# Pool catalog sources

The integrated pool catalog was reviewed on **2026-08-30**. Minerstat is used to discover pool operators and compare reward methods, fees and payout thresholds. It is not treated as sufficient proof that a pool is still live because comparison indexes can retain old entries.

Before inclusion, a selected endpoint is checked against a current first-party pool page, operator help page, coin-project guide or published miner configuration. “Reviewed” means the hostname, port, TLS mode and wallet-worker format were checked in those sources; it does not guarantee future uptime, profitability, reputation or payout performance.

## Beginner pool recommendations

Beginner mode uses the lowest-fee existing preset only when it also appears active and suitable for regular wallet payouts. The review on **2026-08-30** changed Monero to [SupportXMR](https://www.hashrate.no/pools/supportxmr) at 0.6% and changed Zephyr and Salvium to HeroMiners at 0.9% ([current HeroMiners comparison](https://www.hashrate.no/pools/herominers), [Salvium operator page](https://salvium.herominers.com/)). These recommendations do not remove or reorder the Advanced-mode pool choices.

The absolute lowest advertised percentage is not used by itself. [EthCore's Raptoreum pool](https://ethcore.ru/pool/rtmpool) advertised 0.5% but showed no pool hashrate or miners, so Beginner mode keeps active FlockPool. Pearl keeps LuckyPool because its active pool hashrate was dramatically larger than the 0%-fee alternative in the [LuckyPool](https://www.hashrate.no/pools/luckypool) and [HeroMiners](https://www.hashrate.no/pools/herominers) comparison. Firo similarly keeps WoolyPooly because the 0.1%-fee Cedric-Crispin alternative was much smaller in the [WoolyPooly](https://www.hashrate.no/pools/woolypooly) and [Cedric-Crispin](https://www.hashrate.no/pools/cedriccrispin) comparison. Pool fees and activity can change, so this remains a dated recommendation rather than a guarantee.

## Discovery pages

- [Minerstat Monero pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/XMR/pools)
- [Minerstat Zephyr pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/ZEPH/pools)
- [Minerstat Raptoreum pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/RTM/pools)
- [Minerstat Ravencoin pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/RVN/pools)
- [Minerstat Epic Cash pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/EPIC/pools)
- [Minerstat Firo pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/FIRO/pools)
- [Minerstat Neoxa pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/NEOX/pools)
- [Minerstat Ergo pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/ERG/pools)
- [Minerstat Ethereum Classic pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/ETC/pools)
- [Minerstat Zano pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/ZANO/pools)
- [Minerstat Vertcoin pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/VTC/pools)
- [Minerstat Evrmore pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/EVR/pools)
- [Minerstat Meowcoin pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/MEWC/pools)
- [Minerstat Salvium pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/SAL/pools)
- [Minerstat Neurai pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/XNA/pools)
- [Minerstat Beam pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/BEAM/pools)
- [Minerstat Karlsen pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/KLS/pools)
- [Minerstat VerusCoin pools](https://minerstat.com/coin/VRSC/pools)
- [Hashrate.no Qubitcoin pools](https://hashrate.no/coins/QTC/pools) and [markets](https://hashrate.no/coins/QTC/markets) for current ecosystem discovery. Many listed exchanges support ordinary on-chain deposits, but users still need to confirm the exact QTC network, minimum deposit and any memo or tag requirements before mining directly to one.

Minerstat currently reports no Xelis pool results, and some very new or niche coins have incomplete comparison coverage. Those routes rely more heavily on current operator documentation.

