Tether’s mining toolkit wins backing from 15 Bitcoin mining companies

Operators, ASIC manufacturers, and pools have committed to building and maintaining integrations with Tether's open-source MDK Bitcoin mining has a compatibility problem. Machines from different manufacturers, pools with their own interfaces, and operators juggling separate tools rarely play nicely together. Tether thinks it has a fix, and now 15 industry players have signed on to help build it. On October 24, 2026, the stablecoin issuer announced that a group of mining operators, ASIC manufacturers, and mining pools have committed to building and maintaining integrations with its Mining Development Kit, or MDK. The MDK is an open-source framework.