KALE

This is not a winner takes all mining contract. The block reward is distributed to all working farmers based on contributions both to a staking step and a working step.

The block reward amount will vary up from block reward base to include any unclaimed KALE staked by farmers who were unable to complete their work for the block.

The block reward is calculated by the minute but blocks close roughly every 5 minutes. So each block reward starts at 2500 KALE. This is greater than a minute to ensure an appropriate balance between blockchain load and hash difficulty distribution. Close too quickly and the blockchain could be overwhelmed with requests. Close too slowly and the hash difficulty could be too high for the average CPU miner to participate.

The block reward decays by 5% every 30 days. So, mining earlier will lock in the most productive harvests of all.

Block rewards must be claimed passively after the next block has its first plant invocation.

All storage other than a few protocol items is temporary. This keeps things cheap af but also introduces an interesting “risk” mechanic in that if you’re tardy to claim your rewards you might just miss out entirely. Don’t let those veggies rot!