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Start Mining Animica

Connect to the live Animica Stratum pool, download the right starter bundle for your machine, and launch the miner executable with the detected host and port already wired in.

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Quick Start

1. Get a payout address

Use an Animica wallet address that matches the active network shown on this page.

2. Download your starter bundle

Bundles include animica-miner (.exe on Windows) when available, plus launchers and config files.

3. Run the included launcher

Browsers cannot open local terminals directly. The downloaded launcher does that on your machine after you unpack and run it.

4. Confirm PPS vs SOLO mode

PPS credits accepted shares. SOLO credits only accepted full blocks to the miner who found them.

5. Track pool health

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Unified miner · v1.0.0+ Pre-1.0.0 miners rejected

One command runs everything

The unified animica miner does it all from a single command: it mines ANM, runs AI useful-work, contributes to training, and serves inference — joining the one global model through pool.animica.org. You no longer run separate processes for mining, useful-work, training, and serving.

⛏ Mining

RandomX proof-of-work on your CPU, credited by the pool.

🧹 AI useful-work

Curate, dedupe, embed and index data — CPU-friendly jobs.

🎯 Training

Contribute to fine-tuning the one global model.

⚡ Serving

Serve inference for the shared model and earn ANM.

Update required

The pool rejects pre-1.0.0 miners. Upgrade to the unified animica miner (1.0.0 or newer) before connecting, or your shares will be refused.

Start everything with one command

pip install --upgrade animica
animica up

That's the whole setup. animica up creates your wallet if you don't have one, then a single process joins the pool and contributes mining, useful-work, training, and serving (and Bittensor on qualified GPUs) to the one global model — every reward paid to your Animica address. No flags, no separate daemons.

pool.animica.org is the hub

Manage your miner, watch the global model train, and learn about ENA from one place.

Pool dashboard → Training pools → About ENA →

Connection Builder

Connect your wallet and worker

Payout instructions

Use an Animica wallet address that matches the active network shown on this page.

Worker naming

Worker names are labels only. Keep them short and unique for each machine.

Manual connection string

Use this for power-user miners or if you are wiring your own launch scripts.

stratum+tcp://loading:0

Generated Config

Starter files and commands

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Downloads

Miner bundles per platform

Each bundle contains a launcher, config template, README, and a standalone miner executable when available for that platform.

Download metadata is hosted as static files on this website, with live pool metadata used as a fallback when needed.

Pool Dashboard

Live stats at pool.animica.org

Track pool hashrate, your workers, accepted shares, found blocks, and payouts on the official pool dashboard.

Open pool dashboard →

CLI Quick Path

Dual-mine ANM + XMR

Prefer a terminal? The animica CLI installs from PyPI and includes mining commands — including Monero dual-mining on the same CPU. 

pip install animica
animica miner dual-mine <anm-address> \
  --pool-host pool.animica.org

pip install animica is the complete client — everything to mine, run a node, use the wallet, deploy Python contracts, run animica up, and use the Studio SDK. The native CPU miner (animica-fastpow) ships by default, so this is all most people need.

Want the kitchen sink — Qt desktop-wallet QR codes, the full distributed Studio client (cloudpickle + omni-sdk for on-chain ANM escrow), and all server/operator dependencies pinned — or are you running pool/API infrastructure? Install the extras instead: 

pip install "animica[all]"

Keep the quotes around animica[all] so zsh/macOS does not glob the brackets.

GPU Compute

Bittensor GPU pool

Have GPU capacity? Animica Pool integrates with Bittensor so rigs can earn from AI compute alongside CPU mining. Eligibility and enrollment run through the pool.

Bittensor dashboard →

Miner Tab

Search active and historical miners

Miner names (worker labels), payout addresses, shares, blocks, and credits come from the live pool API.

Miner Name Address Accepted Rejected Blocks Hashrate Credit Mode

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How It Works

Step 1. Get an Animica payout address

Use a wallet that matches the active network. Testnet and devnet addresses should not be reused on mainnet.

Step 2. Download the miner for your computer

The bundle includes the miner, a launcher, and a config template already pointed at the detected Animica Stratum host.

Step 3. Run the included launcher

Windows opens Command Prompt, macOS opens Terminal through the .command file, and Linux uses the included shell script. Launchers prefer the standalone animica-miner binary and fall back to Python only when needed.

Step 4. Your miner connects automatically

Use the live pool endpoint, the reference config snippet, or the downloaded bundle to start streaming jobs from the Animica pool.

Step 5. Track rewards and status

Keep an eye on the live pool status above and your miner terminal output for accepted shares, difficulty updates, and blocks.

Troubleshooting

Pool says offline

Confirm the pool service is running and that the mining webpage is reverse-proxying /api/mining/* to the Stratum API.

Host resolves to localhost

Set ANIMICA_PUBLIC_STRATUM_HOST or ANIMICA_PUBLIC_STRATUM_URL so remote miners get a public endpoint.

Launcher cannot find Python

Install Python 3.10 or newer, reopen your terminal, and rerun the launcher. The bundle is dependency-free and only needs Python.

Wrong network or payout address

The portal warns when you are on testnet or devnet. Use an address that belongs to that network to avoid operator-side payout issues.

FAQ

Can the browser launch my terminal directly?

No. Browsers cannot start arbitrary local terminals. That is why the portal ships platform launchers inside the downloaded bundle instead.

What if I want to use another miner?

Use the generated stratum+tcp://loading:0 endpoint and the manual commands above as your reference for host, port, worker, and payout address.

Does the bundle include checksums?

The portal shows SHA-256 hashes from the website-hosted manifest so you can verify the bundle you downloaded for your platform.

What if I deploy behind nginx?

Keep the website and /api/mining/* on the same public domain when possible. If you split them, set ANIMICA_MINING_API_BASE_URL on the website and ANIMICA_PUBLIC_STRATUM_HOST on the pool service.