ICYMI, @zinc_cash is one of the most interesting protocol launched recently. In a nutshell it's a fair-launch mining protocol where participants compete every 30 seconds by deploying $SOL across a 30-tile circular board (referencing zinc's atomic number). Winners on the randomly selected tile split the SOL from losing tiles and mine freshly minted $ZINC tokens. It's a game-theoretic mining mechanic designed to be MEV-resistant and strategy-private, powered entirely by @Arcium's encrypted multi-party computation (MPC) network. — ➠ HOW IT WORKS + ARCIUM The protocol runs in fixed 30-second rounds (continuous, no downtime). ❶ Select tiles & deploy capital - Circular board with exactly 30 tiles - Pick anywhere from 1 to 30 tiles and allocate any amount of SOL behind each pick (minimum ~0.001 SOL per round) - Your selections are encrypted client-side before being sent on-chain ❷ Private computation via Arcium MPC No one (including other miners, the team, or bots) can see your tile choices until the round closes. Arcium operates Multiparty Computation eXecution Environments (MXEs). Multiple independent nodes jointly compute over encrypted data without ever decrypting it individually. Tile selections and randomness generation happen inside these encrypted environments. Only the final outcome (winning tile + payouts) is revealed on Solana. This eliminates the usual blockchain transparency problems that enable front-running and MEV extraction. ❸ Round resolution At the end of 30 seconds, one winning tile is selected via trustless randomness (Arcium's ArcisRNG). All miners who placed SOL on that winning tile share: ▸ The entire pool of SOL deposited on the 29 losing tiles (pro-rata to how much SOL each winner deployed on the winning tile) ▸ 70% of the newly minted ZINC for that round (also pro-rata) ❹ Payout & claiming Winnings (SOL + ZINC) accrue to your on-chain profile. You claim them manually. There's a 10% claim fee that goes to other active miners who haven't claimed yet (incentivizes timely claims and keeps liquidity moving). Special round and rewards variants: ▸ Wildcat rounds (~1 in 4 rounds) Instead of splitting ZINC evenly among winners on the tile, 69.268% of that round's ZINC goes to a single randomly selected "lucky" winner on the winning tile ▸ Bonanza jackpot Every round has a ~1-in-692 chance of triggering a growing ZINC jackpot that pays out entirely to the winning miners when it hits ▸ Bricks & Streaks: Every round you mine earns "Bricks" (points). Consecutive rounds without missing build a streak multiplier. Bricks feed into the weekly Stockpile jackpot (SOL + ZINC) drawn for one winner. ▸ Staking: Stake ZINC (no lock-up) to earn yield from the protocol's buyback program. 10% of all SOL deployed → ~8% used for open-market ZINC buybacks (90% of bought ZINC permanently burned, 10% distributed to ZINC stakers). Mining difficulty/emissions naturally tighten over time (more SOL deployed → less ZINC per SOL). Early miners have a structural advantage. — Tokenomics: ▸ Mint schedule per round: 70% to winning miners, 20% to Stockpile (weekly jackpot), 10% to buyback program ▸ No VC allocation or presale on @MetaDAOProject. Fully fair-launch mining model. ▸ Emissions decrease over time → supply becomes scarcer as adoption grows As of May 30–31, 2026, the protocol has 200+ active miners and tens of SOL per round on average.