The lattice

QUBIT is a mining game on Solana. The board is a 5×5 lattice of 25 qubits, labelled A1 to E5. A round lasts about one minute. While a round is open, any miner can entangle SOL with one or more qubits: you choose an amount per qubit and the set of qubits it goes on.

A round starts with the first entanglement, not on a clock. You can entangle with a given qubit once per round. Until the round ends, the lattice is in superposition: every qubit holds SOL, none of them has won.

The collapse

When the round ends, the lattice is measured and collapses onto a single qubit, each of the 25 having the same 1 in 25 chance regardless of how much SOL sits on it. Then the SOL is settled:

• A 1% admin fee is taken on all the SOL of the round.
• 10% of the SOL on the 24 losing qubits goes to the treasury and is used to buy back $QUBIT.
• The rest of the losing SOL is paid to the miners of the measured qubit, pro rata to what each of them put on it, on top of their own SOL.

If nobody was on the measured qubit, the round has no winner: its SOL goes to the treasury and is used for buybacks. If the round's entropy cannot be finalized, every miner is refunded in full.

Randomness

The measured qubit is derived from a value no single party controls, built from two ingredients:

• A committed seed. Before any round, the entropy provider commits to a hash chain of secret seeds. Each revealed seed must hash to the previous commitment, so future seeds are locked in and cannot be chosen after the fact.
• A slot hash. The hash of the Solana slot at which the round ends, which nobody knows while the round is open.

The two are hashed together on-chain into the round's entropy. The provider cannot predict the slot hash, validators cannot predict the seed, and the result is recorded in the round account, so any collapse can be recomputed: qubit = entropy mod 25.

Rewards & claims

Each collapse releases 1/100,000 of the reserve to the measured qubit. Depending on the qubit, the reward is either split pro rata between all its miners, or awarded whole to one of them, drawn with odds proportional to their SOL.

Quantum Leap. Each round also adds a fifth of the round reward to a shared pool. Every collapse has a 1 in 500 chance of triggering a leap, which pays the entire pool to the miners of the measured qubit, pro rata.

SOL winnings and mined $QUBIT accumulate on your miner account and are claimed from your profile. Mined $QUBIT is unrefined until you claim it: claiming takes a 10% fee on the unrefined amount and redistributes it to every miner still holding unrefined $QUBIT. What you receive from other miners' claims is refined and carries no fee.

Automation

A miner can fund an automation account with SOL and let it entangle on their behalf round after round: a fixed amount per qubit, on a chosen set of qubits or on random ones, until the balance runs out or the miner stops it. The executor that submits the transactions earns a small fee per round, set by the miner.

Tokenomics

• Supply. 1,000,000,000 $QUBIT, launched on pump.fun. The mint authority is revoked: no program, including ours, can create more.
• Reserve. Mining rewards come from a reserve of $QUBIT held by the treasury. Anyone can add to it; nobody can withdraw from it. Its balance is public.
• Emission. Every round releases 1/100,000 of the reserve to miners, plus a fifth of that to the Quantum Leap pool. Rewards shrink as the reserve drains and grow when it is refilled. They never hit zero overnight.
• Decoherence. The protocol fee collected in SOL buys $QUBIT on the open market. 90% of what is bought is burned. 10% is distributed to stakers.

Staking

Stake $QUBIT to receive your share of the 10% of buybacks routed to stakers. There is no lockup. Yield is paid in $QUBIT and depends on round volume: no volume, no buyback, no yield.

Contracts

The programs are not deployed yet. This site currently runs a simulated lattice that follows the same rules as the program, with a preview wallet and no real SOL. Addresses will be listed here at launch:

• Game program: TBA
• Stake program: TBA
• Entropy program: TBA
• $QUBIT mint: TBA

License & credit

QUBIT is based on ORE by Regolith Labs, released under the Apache License 2.0. The on-chain game, staking and entropy logic is theirs; the changes we made (naming, addresses and authorities, initialization, rewards paid from a reserve instead of a mint, and the winner-takes-the-pot payout from an earlier version of ORE) are stated in the repository's NOTICE file. QUBIT is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Regolith Labs.