The miners who convert IP subnets into the encrypted internet.
Miners compete to make the most IPv4 /29 and IPv6 /48 subnets available on the network, each kept routable at any moment for ingress or egress traffic. In other words, miners convert the public internet into an anonymous private network for everyone to use. Every miner carries both ingress and egress traffic, runs a safe-by-default security model, routes only encrypted traffic, and is paid from subnet emission for the traffic it carries and the routable capacity it contributes. The fleets with the broadest distinct, routable coverage are promoted to top-level miners and earn more, all in user space, on hardware you already own.
A miner is both an extender and a provider: every miner takes the ingress and the egress role at once. It configures itself automatically for the system it runs on.
The goal is a dual shadow network: for every public IPv4 and IPv6 subnet, a private, anonymous counterpart is also available. UR is building that private anonymous network.
Egress
As egress, a miner is an exit IP of the shared network. It rejects traffic that conflicts with common regulation directions like CFAA and DMCA, blocks known-malicious IPs, and routes only encrypted traffic, protecting both miners and users.
Ingress
As ingress (an extender), a miner creates entry points that improve reachability worldwide, using N-layer TLS, SNI spoofing, and trusted forwarding. A rotating subset is exposed each cycle, and clients automatically retry the entry points that worked before.
Measured and matched
Independent validators walk chains of miners to prove real-time transit and measure liveness and quality. Miners are ranked by that measurement and by speed, and each operator runs its own matchmaking between users and miners.
Earn from emission
Miners are paid from the subnet's emission. Inside an operator's pool you claim your share directly from the contract by proof (with settlement v2, one claim collects everything your payout wallet has accrued, and it never expires): a low-barrier baseline reward, with no slot to win and nothing to burn.
Miner guideCompete for the top
Miners compete on reach. The network ranks fleets by how many distinct, routable exit IPs they actually serve rather than by traffic volume, and the roughly 200 with the broadest coverage are promoted to top-level miners: their own on-chain slot, paid natively, earning more. Shared IPs are split among the fleets that claim them, so unique coverage is what wins. Grow your distinct-IP breadth to climb, and if your reach slips you fall back to the pool.