Secure Your Tokens
Your mining phone should never hold valuable tokens. Here's how to set up a secure savings wallet so your POH goes straight to cold storage.
Important
Your mining phone's wallet (hot wallet) is exposed to the internet and vulnerable to theft. Never store large amounts of POH on it. Always set up a savings wallet.
Step 1: Get a Hardware Wallet
A hardware wallet (like Ledger Nano S/X) stores your private keys offline. It's the safest way to hold crypto.
- 1.Purchase a hardware wallet directly from the manufacturer (never secondhand)
- 2.Set it up following the manufacturer's instructions
- 3.Write down your 24-word seed phrase on paper. Never digitally.
- 4.Add the Base network to your hardware wallet
Don't have a hardware wallet? A separate phone (kept offline) or a MetaMask on a computer you don't carry around also works as an intermediate solution.
Step 2: Set Your Savings Wallet in POH
Tell the POH mining system to send all claimed rewards directly to your hardware wallet address.
- 1.Open the mining dashboard at /mine
- 2.During setup, enter your hardware wallet address as the "Savings Wallet"
- 3.When you claim rewards, tokens go directly to your hardware wallet
- 4.Your mining phone never touches the POH — it just proves your compute work
Step 3: How Claiming Works
Each week, the Proof of Planet system calculates your rewards and creates a merkle proof. Here's the flow:
Step 4: Understanding Vesting
To protect the network, rewards are partially vested based on your mining history:
New Miners (< 6 months)
- 25% immediate to savings wallet
- 75% vests over 180 days
- After 180 days, claim the rest
Veterans (6+ months)
- 75% immediate to savings wallet
- 25% vests over 30 days
- After 30 days, claim the rest
Vested tokens are locked in the smart contract and released automatically after the vesting period. You call releaseVested() to claim them.