Canxium Cross-Mining Program Standards for Kaspa Mining Pools ​

To ensure fair and reasonable distribution of CAU rewards, Kaspa mining pools must adhere to the following standards to participate in the Canxium cross-mining program:

1. Infrastructure Support ​

• The mining pool must have the necessary infrastructure to support cross-mining and properly detect and process CAU rewards.

2. Address Update Feature ​

• The pool must provide a feature that allows miners to update their CAU receiving addresses.
• This ensures that miners can directly receive their CAU rewards without additional intervention.

3. Direct CAU Distribution ​

• The pool must directly distribute CAU to miners.
• CAU rewards cannot be arbitrarily converted to another cryptocurrency before distribution.

4. Handling Miners Without CAU Addresses ​

If a miner does not provide a CAU receiving address:

• The mining pool may withhold up to 2.5% of the miner’s CAU reward.
• The remainder must be burned or redistributed to miners who provided CAU addresses.
• Distributions may be made in real-time to incentivize other miners or retained as rewards for future miner incentive programs. This is discretionary, but the withheld CAU cannot be seized by the pool.

This is one of the most important criteria that must be met. This ensures that the large amount of CAU from non-participating miners is properly handled to maintain decentralization and fair CAU distribution.

5. Testing and Deployment Limitations ​

• During system testing and deployment, the pool may use miners' hashrate to mine CAU for up to 3 days.
• If implementation is not completed within 3 days, the pool must pause CAU cross-mining until it officially announces support for cross-mining to the community.

6. Dedicated Canxium Receiving Address & Transparency ​

• The pool must provide and use only one Canxium address to receive cross-mined CAU rewards.
• Any non-transparent activity, if detected, will result in a permanent ban from the program.
• If the address needs to be changed, the pool must notify the Canxium team so the data can be updated on scan.canxium.org.

7. Pool Identity Verification ​

• Mining pools must publicly disclose their identity, including their official website and contact details.
• Anonymous or unverifiable pools will not be eligible to participate.
• Solo mining pools are free to operate without any constraints herein.
• A solo mining pool is a pool that provides mining services directly to miners without withholding any portion of the rewards.

8. Reward Consistency Monitoring ​

Pools will be monitored to detect unusual reward distributions, such as:

• Inconsistent payout ratios.
• Large pools disproportionately keeping CAU rewards.
• Any evidence of unfair manipulation.

If inconsistencies are found, the pool must provide justification or risk suspension.

9. Emergency Response and Blacklisting ​

If a pool violates any of the rules or engages in fraudulent activities:

• It will be blacklisted from future Canxium cross-mining programs.
• A public announcement will be made to warn miners and other pools.
• Canxium reserves the right to take immediate action if necessary.

10. Community-Driven Dispute Resolution ​

• If miners suspect a pool is manipulating rewards or not following the rules, they can submit a report to [email protected].
• A community review process can be established where independent validators check the complaint before taking action.

11. Cross-Mining Service Fees ​

• Cross-mining service fees for miners must be made public.
• Pools must clearly disclose any fees associated with cross-mining services, ensuring full transparency for miners.

Future Updates ​

These criteria may be updated, added, or removed in the future, but any changes will be announced in advance to give mining pools sufficient time to update.

These rules ensure fairness, transparency, and efficiency in Canxium’s cross-mining program, benefiting both miners and pools.