocated. The value in its Merkle leaf. |
| Data hash | SHA-256 of an epoch's distribution file, stored on-chain beside the root. |
| Distribution file | The canonical JSON listing an epoch's rewards and every wallet's cumulative allocation. |
| Active time | Seconds in which you damaged an enemy within the previous four seconds. |
| Epoch | The period rewards are computed over. One UTC day on mainnet. |
| Era | 210 epochs. Emission halves at each era boundary. |
| Final GP | Goon Power after caps, diminishing returns, streak, trust and the global cap. |
| Genesis | The start of epoch 0, fixed at activation. |
| Goon Power | The weight by which an epoch's pool is split. |
| Guardian | The key that can pause the program and cancel a pending root. |
| Issuer | An allowlisted service that signs integration proofs. |
| Leftover | The unsold remainder of the bonding curve. Paid to the launch wallet at graduation, which forwards the reserve to the vault. |
| Network floor | The minimum denominator used when splitting a pool. |
| Oracle | The key that publishes roots. |
| Pending root | A published root still inside its settlement delay. |
| Period | floor(unixTime / epochSeconds). The off-chain index that exists before activation. |
| Pool | The GOON an epoch can distribute: scheduled emission plus a share of the backlog. |
| Provisional GP | Goon Power earned before activation. |
| Raw units | Integer token amounts with six implied decimals. |
| Reserve | The 500,000,000 GOON held for mining. |
| Settlement delay | The wait between publishing a root and being able to claim against it. |
| Streak | Consecutive eligible epochs. |
| Trust | A multiplier from 0 to 1 applied for exclusions and network clusters. |
| Vault authority | The program-derived address that owns the vault. Seed "vault". |