Mine it or buy it. One is cheaper right now.
The same token, two doors. Both prices are read off the chain this second, and the ribbon moves to whichever door costs less.
Mine it
—PLS per EKG
Send PLS to the Mine and EKG arrives instantly. 90 percent of the PLS comes back to you 24 hours later, so this figure is your true net cost per token.
Start miningBuy it on PulseX
—PLS per EKG
The open market price, read straight off the pool's own reserves. No wait and no return. What you pay is exactly what it costs.
Trade on PulseX ↗Reading both prices from the chain…
The name is the machine
EKG
electrocardiogram
The instrument that proves something is alive
An electrocardiogram draws the one line a heart cannot fake. EKG is that instrument pointed at money: every mine, every burn, every dividend is a beat recorded on PulseChain’s own ledger — and this trace only reads in one direction.
369
the arithmetic
Not branding. The numbers of the protocol.
369,000,000 tokens, ever. 36 halvings, each half the last. 90 / 7 / 2 / 1 — returned to you, bought and burned, paid to holders, operations. The name is the contract’s constants, and none of them can be changed.
Why PulseChain. A private payment verifies a zero knowledge proof on chain — dollars in gas on Ethereum, a fraction of a cent here. Ten second blocks, the full EVM toolchain unchanged, and PulseX as the venue the buyback spends into. Privacy that costs $40 a payment is a curiosity; privacy that costs less than a postage stamp is cash.
Payments without a public record
EKG can be sent to any address, in any amount, with no on chain record connecting sender, recipient or amount. The construction is the one Zcash has operated in production since 2016, and it has not previously existed on PulseChain.
Why this matters. A transparent ledger publishes an account’s entire financial history by default. Pay a contractor and their next client can read the invoice. Receive a salary and it is legible to anyone. Hold a balance and anyone who learns the address knows its worth, permanently. Cash has never worked that way. Shielded transfers restore that baseline.
Two rails for the same payment
The trace is the payment. On the open ledger it is legible at every point along the way. Through the Shield it enters the pool, ceases to exist as a readable signal, and re‑emerges wherever the recipient chooses — including an address with no history at all.
A transfer on the open ledger
- Sender
- 0x89…b3c3
- Amount
- 250 EKG
- Recipient
- 0x7f…914d
One row in a public table. Every explorer, every counterparty and every stranger can read it, forever.
The same payment through the Shield
- Sender
- sealed
- Amount
- sealed
- Recipient
- a fresh address
The chain records a valid proof and a new sealed note. Nothing else exists to read.
Notes in the pool
—
every payment hides among all of them
EKG the pool holds
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read from the contract, live
Turnstile
—
held equals owed, checked on chain
Fee
0
no operator, no cut, ever
The Shield ships to mainnet last, on purpose. It runs in full on the PulseChain test network today, and it arrives here only after a real multi party trusted setup ceremony and an independent circuit audit — the honest order of operations for privacy infrastructure. The full design is in the paper.
One machine, no operator
Every component on this page is one moving part of a single closed circuit. PLS enters through the Mine, feeds the market, the holders and the burn, and value leaves only as tokens destroyed or dividends paid. The cash rail runs beside it. Nothing below has an owner, a pause switch or an upgrade path.
The supply engine
- MinerAny wallet, any size
- PLS at the printed rate
- The MinePrices by schedule only. EKG arrives instantly.
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90%back to the miner after 24 hours7%to the buyback2%paid to holders in PLS1%operations
- BuybackPublic, unowned, callable by anyone
- Market buy, 15% gate, 60 seconds apart
- PulseX pairFounding liquidity burned forever. The open market trades here in both directions.
- Every token bought is destroyed
- BurnedSupply only falls
The cash rail
- HoldersPaid in PLS, by balance
- Shield at will
- EKG ShieldPay and get paid like cash
- Sealed order
- ShieldSwapSwap, split, fresh wallets
- Exit at market
- Open marketAnyone, both directions
Why there is no governance section on this site. There is nothing to govern. No parameter can be voted on, no multisig can intervene, no token confers control, and the contracts accept no instruction that is not in this diagram. Governance is a promise that rules might change; the absence of it is the promise that they cannot.
Model a commitment against live rates
Enter an amount and every figure below is computed from rates read off the chain as you type. Nothing is sent, no wallet is connected, and nothing about you leaves the page.
- Tokens received
- —
- Returned after 24 hours
- —ninety percent of the commitment
- Net cost
- —the only portion not returned
- Allocated to buybacks
- —queued to purchase EKG on the open market
- The same commitment after the next halving
- —identical capital, half the tokens
Figures read live from the Mine, the buy and burn, and the PulseX pool. Nothing here is a forecast about any market price.
Every address above is source verified on the explorer. Paste any of them into a node of your own; the site holds no data the chain does not.
Straight answers
The questions people ask most, answered in a sentence or two. Every answer links to the full detail.
What is EKG?
A token on PulseChain that you mine by sending PLS to the Mine contract. You receive EKG instantly, and 90% of the PLS you sent comes back to you after 24 hours. How mining works
What does mining actually cost me?
One tenth of the headline price. The other 90% is set aside the moment you mine and returns to your wallet after 24 hours. You collect it on the Mine page under Your returns.
Where does the other 10% go?
Seven parts buy EKG on PulseX and burn it, two parts are paid to every holder in PLS, and one part funds operations. Against the whole commit that is 90, 7, 2 and 1. The Buyback
Why does the price only go up?
The mint price is set by a fixed schedule inside the contract. It stays flat for a whole halving and doubles at the next one, across 36 halvings. No function exists that can lower it. The schedule
Should I mine it or buy it on PulseX?
Whichever is cheaper right now. The live comparison on this page and the Mine page both show the two prices side by side and mark the cheaper one.
How do holders get paid?
Holding EKG is the only requirement. Your share of every mine accrues in PLS and you claim it on the Mine page under The Pulse, whenever you like.
Who can change the contracts?
No one. There is no owner, no pause switch and no upgrade path, and the founding liquidity was burned at launch so it can never be withdrawn. See the full system
What is the Shield?
Private payments for EKG, built on the same kind of zero knowledge proofs Zcash has used since 2016. It runs on the PulseChain test network today and comes to mainnet after the public trusted setup ceremony and an independent circuit audit.
How do I check all of this myself?
Every contract address is listed at the bottom of this page with a link to the explorer, and the paper explains every mechanism in full.
Verify everything on this page yourself.
The schedule is arithmetic, the contracts are immutable, and every figure above is read from the chain or reproducible from the repository. Nothing here asks to be believed.