Why The Stockpile Is Zinc's Second Mine

The Mine Has A Longer Cycle

ZINC rounds move quickly.

Miners pick tiles, also called blocks, commit SOL and the round closes. The winning tile is then revealed using Arcium technology. That fast rhythm is the part you play most: quick decisions and quick feedback, on a board built to stay fun.

The Stockpile runs at a different pace. It is the part of the mine that keeps a record. Every round sends 1% of deployed SOL and 5% of that round's ZINC emissions into the Stockpile. Bricks give miners a way to enter it. Arcium runs the selection with ArcisRNG.

The Stockpile is a side pool, but not a passive one. The game itself builds it, round by round.

Rounds create the flow. The Stockpile collects it.

How It Builds

The Stockpile design is easier to understand than it looks. Every mining round contributes to the pile.

With SOL, 1% of all SOL deployed into a round goes into the Stockpile.

The ZINC side is just as simple. 5% of the ZINC a round mints goes into the Stockpile too.

There is one special case. If a round has no winners, the ZINC payload is redirected. 70% of it goes to the Bonanza and 30% goes to the Stockpile.

The Stockpile grows because the mine is active. The more rounds that run and the more SOL that flows in, the heavier the longer cycle gets.

More than SOL and ZINC

The pile is not limited to SOL and ZINC. Partners can add their own tokens to the Stockpile, and other assets can sit alongside them. It has held HYPE, wBTC, ORE, and CARDS, and future partners can do the same.

For a partner, it is a clean way to put a token in front of our mining community, and it increases distribution and attention. For miners, it means you can win another bonus, one that we add or a partner adds.

Stockpile #5 Is Already Open

The latest live view shows 128 of 200 participants, with the cycle closing on 19 Jun 2026 at 13:17 UTC.

The pot is currently around 1700 SOL and 3,600 ZINC, worth over $170,000.

For a sense of scale, the last completed cycle, Stockpile #4 was worth over $250,000.

https://x.com/zinc_cash/status/2066546091856703658

Those numbers are not the final count. They are the live state of the pile while the Stockpile is still open. As the mine keeps moving, the pot will keep moving with it.

Entry uses Bricks and ZINC. That detail matters, because Bricks are not passive points. They come from mining activity. ZINC is the token being mined and cycled back through the protocol. A Stockpile entry brings both pieces back into play.

Each entry also raises the next entry cost for Bricks and ZINC. Early entries are cheaper. Later entries can still add weight, but the price of doing so moves up as the Stockpile fills.

That adds a timing layer. Entering is not a simple yes or no. Miners decide when to go in and how much of their Brick position to commit, and because the cost climbs as the Stockpile fills, the timing of that call matters.

Bricks Become Rank Weight

Bricks do not select the tile in a normal mining round. In the Stockpile, they have a different job. They become rank weight.

The more Bricks a miner commits, the more weight that miner carries when the Stockpile selects its winners. That turns Bricks from a leftover record into stored mining effort that can matter later.

The number of payout spots can change from cycle to cycle. Right now there are ten, so ten miners share the pool.

The loop is simple. Mine rounds. Earn Bricks. Commit Bricks and ZINC. Build weight in the Stockpile.

It is a smart use of history. The main board rewards decisions in the moment. The Stockpile gives past activity another place to show up.

Why Arcium Matters Here

The Stockpile needs a result that cannot leak early and can still be checked later. Arcium does both. It generates the random number with ArcisRNG and seals it before entries open, and it can only be decrypted once the cycle closes.

That order is the whole point. The number is fixed before anyone enters, so it cannot be rigged once the entries are in. It stays sealed until the close, so nobody can read it early and time their entry around it. After the close, the proof path lets miners check the result for themselves.

The Bottom Line

The Stockpile is Zinc's second mine. The board is the fast layer. The Stockpile is the longer one. One creates the action. The other keeps a record of that action and turns it into something miners can build on and close out together.

A pile built by the mine.

The mine is open: zinc.cash