# Lentern is live — mine Neptune without a traditional pool

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**Created:** [October 5, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/lentern-is-live-mine-neptune-without-a-traditional-pool/403 "2026-10-05T11:31:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://talk.neptune.cash/t/lentern-is-live-mine-neptune-without-a-traditional-pool/403/1 "2026-10-05T11:31:10Z")

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Over the last few months we’ve been working on a simple question:

**Can mining Neptune without a traditional pool be practical and accessible?**

Today, **Lentern is live.**

> **[Lentern — Your block. Your wallet.](https://lentern.io)**
>
> Mine Neptune without a custodial pool. Your GPU searches a block template Lentern prepares; the protocol pays the guesser allocation to the address you chose. Lentern Guesser 1.0.0.

## Why Lentern?

Pools solve a real problem: variance.

They turn rare individual block wins into smaller, more predictable payouts. That’s useful, and Lentern isn’t pretending otherwise.

But there is another side to that model.

Neptune has time-locked mining rewards. With a traditional pool, miners may ultimately depend on the pool’s accounting and future distribution of those rewards.

We wanted another option.

## Your block. Your wallet.

Lentern does not maintain miner balances.

**No account.  
No deposit.  
No pool balance.  
No withdrawal.  
No custody.**

You mine using your own Neptune receiving address.

When you find a winning block, your guesser allocation goes directly to your address according to the Neptune protocol.

At the maximum guesser allocation:

**120 NPT → guesser**  
**8 NPT → composer**

Lentern never holds the guesser’s mining balance.

That means both the spendable and time-locked portions of your mining reward belong to you from the beginning.

## Start mining

Lentern supports **NVIDIA GPUs on Windows, Linux and HiveOS**.

Everything needed to get started is available at:

> **[Lentern — Your block. Your wallet.](https://lentern.io)**
>
> Mine Neptune without a custodial pool. Your GPU searches a block template Lentern prepares; the protocol pays the guesser allocation to the address you chose. Lentern Guesser 1.0.0.

Mining is probabilistic. An expected time to a block is an average, not a deadline. Understand the odds before committing hardware and electricity.

We built Lentern because we think Neptune miners should have another choice:

**Pool the variance — or keep the hunt.**

Feedback from the Neptune community is very welcome.

**Your GPU. Your block. Your wallet.**

_Mine Neptune. Keep the hunt._