How to mine Zano (ZANO)

1Get a wallet

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

• Zano app - desktop, mobile and browser extension

Standard addresses start with Zx; integrated addresses with iZ and auditable ones with aZx.

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.

HeroMiners regions: replace de with fi, ca, us, us2, br, hk, sg, tr, kr, in or au. The same port takes plain and TLS connections. Solo mining: solo:YOUR_WALLET. LuckyPool ports by rig size: 8866 (15-25 MH/s), 8877 (about 100 MH/s), 8888 (about 200 MH/s), 8899 (over 1 GH/s or NiceHash); regional hosts sg.zano.luckypool.io and ca.zano.luckypool.io; no TLS. Kryptex does not host Zano.

3Pick a miner

Zano's own docs use TT-Miner for solo mining against a local node; its fee and current GPU support were not checked. BzMiner and lolMiner do not support Zano.

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 progpow_zano --pool de.zano.herominers.com:1110 --wallet YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER
pause

./SRBMiner-MULTI --disable-cpu --algorithm progpow_zano --pool de.zano.herominers.com:1110 --wallet YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
rigel.exe -a progpowz -o stratum+tcp://de.zano.herominers.com:1110 -u YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER
pause

./rigel -a progpowz -o stratum+tcp://de.zano.herominers.com:1110 -u YOUR_WALLET.YOUR_WORKER

@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"
wildrig.exe --algo progpowz --url stratum+tcp://zano.luckypool.io:8877 --worker YOUR_WORKER --user YOUR_WALLET --pass YOUR_WORKER
pause

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

Zano-specific

• Proof-of-work is scheduled to end. Zano's Zenith upgrade moves to pure proof of stake and, in Zano's words, PoW mining ends when it activates. Testnet is estimated for Q4 2026 and mainnet for Q2 2027 - do not buy hardware for Zano alone.
• Today PoW and PoS blocks alternate, and holders can also stake.
• For solo mining Zano's docs say to sync the chain first and close the desktop wallet before running zanod.

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://zano.org/
• https://zano.org/downloads
• https://docs.zano.org/docs/mine/overview
• https://blog.zano.org/zenith-zanos-move-to-pure-proof-of-stake/
• https://docs.zano.org/docs/mine/solo-guides/solo-mining-windows
• https://zano.herominers.com
• https://zano.luckypool.io
• https://github.com/doktor83/SRBMiner-Multi
• https://github.com/rigelminer/rigel
• https://github.com/andru-kun/wildrig-multi

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