Stratum V2 is the community-run, open-source reference implementation of the Stratum V2 Bitcoin mining protocol, designed to make mining more efficient, secure, and decentralized. Stratum V2's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #44,967 (top 10%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Stratum V2 implements an upgraded mining communication standard that replaces the older Stratum V1 protocol. Where V1 relied on plain-text, JSON-based messages, Stratum V2 uses binary messaging with encrypted and authenticated transport between miners and pools, closing off vulnerabilities related to traffic inspection and credential-substitution attacks. The Job Declaration Protocol, a core feature of the specification, allows individual miners to construct and propose their own block templates, shifting transaction selection away from pools and toward miners themselves, which strengthens decentralization at the protocol level.
Stratum V2 is governed by the Stratum V2 Working Group, an independent, community-led body with no single controlling entity. Its membership includes AntPool, Auradine, Block, Braiins, DMND, F2Pool, Foundry Digital, MARA Foundation, mempool.space, SpiderPool, and Spiral. The project has received backing from OpenSats, Spiral, Human Rights Foundation, and Vinteum. The public GitHub repository remains actively maintained, with a v1.9.0 release published in May 2026. Stratum V2 has attracted 3,495 followers as of September 2026 across 497 posts. The account has been mentioned by 37 accounts, totaling 170 mentions.
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The accounts that follow Stratum V2 include 110 founders, 7 angel investors, 61 influencers and 1 VCs. Among them are Eric Wall, Adam Back, Lyn Alden, Peter Todd, Dylan LeClair and Alex Gladstein.