DMND is a Bitcoin mining pool that operates as the first fully Stratum V2-native pool, enabling miners to construct their own block templates. DMND's Twitter Score is 20 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #49,136 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
DMND is the trading name of Guru Protocol Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, and was founded by Alejandro De La Torre, who serves as CEO. The pool is built on the open-source Stratum Reference Implementation, using Stratum V2 end-to-end encryption and miner-side block-template construction throughout. DMND works at Guru Protocol Ltd and announced venture financing led by Trammell Venture Partners that took place in Q4 2024.
DMND opened applications for launch-partner miners on March 18, 2025, describing itself as the world's first Stratum V2 Bitcoin mining pool. The project introduced a mining-reward payout system called SLICE, which combines PPLNS-style accounting with Stratum V2 Job Declaration to deliver auditable payouts without hidden fees. On June 25, 2026, DMND mined block 955,318, described as the first known Bitcoin mainnet block produced using Stratum V2 Job Declaration, with GoMining constructing and declaring its own block template.
DMND joined the Stratum V2 Working Group alongside ANTPOOL, Block, F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, and SpiderPool, announced May 7, 2026. DMND is also affiliated with Rootstock Labs, enabling miners to select the Rootstock merge-mining commitment and receive rBTC rewards directly at their own addresses through Stratum V2 Job Declaration. The project published product and protocol updates in July 2026, indicating continued active development. DMND has been mentioned by 14 accounts a total of 27 times. DMND has published 629 posts to date.
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The accounts that follow DMND include 91 founders, 10 angel investors and 53 influencers. Among them are Adam Back, Notsofast, TO, The Bitcoin Historian, Dylan LeClair and David Bailey 2.0mmbtc is the floor.