There is no mining involved. The community acts as a decentralized validation, diversity, and notary service. One of the patents granted to Dragonchain revolves around loyalty & rewards on blockchain. While the enterprise develops their applications on a private Level 1 Business node, the Dragonchain community and selected partners run their own Level 2 Validation, Level 3 Diversity, and Level 4 Notary nodes. Level 5 nodes are the public checkpoints to external blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Binance Chain. Level 5 nodes can be run and managed by Dragonchain, or the specific blockchain itself through a partner program, bringing interoperability to all blockchains.


For the Dragonchain community members who are running nodes, the amount of TIME each node runner applies to a certain level, determines their rewards.TIME is a loyalty score on top of the DRGN token. For each DRGN held in a non-exchange wallet, they receive 1 TIME loyalty score per day automatically. The more TIME someone applies to a L2, L3, or L4 node, the higher the reward granted when your node is selected through the matchmaking process. Community members securing Dragon Net’s 5 levels of trust can join pooled nodes, or run their own unmanaged nodes.