## Endpoint and wallet-dashboard checks

- [Nanopool](https://nanopool.org/) and its per-coin help pages for current regional hosts, recommended SSL ports and `/account/WALLET` statistics routes.
- [2Miners](https://2miners.com/) and each coin’s live dashboard for regional endpoints and `/account/WALLET` statistics routes.
- [Quai Network mining software and pool documentation](https://docs.qu.ai/guides/miner/pools-software) for KawPow, SRBMiner-MULTI and the current pool list; [2Miners Quai KawPow help](https://quaikawpow.2miners.com/help) for regional ports, TLS ports, `wallet.worker` syntax and direct wallet statistics.
- [EpicMine Get Started](https://epicmine.io/get-started) and [EpicMine FAQ](https://epicmine.io/faq) for SRBMiner support, the account requirement, username/worker rules, regional TLS configuration and account-dashboard payout management.
- [Kryptex Pool](https://pool.kryptex.com/) and current per-coin start-mining pages for regional endpoints and wallet-worker syntax.
- [FlockPool start-mining guide](https://flockpool.com/start-mining) for Raptoreum TLS endpoints; the confirmed public miner route is `/miners/rtm/WALLET`.
- [Firo official mining guide](https://firo.org/guide/how-to-mine-firo.html) for the current FiroPoW pool list and connection ports.
- [Neoxa mining guide](https://neoxa.net/mining/) and [official Neoxa pool](https://mine.neoxa.net/) for the official KawPow route.
- [HeroMiners](https://herominers.com/) per-coin start pages for wallet-based regional endpoints, including the current Monero, Zephyr, Ethereum Classic and Zano Singapore configurations added in 0.5.0-beta.2. HeroMiners currently publishes no Raptoreum or Firo pool configuration, so no presets are claimed for those coins.
- [ZanoPool](https://zanopool.com/) for its published SRBMiner ProgPowZ configuration.
- [K1Pool Xelis guide](https://k1pool.com/pool/xel/how-to-start) and [MinerLab Xelis](https://minerlab.io/xelis) for XelisHashV3 endpoints.
- [WoolyPooly](https://woolypooly.com/) per-coin pages for Firo, Zano and Xelis endpoints and `/wallet/WALLET` statistics routes.
- [SRBMiner-MULTI support table](https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/blob/master/Readme) and [multi-algorithm examples](https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/blob/master/examples.md) for current algorithm names, developer fees, Quai KawPow, Epic RandomEpic/ProgPow Epic and periodic-job options.
- [Qubitcoin source](https://github.com/super-quantum/qubitcoin), [official web wallet](https://wallet.superquantum.io/), [LuckyPool Qubitcoin guide](https://qtc.luckypool.io/how-to-mine) and [wallet-statistics page](https://qtc.luckypool.io/miner-stats) for QHash, current `1`/`3`/`bc1` address forms, the wallet-worker route and on-site wallet lookup. [SRBMiner-MULTI's support table](https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi/blob/master/Readme) confirms QHash support for AMD, NVIDIA and Intel GPUs and its 1.5% developer fee. K1Pool and Suprnova are not exposed as simple wallet presets because their current setup is account-based.
- [Cedric-Crispin Vertcoin](https://vertcoin.cedric-crispin.com/start-mining/) and [Meowcoin](https://meowcoin.cedric-crispin.com/start-mining/) start pages for their TLS ports and `wallet.worker` syntax.
- [zpool](https://zpool.ca/) and its Verthash, EvrProgPow and MeowPow pages for regional algorithm hosts, TLS port transformation, payout-currency passwords and `/wallet/WALLET` statistics routes.
- [Salvium’s official pool list](https://salvium.io/pools/), [Salvium One migration guide](https://docs.salvium.io/THE%20PROJECT/sal-one/), [Kryptex Salvium](https://pool.kryptex.com/sal), [HeroMiners Salvium](https://salvium.herominers.com/) and [MiningOcean Salvium](https://salvium.miningocean.org/) for current RandomX endpoints and the required `SC1` address format.
- [Neurai mining guide](https://neurai.org/mining/) and [2Miners Neurai help](https://xna.2miners.com/help) for KawPow, the XNA wallet form and regional SSL ports.
- [QRL pool-mining guide](https://docs.theqrl.org/use/mining/pool-mining/), [QRL wallet guide](https://docs.theqrl.org/use/wallet/overview/) and [HeroMiners QRL](https://qrl.herominers.com/) for RandomX, public Q-addresses and the current community-pool route. QRL operates no official pool.
- [MO-Miner direct-pool examples](https://github.com/MoneroOcean/mo-miner#direct-pool-mining) for Beam/beamhash3 and Karlsen/karlsenhashv2 command formats and initial endpoints. Its older Flux example is intentionally not exposed because Flux ended traditional proof-of-work mining in October 2025.
- [BzMiner official repository](https://github.com/bzminer/bzminer) and [reviewed v100.04b1 release](https://github.com/bzminer/bzminer/releases/tag/v100.04b1) for Warthog's combined CPU/GPU requirements, 48-character hexadecimal wallet form, command format, 2% upstream fee, local API and published Windows archive SHA-256.
- [HeroMiners Warthog](https://warthog.herominers.com/) for the Australia and Singapore WART endpoints, listed 0.9% fee and 0.1 WART minimum payout. [WoolyPooly Warthog](https://woolypooly.com/en/coin/wart) is the alternate Singapore route and currently lists a 0.9% fee and 1 WART minimum payout.
- [2Miners Beam help](https://beam.2miners.com/help) for current Europe, North America and Asia SSL endpoints and wallet-worker syntax.
- [Karlsen reference implementation](https://github.com/karlsen-network/rusty-karlsen) for the current KarlsenHashV2 algorithm and mainnet address prefix.
- [Verus mining documentation](https://wiki.verus.io/#!how-to/how-to_mining.md) and [LuckPool Verus connect page](https://luckpool.net/verus/connect.html) for VerusHash CPU mining, regional TLS endpoints, `wallet.worker` credentials and the public `miner.html?WALLET` statistics route.
- [zpool algorithm status](https://zpool.ca/api/status) and regional connection documentation for the current VerusHash TLS hosts, ports, payout-currency passwords and `/wallet/WALLET` statistics route.
- [2Miners’ Flux shutdown notice](https://2miners.com/blog/october-2025-work-progress-the-end-of-flux-mining/) for the October 20, 2025 end of traditional Flux proof-of-work mining.

Pool operators control their own fees, reward methods, minimum payouts, regions, terms and availability. Review the selected pool before committing substantial hashpower. A future production launcher should move this list into a signed, updateable manifest with automated health checks rather than requiring an application update.
