of stratum v2 working group I’m announcing it today ANTPOOL, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, Spiderpool, MARA Foundation, DMND has joined the working group to advance the adoption of the Stratum v2 protocol.
This working group was founded in 2022 by Brainins and Spiral to develop and maintain the Stratum v2 protocol as an open, vendor-neutral specification that can be used in the Bitcoin mining ecosystem. This protocol is an upgrade to the original Stratum mining protocol and brings significant efficiency gains, features that can be used to improve privacy, security, and overall decentralization of mining.
The addition of new members, all important players in the mining ecosystem, represents a major step forward in the working group’s progress in ensuring proper functionality and compatibility across large-scale, real-world mining operations. This also shows that there is a growing consensus in the mining ecosystem that Stratum v2 is the direction of the future.
“We are proud to support the wide adoption of Stratum V2. Aligning around open, interoperable standards will enable the industry to work together more effectively and drive greater efficiency, security and decentralization,” said Andy Zhou, CEO of ANTPOOL.
Stratum v2 supports mechanisms to more efficiently manage large miner fleets, is end-to-end encrypted, and allows individual miners to create their own block templates using support pools (among other features).
Kenway Wang, CTO of Spiderpool, said: “Decentralization is core to our mission. Stratum V2 supports this by enabling miner-built templates, which also improves efficiency for miners, especially in bandwidth-constrained environments.”
About the Stratum V2 Working Group
The Stratum V2 Working Group is an open collaboration initiative dedicated to promoting the development, deployment, and interoperability of the Stratum V2 mining protocol. Maintains public specifications and provides a layer of coordination between developers and industry stakeholders.
This article by ANTPOOL, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, Spiderpool, MARA Foundation, DMND Join Stratum v2 Working Group first appeared in Bitcoin Magazine and was written by Shinobi.
