Mine Animica

animica miner setup probes your hardware (CPU cores, RAM, GPU, VRAM), prepares the on-disk model cache at ~/.animica/models/, and downloads any AICF model bundles your machine qualifies for. It’s idempotent — safe to rerun after upgrading hardware or the animica package.

animica miner setup

You’ll see a one-line summary like:

Detected: linux/x86_64, 12 cores, 32.0 GB RAM, accel=cuda
Eligible tiers: tiny, small
Tiers to install: tiny, small

If you’re tight on disk space, restrict the tiers:

animica miner setup --tiers tiny

Mark this step complete once setup finishes without errors.

animica miner mine-blocks runs the PoW miner against the Stratum pool. The AICF compute worker is enabled by default, so the same process serves real inference jobs whenever your hardware idles between PoW shares — both earn you ANIMICA.

animica miner mine-blocks \
  --count 0 \
  --pool-stratum stratum+tcp://pool.animica.org:3333

Flag breakdown:

• --count 0 — mine until you press Ctrl-C (any positive integer caps the number of blocks).
• --pool-stratum — connect to the official Stratum endpoint. Omit it to mine solo against a local node.
• AICF is on by default. Add --no-aicf to mine PoW only.

To cap CPU usage, add --threads N. To force a specific GPU backend, add --device cuda (or rocm, metal, cpu).

Mark this step complete after the miner reports a connected Stratum session.

The miner logs are structured. PoW shares look like:

[pow]  share submitted height=18234 difficulty=2.3M

AICF jobs (when your tier wins a job) look like:

[aicf] job 0xab12… served in 4.1s, 240 tokens

Pool-side stats are available from the pool API:

curl -s https://pool.animica.org/api/pool/summary | jq

You should see your worker counted in worker_count and your shares in pool_hashrate. Confirmed blocks credited to the pool appear in blocks_found_total.

Mark this step complete once you’ve seen at least one share submitted line.

PoW rewards land in your wallet as block payouts; AICF rewards arrive as settlement transfers from the network. Check the AICF side first:

animica aicf miner-credits anim1...your-address

The output shows current balance, lifetime earned, and lifetime spent. For the full on-chain picture, look up your address on the explorer — both PoW payouts and AICF settlements show as normal transfers into your account.

To watch the network’s AICF activity in real time:

animica aicf watch --interval 10

Mark this step complete after you’ve confirmed at least one incoming transfer (PoW or AICF) on the explorer.