TensorCash (TSC) stratum protocol reference

TensorCash Stratum (TCP)

TensorCash is a proof-of-inference chain: miners do not hash block headers, they execute real LLM inference (currently Qwen3-8B in bf16) and submit the sampling transcript as their share. The pool speaks a TCP stratum dialect adapted for that work — the framing is ordinary line-delimited JSON-RPC, so existing stratum tooling is straightforward to adapt.

Authentication

Authenticate with mining.authorize. The username is your wallet address, optionally followed by a worker name; the password is ignored.

The pool splits at the first dot: the prefix is credited as the miner account, the suffix is the per-rig worker name shown on the dashboard. No registration is needed — mining to an address creates it.

Session flow

1. mining.subscribe — the pool replies with the session identifiers.
2. mining.authorize with your address and worker name.
3. mining.set_difficulty and mining.notify are pushed to you; a fresh job is sent immediately whenever the chain tip changes.
4. Run the inference job on your GPU and return the transcript with mining.submit.
5. Every submission is replayed by the pool's GPU verifiers before it is credited. Accepted work counts as a share under the pool's PPLNS accounting.

Reference implementation

Our miner supr-meow-tsc is the reference client and defines the exact wire format, including the job field layout and error codes. Run it with Docker or the HiveOS package:

• Docker image: ocminersupr/supr-meow-tsc
• Miner source: github.com/ocminer/supr-meow-tsc
• Chain source: git.tensorcash.org/tensorcash
• Project site: tensorcash.org
• