Mine with neurons, not hashes.
Neurite is a store of value secured by real neural computation. Miners simulate scanned brain connectomes — and every share is a simulation the protocol has verified.
Follow @NRTbrain for launch updates- neurons in the adult fly connectome
- ~140K
- synaptic connections, each one simulated
- ~50M
- every job is bound to both — no replays
- Wallet + round
- emissions split by accepted work
- Pro-rata
From wallet to reward in five steps
Neurite swaps hash grinding for brain simulation. This is the loop every miner runs, round after round.
- 01
Step 01
Connect & start a brain
Connect your wallet and start a brain. Your own device — or a hosted worker — runs a supported brain model, and your dashboard shows its neurons firing and your mining progress as it happens.
- wallet
- your device or hosted
- live dashboard
- 02
Step 02
Receive a fresh challenge
The protocol assigns a job: a brain model, starting conditions, sensory inputs and a number of simulation steps. Every job is tied to your wallet and the current round, so old results can't simply be submitted again.
- model
- initial state
- stimulus
- steps
- 03
Step 03
Simulate the brain
The neural simulation does the work. Inputs propagate through the brain's real connections, producing firing patterns and a resulting brain state. Completing that simulation is the mining task.
- propagation
- firing patterns
- brain state
- 04
Step 04
Earn verified shares
Verified jobs earn mining shares. Rewards track accepted computation, not activity — reporting more spikes earns nothing, so spamming activity or fabricating a counter doesn't pay.
- verification
- mining shares
- 05
Step 05
Collect round emissions
Shares receive scheduled token emissions. Each round releases a defined amount of Neurite, split according to accepted work — hold 2% of a round's shares and you earn 2% of its rewards.
- scheduled
- pro-rata
Watch a brain mine
While a job runs, your dashboard shows neurons firing, the spike raster, simulation progress and verified shares. The preview below is a real — if tiny — spiking network running in your browser.
- job
- 0x4e0b…e7
- model
- fly / whole-brain
- stimulus
- visual · looming
- round
- 1,284
- 0.0sChallenge received · job 0x4e0b…e7
- Spikes observed
- 0
- Active neurons
- 0%
- Shares this session
- 0
- Last result
- —
Display only — not rewarded
Share firing, last 100 steps
One per verified job
Waiting for first job
Illustrative preview · job IDs, round and hashes are simulated locally, not network data
See the brain work
Neurons light up as they fire and signals spread along real connections from the sensory inputs inward.
Activity is insight, not income
Spike counts are shown so you can watch the simulation — they never change what you earn.
Shares only after verification
A job becomes a share once its result is accepted. Unverified work doesn't count.
Every job is specific — and single-use
A challenge spells out everything the simulation needs. Hover a property to see where it lives in the job.
{ "round": 1284, "wallet": "0x7a3f…9c21", "model": "fly/whole-brain", "initial_state": "0x5e1d…a09b", "stimulus": { "channel": "visual", "pattern": "looming", "seed": 88412 }, "steps": 10000}Illustrative format — exact field names are defined by the protocol
Rewards follow verified work — not noise
More spikes don't mean more money. If activity were the reward, anyone could spam it or fake a counter. Neurite pays only for computation the protocol accepts.
Rewarding activity
Count spikes, pay spikes
- Spamming activity inflates the number
- A fabricated counter looks identical to a real one
- Yesterday's result can be submitted again
Proof of Neural Work
Verify the work, then pay
- Each job is freshly assigned to one wallet and one round
- A result must match its challenge to be accepted
- Only accepted computation earns shares
Real brains, mapped synapse by synapse
Neurite's brain models come from connectomes — complete wiring diagrams reconstructed from brain scans, with AI tracing every neuron. Miners simulate these real circuits, not random graphs.
Fruit fly
The adult fly's entire brain, reconstructed neuron by neuron from electron-microscopy scans with AI-assisted tracing in the FlyWire project. Compact enough to run on everyday hardware, rich enough to see, smell and steer.
- neurons
- ~140K
- synapses
- ~50M
- brain
- Whole
Rat
A mammalian model built from rat brain scans — larger circuits and heavier jobs that bring cortical computation into the network.
- cortex
- Mammal
- jobs
- Larger
- at release
- Specs
Fly figures are approximate public counts for the FlyWire adult-brain connectome. Rat model specifications will be published with its release.
Scheduled emissions, split by work
Shares receive scheduled token emissions. Each round's release is divided among miners in proportion to their accepted shares — 2% of the round's shares earns 2% of its rewards.
Reward per round
reward = Eround × your sharestotal shares
Defined per round
Every round releases a set amount of Neurite on schedule.
Split by accepted work
Your cut equals your fraction of the round's accepted shares.
No lottery
Every verified job earns — not just whoever finds a lucky block.
Share calculator
example numbers2.00%
of round shares
10,000 × (20 ÷ 1,000)
200 NRT
Your reward for the round in this example.
Illustrative only. Actual round emissions and share totals are set by the protocol and the network.
A store of value for the neural age
Bitcoin showed that scarcity can be secured by work. Neurite keeps the discipline — scheduled issuance, verifiable effort — and points that work at neuroscience.
| Aspect | Proof of Work | Proof of Neural Work |
|---|---|---|
| The work | Guessing SHA-256 hashes | Simulating real brain connectomes |
| What it produces | A hash below a difficulty target | Firing patterns and a resulting brain state |
| Freshness | Each block commits to the one before | Each job is bound to a wallet and a round |
| Who gets paid | The miner who finds the block | Every miner, pro-rata to accepted shares |
| Issuance | Fixed schedule | A defined emission every round |
Scarce by schedule
Supply enters only through scheduled round emissions.
Verifiable
Shares exist only for computation the protocol accepts.
Replay-proof
Jobs are tied to a wallet and a round, so results can't be recycled.
Open to anyone
Mine on your own device or through a hosted worker.
What is Proof of Neural Work?
Which brains can I mine with?
Do I need special hardware?
Can I earn more by reporting more spikes?
Can I resubmit an old result?
How are rewards calculated?
Where do the brain scans come from?
Where can I follow updates?
Start a brain. Earn your share.
Connect a wallet, pick your device or a hosted worker, and let a real connectome do the mining.