Co-op Mining Rig
The Co-op Mining Rig transforms community participation into a recurring shared activity system built around contribution, coordination, and long-term engagement.
A Shared Participation System
The Co-op Mining Rig is not a personal mining operation or an individual yield mechanism. It is a shared participation system — one where users contribute activity collectively, communities compete against each other across structured cycles, and recurring engagement becomes the unit of value.
Users who participate in the Rig are contributing toward a shared system that the entire AquaVaults community is part of. Their activity accumulates alongside other participants. Their community selection ties those contributions to a specific community's standing in the current cycle.
That shared structure is what makes the Rig distinct. This is not a solo activity. It is coordinated ecosystem participation, with communities and users moving together toward a common cycle.
The Co-op Mining Rig gives communities and users a recurring reason to participate together. That is the idea it is built around.
How the Rig Works
The Rig operates in 30-day cycles. During each cycle, users contribute activity toward the system. Those contributions accumulate, communities compete for position based on the total participation directed toward them, and at the end of a cycle — when claims are received from the connected mining rig — a distribution can occur based on the current cycle structure.
The current cycle structure, when a distribution takes place, works as follows: a portion goes toward AquaVaults operations, a larger portion forms the rewards pool, and a further portion is directed back into supporting ongoing mining rig activity.
Within the rewards pool, a share can go toward the top-ranked community at the close of the cycle. The remaining portion of the rewards pool may be distributed to participating users based on their contribution activity during the cycle.
Distributions depend on claims being received from the connected mining rig. Participation in the Co-op Rig creates contribution activity and community standing, but does not guarantee that a distribution will occur in any given cycle or that any specific amount will be received. Eligibility and outcomes are not fixed or guaranteed.
Different Ways To Participate
Each user receives 6 Droplets daily. Droplets are the participation currency of the Rig — they are used to contribute toward the session in three different ways. Droplets refresh at 12:00 AM UTC every day and do not roll over; unused Droplets from the previous day are gone when the new day begins.
Mine
Contributing Droplets to Mine helps start and sustain a rig session. Starting a session requires 18 Mine Droplets contributed collectively across participating users. Mine earns 1 point per Droplet contributed.
Burn
Contributing Droplets to Burn extends the current session length. Each session starts with a 5-minute base; each burned Droplet adds 2 minutes on top of that. Burn earns 0.5 points per Droplet. Longer sessions may seem better, but the optimal strategy is not always simply maximizing runtime — coordination across all three contribution types matters more than any single one.
Hashboost
Hashboost is a cooperative bucket system. A filled bucket triggers a small SOL contribution that supports the rig's health and can increase the likelihood of claims reaching the rig. Hashboost earns 1.5 points per Droplet and requires users to work together — a single user cannot fill a bucket alone.
Each Hashboost bucket requires 6 Droplets to fill collectively. Users can contribute up to 3 Droplets to Hashboost per day, with a maximum of 2 Droplets per individual bucket. If a bucket is not fully filled before the current session starts, the bucket empties and no SOL contribution occurs for that session — though individual user contributions toward that bucket are still tracked. After the current session ends, a 22-minute cooldown passes before Hashboost opens again for a new bucket. Communities that can coordinate to fill the Hashboost bucket before every session starts create a stronger, more consistent activity pattern for the Rig.
A user contributing 3 Droplets to Mine (3 × 1 = 3 points) and 3 Droplets to Hashboost (3 × 1.5 = 4.5 points) earns 7.5 points per day — current highest standard daily total. Burn earns 0.5 points per Droplet for users who choose to extend session length instead.
Running the Co-op Mining Rig is part strategy, part cooperation, and part consistency. The Hashboost bucket system in particular creates a genuine cooperation layer — communities that actively call on their members to fill the bucket before each session begins create a more engaged, more coordinated participation environment than communities leaving it to chance.
Why Communities Care
The Rig gives communities something most platforms do not: a recurring shared participation structure that members can rally around together across each cycle.
Every contribution a user makes is tied to the community they have selected. That means a community's standing in the current cycle directly reflects how actively its members are participating. A community that can organize around the Rig — consistently directing member contributions toward their community — can build and sustain a position at the top of the leaderboard.
When a distribution occurs, the top-ranked community at the close of the cycle can receive a designated portion of the rewards pool. That creates a shared goal communities can organize around together, turning passive membership into recurring participation tied to visible community activity.
Beyond the competition structure, the Rig gives community leaders a recurring call to action. Not just "hold" or "post" — but contribute daily, keep the community active, help maintain the leaderboard position. That kind of recurring engagement creates stronger community bonds and more durable participation patterns than one-time campaigns alone.
Optional On-Chain Participation
The Rig includes an optional on-chain participation mode that some users choose to enable. When active, each Rig contribution can generate a small on-chain transaction from the user's wallet, creating a verifiable on-chain record of their participation.
Users who enable this mode may find their Rig contributions become visible within broader ecosystem tracking systems. Some participants use this for reasons that have nothing to do with the Rig itself — including building on-chain transaction history that may be relevant to participation tracking on platforms like Seeker, which recognize on-chain activity within the broader ecosystem.
On-chain participation mode is entirely optional. Enabling it involves a small SOL cost per contribution. AquaVaults does not guarantee that on-chain contributions will be recognized by any external platform, qualify for any specific eligibility criteria, or produce any particular outcome. Some users choose it because they value the on-chain record it creates. Others use standard participation mode and do not need it.
Built Around Recurring Engagement
The Rig's 30-day cycle structure is not incidental. It is the mechanism that makes recurring participation meaningful.
A one-time action has no persistent context. A contribution made within a 30-day cycle is part of an ongoing pattern — one that accumulates, builds community standing, and connects to a shared goal that updates and resets over time. Users who participate consistently are doing something qualitatively different from users who show up once.
That distinction shapes how the Rig is designed. Droplets refresh daily. Contribution cycles have defined windows. Community standings shift based on ongoing participation, not a single moment of activity. The system is built around recurring participation and sustained engagement over time, not just isolated bursts of activity.
For communities, this creates an ongoing engagement loop that is self-renewing. Each new cycle is a fresh opportunity to coordinate, compete, and demonstrate active participation. Communities that build habits around the Rig — members who return daily, who participate consistently — create the kind of sustained engagement that distinguishes an active community from one that only shows up occasionally.
More Than Mining
The name references a physical mining rig because the system connects to one — an AquaVaults-operated external mining environment whose activity the Co-op participation layer is built around. But the Co-op Rig is not traditional mining, and understanding it as such misses the point.
The Rig is coordinated participation infrastructure. It gives users a daily action. It gives communities a competition structure. It gives the AquaVaults ecosystem a recurring engagement layer that exists in parallel with swap activity, AutoSwap campaigns, Swap Widget usage, and everything else the platform supports.
Each of those systems reinforces the others. A user who swaps through AquaVaults while supporting a community is already participating. If that same user also contributes daily Droplets to the Rig, selects the same community, and joins coordinated community pushes, they become active across multiple layers of the ecosystem simultaneously. Participation stops being tied to a single feature and becomes part of a broader recurring activity loop.
That layered engagement model is what the Co-op Mining Rig makes possible. It is not a feature sitting next to the swapper. It is another loop in a coordinated system designed to give communities and users more ways to stay active, stay connected, and build something together over time.
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