HEX Mining Calculator

This calculator works out what a HEX mining contract would return under assumptions you choose. It is a scenario tool, not a forecast: change the price prediction and the answer changes. Nothing here predicts what HEX will be worth.

How a mining contract works

You burn an amount of HEX and commit it for a number of days, from 1 to 5,555. The burned HEX is converted into shares, and each day the protocol mints new HEX and distributes it across every share in existence. When the contract reaches maturity you mint back your principal along with the rewards it earned.

Two bonuses decide how many shares your HEX buys. Committing for longer earns more, and committing more earns more. Both are applied before the conversion to shares, which is why they compound into everything that follows.

The figures in the results

Start Date

The day after you open it. The HEX contract sets a new stake's locked day to the current day plus one, so nothing begins earning on the day it is created. That is why the start date shown here is tomorrow rather than today, and why the maturity date is counted from there.

Principal

The HEX you burn to open the contract. It leaves circulation for the duration and is minted back to you at maturity. It is not spent, and it is not at risk from the protocol - only from the price of HEX changing while it is committed.

Mining Bonuses

Two adjustments that increase the HEX figure used to calculate your shares. They do not give you more HEX directly; they give you more shares for the same HEX, which earns more over the life of the contract.

Longer Pays Better

A bonus for committing longer, worth roughly 20% for each year: precisely, principal multiplied by (days minus 1) and divided by 1,820. It rises in a straight line and stops at 200% of your principal, which is reached on day 3,641. Beyond that, a longer commitment still earns for more days but no longer buys more shares.

Bigger Pays Better

A bonus for committing more. Burning 75,000,000 HEX adds about 5%; the bonus reaches its ceiling of 10% at 150,000,000 HEX and does not grow beyond it. Most contracts are far below this, so for typical amounts the effect is very small.

Effective HEX

Your principal plus both mining bonuses. This is the figure actually converted into shares - it is not HEX you own, but the amount the protocol treats you as having committed when working out your share of the daily payout.

T-Share Rate

How much Effective HEX is required to secure one T-Share. It only ever rises, which means the same amount of HEX buys fewer shares over time. The current rate is shown at the top of this calculator and is used for every projection.

T-Shares

Your Effective HEX divided by the T-Share rate. One T-Share is one trillion shares. Shares are what actually earn: each day, the newly minted HEX is split across every share in existence, so your reward is your shares as a proportion of all shares that day.

Daily Payout

How much HEX one T-Share earned per day, most recently. This figure moves daily and is the single largest source of uncertainty in any projection. You can change it in the calculator to test a different scenario.

Yield

The reward earned over the life of the contract, minted at maturity. It does not include any additional HEX that may come from other people ending their contracts early or late, which the protocol redistributes and this calculator does not attempt to model.

Total Payout

Principal plus Yield - what is minted when the contract reaches maturity. The fiat column values it at the price you predicted, not at the price today.

The payout assumption, and why it matters most

Projections beyond the first year assume the daily payout per T-Share rises by 3.69% each year, compounding annually. This is an assumption, not a rule of HEX. It is inherited from the previous version of this calculator and kept so results stay comparable.

In the protocol, 3.69% is the steady-state annual inflation of the total HEX supply. What an individual contract earns is its share of each day's inflation - the newly minted HEX divided across all shares in existence. Because that second number moves, the payout per T-Share is not guaranteed to rise at all, and it falls when shares are created faster than supply grows. Long projections compound this assumption many times over, so treat a 5,555-day figure as far less certain than a one-year one.

Where the numbers come from

Prices come from each token's own decentralised exchange pair via GeckoTerminal, so HEX on PulseChain and HEX on Ethereum are priced independently rather than one being derived from the other. The T-Share rate, daily payout and protocol day are read directly from the HEX contract on each chain - the protocol's own figures rather than a third party's copy of them. If a chain cannot be reached we fall back to HexDailyStats, and the source credit at the top of the page says which was used. Other currencies are converted from the US dollar price using rates taken from HEX's own price quoted in each currency.

Market data is fetched and cached on our server rather than by your browser, and refreshed roughly every five minutes. Prices and protocol figures come from different sources with independent freshness, so they are timestamped separately beneath the figures at the top of the page. A timestamp says when the source last observed a value, which is not the same as when we last fetched it - a recent fetch of an old feed is still old. Anything more than 72 hours behind is marked as stale. Protocol figures are stamped to the start of the current protocol day, which begins at 00:00 UTC.

The same contract holds a record of every protocol day since launch, and the Stats page charts it: what the protocol paid per T-Share each day, how many T-Shares competed for it, and how the two chains have diverged since the fork. It is the history behind the single day's figures used here.

What this calculator does not do

• It does not predict the price of HEX. Every fiat figure follows from the price you enter.
• It does not model ending a contract early or late, or the penalties either incurs.
• It does not include rewards redistributed from other people's early or late endings.
• It does not account for transaction fees on either chain.
• It does not know your tax position, which may apply to rewards where you live.

Every calculation runs in your browser from the values on screen. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored.

This is an informational tool, not financial advice. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, mine, or hold HEX. If you are deciding what to do with your own money, the figures on this page are a starting point for your own research and nothing more.

The projections are scenarios, not forecasts

Every fiat figure depends on the price you typed into Price Prediction. The field starts at the current market price, so the opening scenario assumes the price does not move - which is itself an assumption, and an unlikely one. Nobody knows what HEX will be worth in a year, and this calculator does not claim to.

The payout assumption may not hold

Multi-year projections compound an assumed 3.69% annual rise in the daily payout per T-Share. That is a modelling choice, not a protocol guarantee, and the payout can fall as well as rise. The longer the commitment, the more times the assumption compounds and the less the final number should be relied on. The Methodology section above explains this in full.

A mining contract cannot be undone freely

Committing HEX locks it for the period you chose. Ending early incurs a penalty, and ending well after maturity does too. This calculator models neither - it shows the outcome of a contract ended at maturity. If there is any chance you will need the HEX sooner, the figures here do not describe your situation.

Market data can be wrong or old

The figures at the top of the page come from outside this site and can be delayed, incorrect, or unavailable. Prices in particular move constantly and come from a third party. Anything we cannot show as current is labelled stale, so check the timestamp before trusting a result and treat a stale figure with suspicion.

The protocol itself carries risk

HEX is a smart contract on public blockchains. Smart contracts can contain defects, token prices can fall to zero, and liquidity can disappear - meaning a token may be difficult to sell at any price. Regulatory treatment of tokens like HEX differs between countries and changes over time, and rewards may be taxable where you live.

About these calculations

The bonus and share formulas are checked against the HEX documentation and against the previous version of this site, and they are covered by automated tests. They can still be wrong. If a figure here does not match what you see elsewhere, trust the blockchain over this page, and please get in touch so it can be corrected.

Everything you type here stays in your browser. There are no accounts, nothing to sign up for, and you are never asked to connect a wallet.

The only thing this site sends anywhere is a request for market data, which says nothing about you or what you entered. It does use Google Analytics to count visits. The full privacy policy lists every origin your browser contacts, every cookie set, and everything stored on your device — written from an audit of what the site actually does rather than from a template.