MINT Protocol - ROS 2 node for robots to earn crypto for task execution

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Built a ROS 2 package that lets robots earn MINT tokens on Solana for task execution.

Repo: GitHub - FoundryNet/ros-mint

How it works

Node subscribes to /mint/task_start and /mint/task_end topics. Duration between events gets settled on-chain as MINT tokens.

# Launch
ros2 run mint_ros settler --ros-args -p keypair_path:=/path/to/keypair.json

# Your task node publishes:
/mint/task_start  # String: task_id
/mint/task_end    # String: task_id

# MINT settles automatically

Rate

0.005 MINT per second of work. Oracle pays gas - robots pay nothing.

Task Duration MINT Earned
1 minute 0.30 MINT
10 minutes 3.00 MINT
1 hour 18.00 MINT

Links

Machines work. Machines should earn.

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Cool tech! Could you share some ways in which this would be applied? In what kinds of tasks would one benefit from having multiple robots compete for money?

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Sure thing! It’s not that they’re competing for money. It’s that they are getting earnings like a payroll for machines. Verified work time earns currency natively. The goal is to create a sustainable monetary system for autonomous systems.

Use cases:

  • Delivery robot completes a drop → earns MINT

  • Warehouse AMR moves pallets for 8 hours → settles at end of shift

  • 3D printer farm where each printer earns per job

  • Agricultural robots (like that orchard weeder in suggested threads) earning per acre covered

Basically anywhere a machine does measurable work and someone needs to account for value created.