Volara Miner

Miner for the Volara X DLP

About

Volara is a decentralized data marketplace for X data, built on the robust Vana network. We empower users by giving them ownership of their data and enabling them to earn from it.

The Volara Miner is a software package which allows users to contribute X data to the network for rewards.

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.

Mine With Docker

The easiest way to run the Volara miner is with Docker - a containerization solution that manages the miner dependencies.

Quickstart

Paste this into your terminal to start mining:

[ -f "volara.sh" ] && rm volara.sh; curl -s -o volara.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/volaradlp/minercli/refs/heads/main/run_docker.sh && chmod +x volara.sh && ./volara.sh

Prerequisites

You must have docker installed on your system.

Install Docker

Mac / Linux / Windows

Docker desktop can be installed here

The public installation documentation can be found here

Create and Fund Your Wallet

Any Ethereum-compatible wallets will work with Vana/Volara. We recommend getting started with metamask.

Create Metamask Wallet

Create a Metamask wallet here

Get <your_private_key> here

Fund Wallet

The Vana faucet can fund your address here

Add Vana Network to Wallet

You can add the Vana network to your wallet to see Vana and Volara tokens here

Start Mining

Once docker is installed, run the below commands in your terminal to run the miner.

Replace <your_private_key> with any Ethereum compatible private key.

docker pull volara/miner
export VANA_PRIVATE_KEY=<your_private_key>
docker run -it -e VANA_PRIVATE_KEY=${VANA_PRIVATE_KEY} volara/miner

Mine With Native Installation

Prerequisites

Volara uses several dependencies to operate.

• Python 3.12
• Poetry

brew install python
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/volaradlp/minercli.git
cd minercli
source setup.sh

You should now have access to the volara cli command.

Interface

The interface can be accessed via the CLI at ./bin/volara

Mining

By default, miner runs as a background daemon.

Start Mining

volara mine start

Flag	Description
-b	Run the miner in a background process

Stop Mining

volara mine stop

See Mining Logs

volara mine logs

Account

Rewards

View your hotkey's rewards

volara account rewards

Auth

Google Drive

Login to Drive

volara auth drive login

Logout to Drive

volara auth drive logout

X

Login to X

volara auth twitter login

Logout to X

volara auth drive logout

Misc

Update the Volara CLI

volara update

Check the Volara CLI version

volara --version