$MESHR

Game points on a test network

$MESHR is the score in MapMinter. It exists on a test network, it cannot be bought or sold, and it has no monetary value. If you arrived here looking for something to invest in, this page is going to disappoint you, and it is written to.

Read this part first

$MESHR exists only on mapminter-testnet-1, a Cosmos test network. A test network is a disposable practice environment.
It has no monetary value, and it is not intended to acquire one.
It is not for sale. There is no sale, no presale, no allocation, no fundraising round, no waiting list and no price. MapMinter will never ask you for money or for a wallet you fund.
It is not an investment, not a security, not a share in anything, and not a claim on anything. Nobody at MapMinter promises that it will ever be tradable or convertible into anything.
Anyone offering to sell you $MESHR, or asking you to send funds or seed phrases to receive it, is defrauding you. There is nothing to buy.

What it is actually for

Mapping coverage is unpaid, slightly tedious work, and the person who drives the empty valley does more for the map than the person who drives the city centre for the tenth time. $MESHR is how that gets counted in the open: a ledger that says who measured what and when, which anyone can read and nobody (including us) can quietly edit afterwards.

That is the whole ambition. It is a scoreboard with a good audit trail, running on a test chain because a test chain is the cheapest honest way to have one.

Why "mint", then

Drive. Map. Mint. In MapMinter, minting means writing a measurement into the ledger: a cell you found, on a date, attributed to you. It is a record being created, not money being created.

How points are awarded

The rewards bridge (the piece that turns measurements into ledger entries) is still being built. The design below is what is being built, described so nobody has to guess, and it may change before it is live.

Hybrid: discovery plus freshness

First-discovery bonus. The first collector to measure a cell nobody has measured before is credited for opening it. This is a one-time credit per cell, and it rewards going where the map is blank.
Daily freshness emission. A fixed daily amount is shared out across the cells that were measured recently, among the collectors who measured them. This is what keeps a two-year-old map from being treated as a current one, and it is why re-driving a known road is still worth something.

Uploads are rate limited and checked for plausibility, and abuse is handled before anything is credited. We do not publish the details of those checks, for the obvious reason.

That is the shape of it. The arithmetic underneath, the two hexagon sizes involved, what makes a measurement count, and a worked example with real numbers are on the rewards page.

Everything you map already counts

Measurements collected before the bridge is live are not lost and do not have to be re-driven. They are stored with the collector that made them and the date they were made, and they are credited retroactively when crediting begins.

In short: there is no launch moment you can miss, and no advantage in waiting to start.

What happens when the testnet resets

Test networks get reset. That is what makes them test networks, and pretending otherwise would be the first dishonest sentence on this page. If mapminter-testnet-1 is reset or replaced, balances are carried across by snapshot: the state is recorded before the reset and restored on the network that follows, so nobody loses the record of work they did.

This is a commitment about bookkeeping, not about value. Carrying a score across a reset does not make the score worth money.

Looking at the ledger

A public block explorer for the test network is being set up. Until it is open, there is nothing to link to and no private preview to ask for.

Block explorer (coming soon)

Questions this page raises

Does $MESHR have any value? No, and the FAQ says so in one more way.
What is a cell, and what makes one fresh?
How much is one afternoon of driving worth? The reward model, with the numbers in it.
How do I start collecting?

A question none of those answers is worth asking out loud. The MapMinter group on Telegram is where the people driving the roads and running the nodes answer each other, and where we answer too.