How it works
No rig to assemble, no wallet software to configure, no pool to join. Getting started takes about as long as installing any other app.
From install to your first UNC in a couple of minutes
Get the UNC mobile app free on Google Play. Quick and easy installation in seconds.
Sign up with your email or phone number. Set up your secure wallet to receive your mined UNC tokens.
Tap the mine button and watch your balance grow. It's that simple. Mine anytime, anywhere.
The one concept worth understanding before you start
Traditional mining runs a calculation on your hardware around the clock, which is why it needs dedicated machines and a great deal of electricity. UNC does not do that on your phone.
Instead, tapping Mine opens a session — a 24-hour window during which UNC accrues to your balance at your hourly rate. The work happens on the network, not on your handset, so your battery and your data allowance are left alone.
Sessions are also what make consistency matter. Starting one each day builds a streak, and streaks multiply your rate. Miss a day and the streak resets, but your balance and your referral tiers stay exactly where they were.
You open a mining session that runs for 24 hours. UNC accrues to your balance at your current hourly rate for the length of that session. When it ends you start another one, which is what keeps a daily streak alive.
No. Once a session is running it continues whether the app is open, backgrounded or closed, and whether or not your phone has signal. You only need to open the app to start the next session.
Every verified miner starts at 0.25 UNC per hour. Referral tiers add up to 0.40 UNC per hour on top, and daily streaks and seasonal events apply further multipliers.
Withdrawals open when the UNC chain reaches mainnet. Until then, daily sessions credit your balance automatically and there is nothing to claim manually.
No. The app is free, mining is free, and there is no hardware to buy or electricity cost to cover.
The session records that a verified person started it, and your balance accrues server-side for its duration. No cryptographic work runs on your handset at any point. That is why a session costs no meaningful battery, and it is also why we describe this as participation rather than computational mining — the word mining implies work your phone is not doing.
Because a distribution meant for people is worthless if bots can claim it. Networks without an identity layer end up dominated by automated multi-account farming, which drains the supply intended for genuine participants. Tying one verified human to one identity is what makes the resulting network mean anything, and it is the core design decision behind UNC.
You accumulate a pending balance that converts one-to-one to on-chain UNC at genesis. Until that launch there is no chain to transact on, so balances cannot move, be sold, or be priced. Building the verified participant base now is the point of this phase — the network is only worth launching if real people are actually on it.
No, and that is deliberate. There is no deposit that raises your rate and no premium tier to buy. Rate is determined by consistency and by the active people you bring, both of which reflect participation. A network that lets people purchase position stops measuring what it claims to measure.
Your balance and referral tiers are exactly as you left them. Only the streak multiplier resets, and you can begin rebuilding it with your next session. Nothing you have already accumulated expires or is clawed back for inactivity.
The three steps above are simple enough that the reasoning behind them is easy to miss, and the reasoning is the part worth understanding before you decide whether to take part.
Traditional mining secures a network by making participation expensive. Whoever spends the most on hardware and electricity earns the most, which works, but it concentrates the network among people who can afford industrial equipment and prices out everyone else. Attempting that on a phone is not a smaller version of the same thing — it is simply losing, because a handset is orders of magnitude slower than purpose-built hardware and would burn more in battery than it could ever return.
So UNC does not attempt it. Instead of proving you spent electricity, a session proves you are a real, verified person who showed up. That is a different claim about a different scarce resource: there is an effectively unlimited supply of computing power available to anyone with capital, but there is exactly one of each human being. A network that can establish that has something the hardware-based model cannot buy.
This is also why the identity step is not bureaucratic overhead. Without it the whole premise collapses, because nothing stops one operator running ten thousand accounts and taking a distribution meant for ten thousand people. Networks in this category that skipped verification have been hollowed out in exactly that way, and their participants were left holding a share of something largely fictional.
The honest limitation is that none of this creates value on its own. Proving a network is made of real people is necessary for it to be worth anything, but it is not sufficient, and UNC is pre-mainnet — balances have no price, cannot be sold, and may never be worth anything. The reason to take part now is that it costs you seconds a day, not because the outcome is settled.
Install UNC, create an account, and tap Mine. That is the whole process.
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