Work in progress April 2026: New homepage, Quai Pool and reduced rewards

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April 2026 work progress report 2Miners

New 2Miners homepage design

The 2miners.com homepage has been completely redesigned. The new layout is faster, cleaner, and built around what miners actually look for on the first page: quick access to supported coins, pool stats, and mining settings. Take a look and let me know what you think.

New 2Miners homepage design with redesigned full grid and real-time statistics

Quai Network (QUAI) — a new mining pool

2Miners has launched a mining pool for Quai Network with two algorithms. SHA-256 ASIC miners and cowpaw For GPU devices. Both full and solo are available throughout Europe, America and Asia. A full setup guide can be found in the Quai Mining Announcement.

SHA-256 pool: 1% commission, minimum payout of 50 QUAI, paid every 2 hours
SHA-256 only: 1.5% commission, same payment terms
KawPow Pool: 1% commission, minimum payout of 50 QUAI, paid every 2 hours
For KawPow only: 1.5% commission, same payment terms

Full dashboard: QUAI SHA-256 and QUAI KawPow. Estimate the profitability of your hardware with 2CryptoCalc.

Quai SHA-256 SOLO mining pool dashboard by 2Miners

Zcash (ZEC) Node Update: Version 6.12.1

We updated our Zcash nodes to zcashd v6.12.1, released on April 17th. This is a security release that fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause nodes to crash, deviate from agreements with Zebra, or disable the defense-in-depth provided by pool turnstile inspection.

The issue was reported privately by white hacker researcher Alex “Scalar” Sol and addressed through a coordinated disclosure by engineers at Shielded Labs, the Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), and the Zcash Foundation in collaboration with mining pools.

Vulnerabilities resolved:

orchard deals rk Encoding the identity point of the Pallas curve may cause zcashd to panic during proof verification. Resolved by rejecting identity rk Before confirmation.
that epic (Temporary public key) Each Orchard operation requires encoding a de-identifying point. Zebra implemented this. zcashd did not — it created a potential consensus split. It has now been rejected.
Duplicate block headers can automatically reset the pool balance tracking fields, disabling ZIP 209 turnstile enforcement. Pool value initialization now occurs after checking for duplicate data.
The same bug can cause full deltas per corrupt block to persist on disk. This release adds a chain supply checkpoint upon NU6.1 activation that covers all value pools and recalculates shielding pool deltas from block data at launch.

Related changes strengthen pool balance accumulation for signed integer overflows and improve exception safety for value calculations. Mining of ZEC Pool and ZEC SOLO will continue without interruption.

Caspar (KAS) block reward reduction

Kaspa suffered another scheduled block reward reduction in April, as defined by Kaspa token economics, the Crescendo hard fork, and the official issuance schedule.

Previous rewards: 3.086 what
New rewards: 2.914 KAS

Please be careful! Kaspa mining profitability has changed. We have already updated 2CryptoCalc to reflect the new reward values. Mining is possible in KAS Pool and KAS SOLO.

Ergo (ERG) block reward reduction

Following the Ergo emission schedule defined in EIP-27, the network underwent a scheduled block reward reduction in April. Unlike Kaspa’s gradual monthly decline, Ergo’s decline occurs in larger steps, and this time the reward is halved.