Seeker Summer hits its final stretch: Solana Mobile taps Offline Protocol’s MINE for Round 4

In Brief:

• Round 4 of Seeker Summer is underway at Solana Mobile, kicking off with MINE by Offline Protocol, now available in the Solana dApp Store.
• Players start with two quests: linking a Seed Vault Wallet, then mining the mesh network for 10 minutes.
• This is the campaign’s last two-week round, following three rounds that have handed out 81 million SKR in total.

MINE by Offline Protocol is the app that launches Seeker Summer Round 4 for Solana Mobile, and it can already be downloaded from the Solana dApp Store.

Players have two quests to work through. Connecting a Seed Vault Wallet clears “Signal Found,” while “Start Digging” is completed by mining the mesh network for 10 minutes.

With Round 4, the Seeker Season 2 campaign reaches its end; the whole run spans July 7 to Aug. 30. Organizers split it into four two-week rounds, each spotlighting four selected apps that are unveiled one per day. Every app comes with a pair of quests, and finishing one hands over a badge marked with the app name, the quest and the date. Those badges live in the dApp Store and under the Activity Tracking tab of the Seed Vault Wallet.

What MINE does

What MINE effectively does is convert a phone into a relay node. Messages and data travel over Bluetooth and WiFi Direct, no internet connection needed, and discovery of nearby devices starts once the user taps Start Mining on the home screen. Minimizing the app doesn’t stop it: a low-power background service carries on, flagged by a persistent “Mesh Active” notification.

There are several ways to rack up points. Bonuses are attached to daily, weekly and monthly missions. Walking into zones flagged on the network map sets off location-based geo missions. Earnings get multiplied by daily streaks, payouts follow when friends register through referral codes or QR shares, and a global leaderboard is in place too.

Either an Ethereum or a Solana address can be linked to the wallet. No token is live yet; points are simply logged for a future on-chain distribution. Permissions requested by the app cover Bluetooth, background location and notifications.

The SKR math so far

For Round 3, Solana Mobile set aside 29 million SKR, with claims opening in the Seed Vault Wallet on Aug. 13 at 4 p.m. UTC. The rounds before it pulled 27 million and 25 million respectively, a pattern of 2 million more per round. Across those three rounds, the total comes to 81 million SKR.

No allocation figure has been published for Round 4.

Tiers of 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 tokens made up Round 1’s payouts, and the claim window remained open for 30 days. Over half of that opening allocation went straight into staking. When SKR is staked it gets delegated to Guardians — the node operators tasked with verifying Seeker hardware and vetting dApp Store submissions.

Earlier rounds

Four apps and eight quests made up Round 3: Titan Exchange, LootGO, Game Terminal and PumpvilleWorld. The headline app in Round 2 was Moonwalk Fitness (official site), whose “Fuel Up” quest called for depositing 100 MF token and turning it into credits, while “Solo Run” meant creating and taking part in at least one new Solo game. Round 1’s pick was TokenRun by GEODNET.

Offline Protocol’s numbers

According to Offline Protocol’s own site, the network spans more than 350,000 devices in more than 80 countries, with more than 10,000 active mesh clusters and more than 9,000 SDK downloads. OfflineID identities issued are listed at more than 300,000. Every one of those numbers is self-reported by the project.

DORS handles routing, running Bluetooth LE, WiFi Direct, internet, Reticulum and Nostr concurrently while live-scoring each link so traffic takes whichever path is working. Relay stretches to eight hops, and sessions are encrypted with MLS, published as RFC 9420. Handoffs between real-time links take under a second.

Within the Offline Protocol 2.0 stack, MINE is one of seven core products. Alongside it sit OfflineID, OfflinePay for device-to-device transactions, Proof of Location and Diffuse, a hyperlocal journalism product built on verifiable source aggregation. Proof of Location is under development as an AVS with EigenCloud.

Outage data anchors the company’s pitch: 2025 saw 313 internet shutdowns spread across 52 countries, and blackouts cost the global economy $19.7 billion.

Project investor Portal Ventures said “The vision of Offline Protocol is particularly contrarian.”