How to mine Ergo (ERG)

1Get a wallet

You need a Ergo address to receive what you mine. Use an official wallet:

• Ergo wallets (official list) - Ergo Wallet App, Nautilus, Satergo and others; the Ergo node is the reference client

Mainnet addresses are base58 strings starting with 9 (a 51-character P2PK address in Ergo's documentation).

Write the seed phrase down on paper and keep it offline. The miner and the pool only ever need the public address.

2Pick a pool

A pool combines many miners so you get paid steadily instead of waiting to find a whole block. Live fees and payouts for every pool are on the pools table.

Kryptex regions: add -eu, -us, -br, -sg, -hk, -ru or -ae after the coin in the host name (for example erg-eu.kryptex.network). For TLS use port 8021 with stratum+ssl:// (Rigel, BzMiner) or the miner's TLS switch (SRBMiner --tls true, lolMiner --tls on). Kryptex logins are wallet/worker. HeroMiners has servers in many regions: replace de with fr, es, fi, ru, ca, us, us2, us3, br, hk, kr, sg, tr or au. The same port takes plain and TLS connections. Solo mining: solo:YOUR_WALLET.

3Pick a miner

WildRig Multi does not list Autolykos2.

4Set it up

Replace YOUR_WALLET with your address and YOUR_WORKER with a name for this machine. On Windows, save the line as a .bat file in the miner's folder and double-click it. On Linux, run it from the miner's folder.

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
SRBMiner-MULTI.exe --disable-cpu --algorithm autolykos2 --pool erg.kryptex.network:7021 --wallet YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER
pause

./SRBMiner-MULTI --disable-cpu --algorithm autolykos2 --pool erg.kryptex.network:7021 --wallet YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
lolMiner.exe --algo AUTOLYKOS2 --pool erg.kryptex.network:7021 --user YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER
pause

./lolMiner --algo AUTOLYKOS2 --pool erg.kryptex.network:7021 --user YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
rigel.exe -a autolykos2 -o stratum+tcp://erg.kryptex.network:7021 -u YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER
pause

./rigel -a autolykos2 -o stratum+tcp://erg.kryptex.network:7021 -u YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
bzminer.exe -a ergo -p stratum+tcp://erg.kryptex.network:7021 -w YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER
pause

./bzminer -a ergo -p stratum+tcp://erg.kryptex.network:7021 -w YOUR_WALLET/YOUR_WORKER

5Check it works

• Within a few minutes the miner should print accepted shares. Rejected or stale shares above a few percent mean a problem with the connection, the clocks or the pool address.
• Open your pool's dashboard and search for your address. Your worker appears after its first shares; pool hashrate settles over an hour or so.
• Watch temperatures for the first hour: GPU core, hotspot and memory.

Warnings and cautions

Ergo-specific

• VRAM decides whether your card can mine Ergo. The Autolykos2 table grows about 5 % every 51,200 blocks (from block 614,400 until it stops growing at block 4,198,400). Kryptex's DAG calculator shows 7,054 MB on 19 Oct 2026, with 8 GB cards reaching their limit around July 2027 - and Windows keeps roughly 775 MB of VRAM for itself. An 8 GB card is already marginal on Windows; older guides that say 2-4 GB are out of date.
• Miners skip a card without enough memory (BzMiner reports it and moves on), so a missing GPU in the miner's list usually means VRAM.
• Kryptex does not support a custom share difficulty for Ergo.

For every coin

• Download miners only from the official page. Use the GitHub release or website linked in the miner table. Fake miners that steal wallets or mine to someone else are common. Where the developer publishes SHA-256 checksums, compare them before the first start (Windows: Get-FileHash .\file.zip -Algorithm SHA256; Linux: sha256sum file.tar.gz).
• Antivirus warnings. Windows Defender and other antivirus tools flag almost every GPU miner as a "potentially unwanted" program, because malware bundles them. Add a folder exclusion only for a miner you downloaded from its official page and checked, and never turn protection off as a whole.
• Your seed phrase is never needed. A miner and a pool only need your public address. Anyone who asks for your seed (recovery) phrase or private key is trying to steal your coins.
• Power, heat and hardware. Mining runs the card at full load all day. Watch GPU, hotspot and memory temperatures, keep the room ventilated, and do not leave a rig running unattended near anything flammable. A power limit or undervolt usually costs a little hashrate and saves a lot of power. Check that your power supply and cables are rated for the load.
• Profit is an estimate. Price, network hashrate and pool luck change every hour. The calculator shows today's numbers, not a promise. Small coins can be hard to sell, and taxes on mined coins apply in many countries. Nothing here is financial advice.

Sources

Checked 18-19 October 2026. Live numbers above come from the Kryptex and HeroMiners public APIs.

• https://ergoplatform.org
• https://docs.ergoplatform.com/mining/autolykos/
• https://docs.ergoplatform.com/dev/wallet/address/address_types/
• https://ergoplatform.org/en/wallets/
• https://pool.kryptex.com/erg
• https://pool.kryptex.com/erg/api/v1/pool/info
• https://pool.kryptex.com/cfx/dag-size-calculator
• https://ergo.herominers.com
• https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi
• https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases
• https://github.com/rigelminer/rigel
• https://github.com/bzminer/bzminer

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