Aleo is a new layer-1 blockchain platform for creating scalable and private applications applying zero-knowledge cryptography. Aleo uses a hybrid consensus architecture named AleoBFT, which leverages PoS to achieve instant finality for block confirmation, and leverages PoW “coinbase puzzle” that rewards the development of faster techniques for proof generation.
Mining rewards will be settled daily as credits, according to the payout scheme of PPLNS, and then accrue in your f2pool account. Adding of wallets and reward withdrawals are currently not supported, we will send payouts according to Aleo’s follow-up post about the details of the incentives. Please stay tuned for our further announcement.
Please kindly note that, in order to receive incentivized testnet rewards, KYC process is required after launching the mainnet. If f2pool cannot pass through KYC by the Aleo project team, we will not be eligible to receive rewards from the network and thus cannot distribute them to you. Also, we will restrict our services to the regions that are under Aleo official restriction, for more information please check here.
To Learn about the requirements and configuration, please refer to the following steps.
Please note:
Aleo is in the Testnet Beta phase. Previous Aleo Testnet 3 mining details can be found on the f2pool website under “ALEO TESTNET3”. Testnet Beta mining information is under “ALEO”.
1. Obtain suitable hardware and software
✅ Mine Aleo with a high-end AMD CPU and a single Nvidia GPU.
✅ Multi-GPU configurations are not supported.
✅ CPUs with more than 24 cores can also be used.
You need to get the Ubuntu 18.04 or higher operation system ready, and install this mining software (download).
2. Sign up for an f2pool account
You will need to create an f2pool account before mining Aleo on its Testnet Beta. If you do not have one yet, please click here to register.
Setting an account name will be required for configuration. You are free to create multiple subaccounts to monitor your mining machines.
3. Configure mining software
Begin by downloading and extracting the mining software. Next, you will need to execute the commands in Ubuntu.
chmod +x aleo.sh && chmod +x aleo-miner
./aleo.sh stratum+tcp://aleo-asia.f2pool.com:4400 accountname.workername
Before you start:
Ensure to replace accountname with the name of your f2pool account.
Also, you will need to create a customized worker name and assign it to workername.
This workername will function as your miner ID. Feel free to customize it as per your needs. For ease of use, we recommend keeping it within 15 characters, using a combination of lowercase letters or numbers.
If the above command does not start the GPU mining function properly (check with nvidia-smi, if you do not see aleo-miner using the GPU, it means it has not started properly), execute the following commands:
sh
nohup ./aleo-miner -u stratum+tcp://aleo-asia.f2pool.com:4400 -w accountname.workername -d 0
In 3 minutes, the result will be successful if it shows similar as the following example.
2024-06-30 18:03:02.058 INFO Found a solution with target 2878
2024-06-30 18:03:05.393 INFO Found a solution with target 3420
2024-06-30 18:03:07.450 INFO 2.2.0 2096145 perf: 12742 (1m: 111.10 P/s, 5m: --- P/s, 30m: --- P/s, 60m: --- P/s)
2024-06-30 18:03:07.791 INFO 2.2.0 2096215 perf: 11700 (1m: 101.13 P/s, 5m: --- P/s, 30m: --- P/s, 60m: --- P/s)
2024-06-30 18:03:08.279 INFO Found a solution with target 6820
2024-06-30 18:03:08.483 INFO Found a solution with target 2051
2024-06-30 18:03:10.104 INFO Found a solution with target 1080
2024-06-30 18:03:11.396 INFO 2.2.0 2096322 perf: 12704 (1m: 109.58 P/s, 5m: --- P/s, 30m: --- P/s, 60m: --- P/s)
2024-06-30 18:03:11.952 INFO Found a solution with target 2080
2024-06-30 18:03:12.951 INFO 2.2.0 2096392 perf: 11826 (1m: 109.12 P/s, 5m: --- P/s, 30m: --- P/s, 60m: --- P/s)
2024-06-30 18:03:16.888 INFO Found a solution with target 6866
To stop mining, execute the following command:
pkill -9 aleo-miner
4. Start mining!
Your machines are now ready to mine! You can manage your account settings and monitor your hashrate, rewards and so on in your dashboard or in our f2pool app.
If you run into any problems mining Aleo, please feel free to reach out to our customer service team at support@f2pool.com, open a support ticket, or start a conversation on Reddit.
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Happy mining!