recently,#Aleo This new public chain project using zero-knowledge proof technology has attracted a lot of attention. In particular, its testnet validator incentive plan, which promises to issue 1 million points, has attracted the interest of many miners.

However, many people may be discouraged when seeing the equipment requirements in the official tutorial.

So, can ordinary users without equipment participate?

The answer is: Yes!

How to do it? It's easy, just borrow someone else's equipment!


There is a platform called Lagrange, which has a lot of mining equipment for you to choose from.#io项目

Similar to Akash Network #AKT , both are decentralized platforms that provide multi-party computing resources. However, Lagrange... is still in the testnet stage, so it can be said to be completely free! Yes, it's free!

Now I will teach you how to get this wool step by step:

The first step is to register an account on f2pool. It’s very simple, just follow the prompts.


Step 2: Set up your wallet

Lagrange is currently in the testing phase, so you need to first set up your wallet and get some test coins. It sounds troublesome, but following their tutorial, it only takes a few minutes.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5A0dd2z3ukXXdPhUBn-kXw

1 Add Sepolia testnet in MetaMask:

2 Add Swan Chain Proxima Testnet: Access chainlist and add proxima
https://chainlist.org/?search=proxima&testnets=true

3. Import tokens

At the bottom of the Token tab, click Import tokens.

Enter the token contract address:

SWAN: 0x91B25A65b295F0405552A4bbB77879ab5e38166c

The token symbol and decimal places should automatically populate; if not, check a block explorer.

4. Receive SWAN test token

Claim test tokens at the Discord faucet, copy the following to join the Swan official Discord, and find the testnet-faucet channel under the LAGRANGE - SPACE section.

https://discord.com/invite/swanchain

Enter the command $swan_faucet {your-wallet-address}.

6. Receive test ETH and cross-chain to Swan Chain

In addition to testing SWAN, you will also need SwanETH to pay gas fees, which can be obtained by cross-chain conversion with Sepolia ETH at a 1:1 ratio. Therefore, you first need to obtain SepoliaETH from PowFaucet, Alchemy and Quicknode faucets.

Option 1: Mint Sepolia ETH on PowFaucet: https://sepolia-faucet.pk910.de/

Option 2: Claim Sepolia ETH at the Alchemy Sepolia faucet: https://sepoliafaucet.com/

Option 3: Claim Sepolia ETH at Quicknode faucet: https://faucet.quicknode.com/ethereum/sepolia

7. Transfer ETH on Sepolia chain to Swan Chain.

Visit “https://bridge.swanchain.io/”

Enter the amount of ETH you want to exchange across chains, and then click the "Deposit" button to transfer the ETH on the Sepolia chain to the Swan Chain.

Step 3: Harvest lagrange computing resources

At present, there are many Spaces for mining aleo on the lagrange platform, which saves us a lot of effort. Visit lagrangedao.org, connect the wallet, and then find a Space that shows running, and click fork in the upper right corner.

You can fork this one directly: https://lagrangedao.org/spaces/0x129ddcdA5B114c05d4932CC553535Ef3cC9201D5/Aleo-f2pool-for-cpu/app


After forking, select hardware. Note that this step is actually equivalent to the [Prepare mining equipment] in the Aleo official tutorial. At this step, lagrange provides us with many mining equipment options, including GPU and CPU.

But let’s not make a selection just yet, click “just fork” on the left.

We need to modify the configuration file first. Click the personal center in the upper right corner, find the Space you just forked, go in, click Files, and find the configuration file

Notice that there is a line called ACCOUNT. Change the account name after ACCOUNT to the account name you just registered in the fish pool. Remember to change it! Otherwise, you will be mining for others. After changing it, click [Commit Change] to save the changes, and then select the mining equipment.

This step is critical, otherwise you are working for others!


Click [Settings] and return to the page for selecting hardware. This platform currently has a lot of computing resources, and you can choose as needed. However, after two days of testing, I found that if the Aleo project uses CPU for mining, it is best to use as many cores as possible. It is meaningless to have less than 24 cores. The overall memory requirement is not high, and a 1:1 allocation of CPU and memory is sufficient. The disk requirement is not high either. At present, 300G is enough.


After choosing, pay on Little Fox and get the test coins for free directly from the faucet. If you don’t know how to get them, please read the official tutorial: https://docs.swanchain.io/swan-testnet/atom-accelerator-race/before-you-get-started/claim-testswan

After the Space display is running, we return to the background of the fish pool and we can see the mining data.

Mining Pools

Currently supports three mining pools

  • f2pool, the example above uses f2pool. Registration address: https://www.f2pool.com/

  • Fishpool corresponds to CPU, choose this: https://lagrangedao.org/spaces/0x129ddcdA5B114c05d4932CC553535Ef3cC9201D5/Aleo-f2pool-for-cpu/app

  • Fishpool corresponds to GPU, choose this: https://lagrangedao.org/spaces/0x129ddcdA5B114c05d4932CC553535Ef3cC9201D5/Aleo-f2pool-for-gpu/app

  • zklion, account registration website: https://pool.zklion.com/, corresponding spaces that can be forked: https://lagrangedao.org/spaces/0x129ddcdA5B114c05d4932CC553535Ef3cC9201D5/Aleo-zklion-for-cpu/app .

  • zkrush: Account registration website: https://pool.zkrush.com/, corresponding spaces that can be forked: https://lagrangedao.org/spaces/0x129ddcdA5B114c05d4932CC553535Ef3cC9201D5/Aleo-zkrush-for-cpu/app