Fold for RaiblocksOne
Donate the spare capacity of a computer you already own to disease research, and have the work counted for the RaiblocksOne team. It runs in the background, you can stop it at any time, and it costs nothing but electricity. XRO rewards for folders are live, paid automatically every 12 hours.
Enter this as your Team in Folding@home Web Control. Full steps below.
What Folding@home is
Folding@home is a distributed computing project run by researchers studying how proteins fold and misfold, which underlies diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several cancers. Simulating that is enormously expensive, so instead of one supercomputer the work is split into small pieces and handed out to volunteers' machines. Your computer does a piece, sends the result back, and gets another.
Teams exist so groups can pool their contribution and see it counted together. Joining the RaiblocksOne team costs you nothing and takes about five minutes.
You do not need to own any XRO
Folding is open to anyone with a computer. You do not need a wallet, an account with us, or any cryptocurrency to take part or to be counted toward the team.
What to expect
The rate is around 0.0001 XRO per team point, eased down as the team’s total output grows, so the pool is shared rather than drained. Your share stays strictly proportional to your points, so splitting one machine across several addresses earns the same total.
Payments below 0.001 XRO are carried forward to your next payout rather than dropped. You are credited from the point you are first seen on the team; the one folder already signed up had their earlier work paid in full when rewards launched, but that was a one-off at launch rather than a standing policy.
Who is folding
Read live from the folding service. Points are totals since each folder was first seen on the team.
| # | Folder | Points | Paid (XRO) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loading… | |||
… folder(s), … points between them.
Every payout, on the public ledger
The pool account has never sent XRO to anything except folder payouts, so its send history is the payout log. This table is read from the ledger itself, not from our records.
| When | Amount | Block |
|---|---|---|
| Loading… | ||
Paid from
xro_1d1abgqq8ahyqenb1xm77hten1poo1s7r3dd8oagg7pe1g4h66kruuiarpt5.
This account is expected to move to a dedicated address in future, and this page
will follow it.
Check your own folding
Enter the XRO address you fold under, or the XRO_
token you were issued. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere except the
folding service.
How to join
These steps are for the current version 8 client. Older guides describing config files or a separate control application are out of date.
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Install the client
Download it from the official site and install it like any other application. Windows, macOS and Linux are all supported.
Only ever download it from
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Open Web Control
The client is configured through a web page rather than a desktop window. After installing, open app.foldingathome.org, which talks to the client running on your own machine.
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Set your username and the team number
Where you enter it depends on whether you use a Folding@home Account:
- With an account: set Team in Account Settings. It then applies to every machine you sign in on.
- Without an account: set Team in each machine's Machine Settings, on every machine you want to count.
The team number is 1068422.
In the same place, set your Name (username) to an XRO address you control. It looks like
xro_1abc...and is 64 characters long. Folding@home allows letters, numbers and underscores with no length limit, so an XRO address is a valid username exactly as it is.Use a dedicated address, not your main wallet
Folding@home statistics are public and permanent. Putting an address in your username creates a lasting, searchable link between your folding activity and that address's balance and entire transaction history, which anyone can look up on the explorer.
Make a fresh account in the wallet purely for folding. It costs nothing, and it keeps your main balance out of a public leaderboard.
Paste it, do not type it
Folding@home usernames are case-sensitive, so
xro_1abcandXRO_1ABCcount as two different people. An address typed by hand, or with the case altered, silently becomes a separate account whose work cannot be credited to you. Copy and paste from your wallet every time.Check the number before you save
Team numbers are just integers, and a typo silently credits a different team. Nothing will warn you.
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Set a passkey, optional but worth it
A passkey is a token that ties completed work to you rather than to anyone using the same username. Folding@home only awards the Quick Return Bonus to donors who have one, and that bonus is a large part of the points a fast machine earns. You request one from Folding@home and paste it into the same settings page.
It is not a password and not a wallet key
A Folding@home passkey has nothing to do with your XRO wallet and gives no access to any funds. Keep it private anyway, since it identifies your work.
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Let it run
That is the whole setup. The client picks up work automatically and pauses when you need the machine. Your contribution shows up against the team on the official statistics site within a few hours of finishing your first work unit.
A note on what this costs
Folding uses spare CPU and GPU capacity, which means real electricity and real heat. On a desktop that is usually unremarkable. On a laptop running on battery, or hardware you would rather not run hot, it is worth thinking about first. You can cap how much it uses, or pause it, from the same Web Control page.
What is RaiblocksOne?
If you arrived from the Folding@home team page, here is the short version.
RaiblocksOne (ticker XRO) is a cryptocurrency, a fork of Nano. Sending it is free and settles in seconds. There is no mining, so contributing to the network does not mean burning electricity on proof-of-work: the network is secured by representatives that anyone can run and that anyone can freely choose between.
It was distributed in 2023 by taking a snapshot of the Nano ledger and giving holders the same balance in XRO, rather than through a sale. The remainder is paid out over 30 years to representatives who keep the network running.
The projectWhat XRO is, how it works, and where it came from. WalletOpen-source and browser based. Your keys stay on your device. Run a nodeOne command, about 45 minutes, on x86 or ARM. This is the most useful thing you can do for the network. WhitepaperWhy the project exists and how the economics work.