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Mining Pools
Business Description
AntPool, a multi-cryptocurrency mining pool operated by Antpool Technologies Holding Company, launched in 2014 as an in-house service of Bitmain Technologies and was spun off in May 2021 as an independent entity under Bitmain co-founder Micree Zhan.
AntPool supports pooled mining across more than 16 proof-of-work networks, including Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Zcash (ZEC), Dash (DASH), Kaspa (KAS), Kadena (KDA), Nervos (CKB), Ravencoin (RVN), Handshake (HNS), Monero (XMR), Alephium (ALPH), EthereumPoW (ETHW), DigiByte (DGB), and Fractal Bitcoin (FB). The platform offers FPPS, PPLNS, PPS, and PPS+ payout schemes with daily automatic settlement and real-time earnings dashboards. A three-tier account architecture covering accounts, sub-accounts, and group-level access handles enterprise fleet management across large mining operations; alert notifications go out via mobile app, email, SMS, and WeChat.
As of May 2026, AntPool's Bitcoin pool hashrate stands at approximately 152 EH/s against a network total of roughly 966 EH/s, a real-time share near 16%. Pool infrastructure runs across 12 data centers on four continents: North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The distributed architecture is designed to sustain millions of concurrent miners and hold network latency in the 5, 40 millisecond range.
AntPool consistently ranks among the two largest Bitcoin mining pools by network hashrate share, alongside Foundry USA Pool. In November 2023, AntPool briefly led the network by mining 1,219 Bitcoin blocks to Foundry's 1,216. Through 2023, 2025, the two pools together accounted for 57, 70% of Bitcoin's total network hashrate, a concentration level that has drawn recurring attention from network decentralization researchers. By early 2026, AntPool's share ranged between approximately 18 and 20%.
Beyond pool operations, Antpool Technologies has built a financial and infrastructure services arm. In January 2022, Antpool Capital Asset Investment L.P. co-formed a joint venture with Applied Blockchain (now Applied Digital Corporation, NASDAQ: APLD) to develop up to 1.5 gigawatts of datacenter hosting capacity across North America, with Applied Digital holding majority ownership and managing site development. In November 2024, Antpool Technologies extended a two-year, $100 million credit facility to Nasdaq-listed miner BitFuFu (FUFU) at 6.5% annual interest, secured by Bitcoin collateral at a 70% loan-to-value ratio. In May 2025, AntPool joined F2Pool and SpiderPool, pools together representing roughly 36, 40% of global Bitcoin hashrate, in a partnership with Bitcoin Layer 2 protocol Bitlayer to support non-standard transactions required for BitVM bridge deployment on the Bitcoin base layer.
