Seven Major Bitcoin Mining Pools Including Antpool and F2Pool Join Stratum V2 Working Group Today

According to BlockBeats, seven major Bitcoin mining pools—Antpool, F2Pool, Foundry, Spiderpool, Block, MARA Foundation, and DMND—joined the Stratum V2 working group today (May 10), marking an acceleration toward the next-generation open-source protocol for mining.

Stratum V2 introduces end-to-end encryption and allows miners to construct block templates themselves, compared to the current V1 version where pools control transaction packing. Testing shows V2 reduces bandwidth usage by 60% on pools and 70% on miners, while lowering algorithm hijacking risks. The protocol can increase miner revenue by up to 7.4% through lower latency and improved fee selection.