Contributing to Volara

The following guide will walk you through the process of mining Volara.

What is Mining?

Mining is the process of gathering data from X. Miners use a bot to gather data from X, and store it encrypted on their Google Drive.

Miners are given Volara tokens ($VOL) for their work. It's the best way to recieve VOL tokens on the Volara network.

A Note on Credentials

Volara uses two credentials to perform mining on Vana:

1. X username and password, for access to the Twitter API
2. Google OAUTH, for storing your mined X data in Google Drive.

We recommend creating a new X account specifically for mining, to avoid any issues with your main account.

Recommended Environment

We recommend using a Linux environment for mining, specifically Ubuntu 22.04.

Most Volara miners choose to run on a VPS such as AWS EC2.