questions
Every answer here ends with the clause of the specification that settles it. Where an answer and the paper disagree, the paper is right.
control
No. The mint authority is revoked in the same transaction that mints the supply, and no freeze authority is set. After that transaction the cap holds at the SPL token level, independently of whether Core's own arithmetic is correct.
In the current program, it can only set two flat lamport fees. There is no instruction to change the authority or fee recipient after initialization. Program upgrades remain possible, so those limits are not guaranteed across future versions. Every fee-charging instruction takes a maximum the user signs and fails rather than exceeding it.
mining
Because weight is deposited units of that token, held in custody by the program. A wallet with no active stake cannot submit at all.
The alternatives were tried. A base weight per wallet is multiplied by generating wallets, which is free. A balance snapshot counts transferable units, which can be walked through prepared wallets and counted more than once.
No. A missed round means no submission and therefore no share of that round. Your stake and your accrued rewards are untouched. Missed rounds are normal enough that the interface reports them in muted text rather than as errors.
Roughly 32 rounds, which is about half an hour at the 60-second cadence. Settlement happens on your next action against that token, so a miner acting every round always settles. Walk away for longer and the unsettled tail is forfeit, staying unmined in the vault.
money
Whenever you are not carrying unsettled round weight. If you submitted in a round that has not settled, the whole position is locked until it does, which is one round length.
Rewards are separate: claim moves them from the emission vault, withdraw returns principal from the stake vault, and the two vaults are different accounts.
Whatever its Raydium pool prices it at. Every launch opens the canonical Raydium pool in the same transaction as the mint, pairing the pooled share of the 150,000-token creator allocation (at least half, chosen at launch) with SOL the creator chooses, so the pool cannot be front-run. The LP tokens belong to the creator and are not locked.
The prepared CORE release sets a 0.3 SOL launch fee and zero platform mining fee, plus Solana transaction fees. Launching also pays Raydium's pool creation fee and whatever SOL you place in the pool. The platform authority can change the Core fees, so read the live amount in your wallet before signing.
No, and there will not be. Consideration plus chance plus prize is the gambling-law test, and a launchpad that meets it in one jurisdiction meets it for every user there. Every share is a deterministic function of the round's budget and the weight in it.
status
Yes. The release program is deployed on mainnet-beta, its on-chain bytes match the reviewed build hash, and the platform is initialized. Launching costs the 0.3 SOL fee in real SOL, so check the network label before signing.
Not published yet. The paper cites the repository path behind each clause so that the claims are checkable by whoever holds the source, which is honest but is not the same as being verifiable by you today.
A question that is not here is either answered in the paper or not answerable yet. Nothing on this site states a figure, a date or a capability the program does not currently have.