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67. Steel: Case Study (Ore Mining Protocol Architecture)

How Steel powers proof-of-work mining on Solana.

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Ore uses Steel to handle millions of miner hashing submissions with extreme compute unit efficiency, zero-copy board state updates, and deterministic PDA rewards.

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1. Why was Steel built specifically for the Ore project?
To handle intense compute-constrained mining verification with zero-copy efficiency and clean code structureTo build a DEXTo create an NFT marketplaceTo port Solidity code
2. What role does zero-copy memory mapping play in Ore's mining state?
Allows reading and mutating complex board and miner state in-place without memory allocationEncrypts mining hashesMakes mining freeSaves network bandwidth

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