Blockle Guide

Everything you can do with BLOCK — the universal auxiliary chain — in one place: get a wallet, mine BLOCK directly with any ASIC algorithm, merge-mine it for free alongside a major coin, run your own pool, and explore the chain. Pick a section below.

Contents

1. What BLOCK is · 2. Get a wallet & address · 3. Mine BLOCK directly · 4. Merge-mine via a parent · 5. Solo vs PPLNS · 6. Point your hardware · 7. Send & receive · 8. Run your own pool · 9. Run a parent node · 10. Explorer & APIs · 11. Fees · 12. Troubleshooting · 13. Links

1. What BLOCK is

BLOCK is a layer-1 built to be merge-mined by every major ASIC algorithm. Its consensus accepts a parent block's proof-of-work — SHA-256d, Scrypt, X11, Equihash, Blake2b/2s/3, Eaglesong or kHeavyHash — in place of a native solution, each as an independent difficulty lane. It pays 50 BLOCK per block with Bitcoin-style halvings (210,000-block interval), a 210,000 BLOCK premine, post-quantum signatures (ML-DSA), a shielded pool for private sends, and the Blockle VM. You never mine BLOCK instead of something — you mine it as well.

2. Get a wallet & address

You need a BLOCK address (starts with block1…) to be paid. Get one from the desktop wallet or the CLI.

Desktop wallet: download it from the Wallet page (Linux / Windows / macOS Apple Silicon), launch it, and copy your address from the Receive tab. It embeds a full node and syncs peer-to-peer — your keys never leave your machine.

CLI:

# install the node + wallet binary
cargo install blockle-node

# print a fresh mainnet address
blockle-chain --datadir ~/.blockle --network mainnet address

Back up ~/.blockle/wallet.json (or the desktop wallet's wallet.json) somewhere safe and offline — it is your money. Nobody can recover it for you.

3. Mine BLOCK directly

Point any supported ASIC or GPU straight at a BLOCK pool. The block reward lands in your coinbase (solo) or is shared by the pool (PPLNS). Use your block1… address as the stratum username; the password can be anything (x).

Native Equihash (200,9) — Zcash-class ASICs (Z15) and GPU miners (EWBF / lolMiner):

stratum+tcp://blockle.org:3333     # Solo
stratum+tcp://blockle.org:3334     # PPLNS
username: your block1… address   password: x

Dedicated direct pool for every ASIC algorithm — one stratum port per lane, solo and PPLNS:

All ports are on blockle.org, e.g. stratum+tcp://blockle.org:3340. These are direct BLOCK pools — you are mining BLOCK only, no parent coin involved. See every pool with live stats on the Mine page.

4. Merge-mine BLOCK via a parent coin

This is the point of BLOCK. Point your hardware at a parent pool and you mine the parent coin and BLOCK at the same time — the same share counts for both, so BLOCK is free hashrate. Your stratum username is your payout address on the parent chain (that's the coin you're paid in); BLOCK is merge-mined alongside every block the pool finds.

More parent pools (Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, eCash, Syscoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin) come online automatically as their nodes finish syncing on our server — the live set is always on the Mine page, grouped by algorithm. Example: connect an L7 to the Litecoin pool when it is live and you mine LTC + BLOCK together.

# example: mine Dash + BLOCK (PPLNS), paid in DASH
stratum+tcp://blockle.org:3376
username: your Dash (X…) address   password: x

5. Solo vs PPLNS — which to pick

Solo — when you find a block you keep the entire reward (the coinbase pays the finder directly). High variance: you may wait a long time, then get a whole block at once. Best for large hashrate.

PPLNS — payouts are shared across recent contributors weighted by submitted shares, paid out from blocks the pool finds. Steadier, lower-variance income. Best for small and mid-size miners.

Both carry the same 1% fee (see Fees). Every algorithm and every parent pool offers both — just pick the matching port above.

6. Point your hardware (quick recipes)

In your miner's pool/stratum settings, set URL, worker/username, and password. Version-rolling (BIP-310) and vardiff are negotiated automatically.

