Fail-closed, on purpose
Leave the Dogecoin address out and the pool refuses the connection. It will not quietly mine you into a Dogecoin block it has no way to pay. A rejected login is recoverable; an unpayable block is not.
Litecoin / Dogecoin merged
One hash,
checked against
two chains.
NexusPool runs Litecoin as a solo lottery. Dogecoin rides along on the same hash through AuxPoW. You send one share. It gets graded twice.
- Fee
- 0%
- Block to finder
- 100%
- Custody
- Non-custodial
- Payout path
- On-chain, your address
The hash is computed once.
It is read twice.
Merged mining is not two jobs. Litecoin is the chain being mined. Dogecoin accepts the same Litecoin work as its own proof, so a single scrypt hash can clear two different targets in the same instant. A Litecoin block pays 6.25 LTC to the miner who found it. A Dogecoin block pays 10,000 DOGE. Each is its own lottery against its own target.
Fig. 01 · The Litecoin leg is the chain being mined. The Dogecoin leg is carried.
Four things a share can do.
Each submitted share is measured against the Litecoin target, and off that same hash against the Dogecoin aux target. Both, either, or neither can be satisfied. The aux leg exists only because Litecoin did the work.
| Share meets | Litecoin | Dogecoin | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent target | yes | no | Litecoin block. 6.25 LTC to the finder. |
| Aux target | no | yes | Dogecoin block. 10,000 DOGE to the finder. |
| Both targets | yes | yes | Both blocks, from the single share. |
| Neither | no | no | Nothing. The share is still counted and receipted. |
Two addresses. Both required.
The username field tells each chain where to pay. Litecoin address first, Dogecoin address second, worker name last. If your firmware’s username field is too short for both, send the Dogecoin address in the password field instead, as doge=<doge-address>. That fallback works on Stratum V1 only.
username <ltc-address>.<doge-address>.<worker>
password xWhen the Dogecoin leg is down
Merged mining needs our Dogecoin node to be caught up and handing out work. While that node is syncing or unreachable, your miner keeps working on Litecoin exactly as before and nothing on the Litecoin side changes. What stops is the second check: during that window no Dogecoin proof is being stamped, so the Dogecoin lottery is not running for anyone. We keep asking for the address anyway, because the login rules should not shift under a miner that is already connected.
Stratum V1 and V2, native
V1 works with anything that speaks it. V2 runs over Noise, encrypted and authenticated. The authority key is published so you can pin it before you ever send a share.
What works here
Any Scrypt miner, on stock firmware. Scrypt is the algorithm both chains share, so the same hardware that mines Litecoin carries the Dogecoin leg too. Point it at the host below and put both addresses in the username.
- Host
- lite.nexuspool.io
- Port · Stratum V1
- 3354
- Stratum V2 · endpoint
- lite.nexuspool.io:3354
- Username
- <ltc-address>.<doge-address>.<worker>
- Password
- x · or doge=<doge-address> if your firmware has no room for it in username (Stratum V1 only)
- Encryption
- Noise · BIP340
Authority pubkey. Pin this.
hex · NexusPool ref-miner
450a714033c4b01731820bca8c32f00f3eb72c56c14b3c8b43cb0a7d0f357387
base58check · standard SV2 clients
9b9yiWg7S5sB4aS7wQ3SLpcbFCmvuFuW6CJyubTdcyoihBcT7Bg
standard URL · paste into any SV2 client
stratum2+tcp://lite.nexuspool.io:3354/9b9yiWg7S5sB4aS7wQ3SLpcbFCmvuFuW6CJyubTdcyoihBcT7Bg
Your hash, your keys,
your receipts.
0% fee
The pool takes nothing. 100% of the block goes to whoever found it, on both legs.
Non-custodial
Coins are never routed through a pool wallet. A found block pays on-chain, straight to the addresses you supplied. Nothing accrues on our side, so there is no pool balance to leave behind if you point your miners somewhere else.
Glass Ledger
Signed proof-of-custody receipts for the work the pool counted. Pull yours from the Glass Ledger and check the signature offline, on your own machine, with a verifier that installs nothing.
This is a lottery. Here is the whole formula.
p=1D · 232
That is the entire model. We don’t publish an expected payout, a projected interval, or a break-even table, because none of those are knowable for a single miner. The merged setup doesn’t change p for Litecoin. It adds a second p on Dogecoin, off the same work.
The pool, live.
Public figures, straight from the pool. The full per-rig stats open once a miner of yours connects.
- Pool hashrate
- 0 H/s
- Workers online
- —
- Users
- —
- Blocks found
- —
- Best ever difficulty
- —
- Avg time to block · whole pool
- ∞
- Dogecoin blocks found
- —
Pool hashrate
Accumulating hashrate data…
Updates as miners submit shares
Litecoin network
- Block height
- —
- Network hashrate
- —
- Difficulty
- —
- Pool share
- —
- Block subsidy
- 6.25 LTC
Dogecoin network
We only publish Dogecoin figures while we can confirm the leg is stamping AuxPoW. Right now we can’t, so they’re withheld. Litecoin mining is unaffected either way.
- Block reward
- 10,000 DOGE
Merged mining, answered straight.
How the Dogecoin leg of a Litecoin merged mining pool actually works, and what we can and can’t promise about it.
Litecoin is the chain actually being mined. Dogecoin is merge-mined on top of it through AuxPoW: the same proof of work gets checked a second time against Dogecoin's own target. That's a second independent lottery off the same hashing, not better odds on either chain. If you hit a Dogecoin block and never gave us a Dogecoin address, there's no address to put on it. So the pool rejects the connection instead of mining you into a Dogecoin block it can't pay.
It's a Litecoin merged mining pool. One Scrypt hash gets checked against two targets. Clear Litecoin's target and you've found a Litecoin block. The same hash is also checked against Dogecoin's target, and clearing that one finds a Dogecoin block, via AuxPoW. That's a second independent lottery off the same work. It doesn't improve your odds on either chain: each one stays p = 1/(D · 2³²) against its own difficulty. One miner, same power draw.
Yes. Any Scrypt Stratum V1/V2 miner pointed at this pool does both automatically once both addresses are set. There is no separate connection and no separate difficulty to configure for Dogecoin. It is one stratum session, and the same work gets checked against both chains as two independent lotteries, not as better odds on either one.
No. The Dogecoin check rides on the identical hash your hardware already produces for Litecoin. Your hashrate, your power draw and your Litecoin share rate are unaffected. What changes is that the same work now gets measured against two targets instead of one. That is two independent lotteries, not two workloads.
No. Both Litecoin and Dogecoin mining stay exactly what solo mining always is: a lottery. The probability of any single attempt clearing a chain's target is p = 1 / (D · 2³²), where D is that chain's own difficulty. That holds independently for Litecoin and for Dogecoin. Merged mining gives you a second independent lottery ticket off the same work, not better odds on either one, and never a promised payout, frequency, or return.
NexusPool signs a Glass Ledger receipt covering the hashes it counted for you. That receipt is cryptographic proof of custody. You check the signature offline with a standalone tool, against the pool's published authority key, so you're not taking the dashboard's word for it. We can't change your luck. We can prove we didn't lose your work.
Our Dogecoin node runs independently from our Litecoin node, and we cannot reliably report its status yet. Until we can, we withhold live Dogecoin figures (height and difficulty) rather than publish a number we would have to guess at. Litecoin mining and block finding are unaffected.
Any Scrypt miner that speaks Stratum V1 or V2. Scrypt is the algorithm both chains share, so nothing needs a custom firmware branch. Point it at the host below, use the two-address username format, and it mines both chains the same way it would mine Litecoin alone.