Aleo Mining Pool Server

Introduction

A mining pool server for the Aleo network.

Why a Standalone Server?

1. I wanted to separate the mining pool part from the network node as ledger syncing sometimes interferes with the mining pool operations.
2. I wanted to use a more efficient network protocol for pool - miner communication.
3. Making too many changes to the snarkOS code could be a bad idea as I still need to sync with upstream code.
4. It's easier to test the mining pool with a standalone server.
5. It's also easier to add more features to a smaller codebase.

Features

1. A stratum-like protocol for pool - miner communication.
2. A good enough automatic difficulty targeting system. (Needs more test under high load)
3. Stats for pool and provers.

State

Still need to implement some more API endpoints and test if it could correctly handle found blocks.

The 0.3 branch of my prover is using the new protocol.

Things to test

• If new blocks can be properly generated
• If the payout system works
• If the difficulty retargeting system works under high load - Works under light load
• If there are no deadlock under high load - Works under light load

Usage

Don't use unless you know what you're doing for now.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later