Rule of thumb: a :334x/:336x port = direct BLOCK (username is a BLOCK address); a parent port (Perbug/Dash and friends) = you're paid in the parent coin, so the username is your parent address.

7. Send & receive BLOCK

In the desktop wallet: Receive shows your address and a QR code; Send takes a destination address and amount. Toggle shielded for a private, hidden-amount transfer through the STARK shielded pool.

# CLI equivalents
blockle-chain --datadir ~/.blockle balance
blockle-chain --datadir ~/.blockle send block1…recipient 12.5

If a send fails with insufficient spendable funds, your coins may still be maturing (coinbase rewards need confirmations) or you forgot to leave room for the network fee — wait for confirmations or lower the amount.

8. Run your own pool & merge-mine BLOCK

Already run a pool on Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Zcash — or any chain on a supported algorithm? Add BLOCK to every block you mine and your miners earn it for free. Two paths:

A. Use the Blockle pool engine (adapters, stratum, payouts, dashboard built in):

# 1. generate a pool config pointed at your parent node's RPC
blockle add-chain --name Litecoin \
  --rpc http://user:pass@127.0.0.1:9332/ \
  --out ltc.toml --scheme pplns \
  --stratum 0.0.0.0:3374 --dashboard 127.0.0.1:4874 \
  --fee 1.0 --blockle-address block1…yourpooladdr

# 2. add BLOCK as an aux chain in ltc.toml
#    [[chain.aux]]
#    name = "BLOCK"
#    rpc = "http://blockle.org:8445/"
#    chain_id = 16972
#    payout_address = "block1…yourpooladdr"
#    algorithm = "scrypt"

# 3. run it, then register so it appears in the public directory
blockle serve ltc.toml
blockle register --config ltc.toml --biz https://blockle.org \
  --public-stratum blockle.org:3374

B. Bring your own pool software — talk to BLOCK's merged-mining work API directly (Namecoin-style, chain id 16972):

# discover the lanes BLOCK accepts
curl -s http://blockle.org:8445/ -d '{"method":"getauxchaininfo","params":[]}'
# → {"chainid":16972,"algorithms":["sha256d","scrypt","x11","blake2b","blake2s","blake3","eaglesong","kheavyhash","equihash"]}

# fetch aux work for your payout address + your parent algorithm
curl -s http://blockle.org:8445/ -d '{"method":"createauxblock","params":["block1…pooladdr","scrypt"]}'

# submit when your parent block commits the BLOCK hash
curl -s http://blockle.org:8445/ -d '{"method":"submitauxblock","params":["…hash…", {"parent_algo":"scrypt","parent_header":[],"parent_coinbase":[],"coinbase_branch":[],"chain_branch":[],"chain_index":0}]}'

Full validation rules: chain/crates/chain/src/chain.rs · check_aux_pow in the source.

9. Run a parent node (pruned)

Pools need a parent daemon serving getblocktemplate. Pruned nodes work fine for mining (no history required) and keep disk small enough to run several on one box.

# generate a pruned config + systemd unit for a parent coin
blockle parent-node --coin litecoin --prune 2000 --out ./ltc-node

# supported: bitcoin · litecoin · dogecoin · dash · bitcoincash · digibyte
# then install the official daemon, start it, and point add-chain at its RPC

For a block explorer, use the built-in blockle explorer --rpc … (Bitcoin-family) or Eiquidus against the node's JSON-RPC.

10. Explorer & APIs

Browse blocks, transactions and addresses — including each block's merged-mining proof and lane — on the BLOCK explorer. Search by height, block hash, txid or block1… address.

Every pool exposes MiningPoolStats-compatible JSON and BLOCK runs a Bitcoin-compatible JSON-RPC (getblockchaininfo, getblock, getrawtransaction, …) so existing tooling works unchanged. See the API page for endpoints and the Developers page for integration.

11. Fees

A flat 1% fee on every pool — solo and PPLNS, BLOCK-direct and every parent chain, no exceptions. The merge-mined BLOCK you earn on a parent pool carries no extra fee.

12. Troubleshooting

13. Links

Mine · Explorer · Wallet · API · Developers · Discord · GitHub · crates.io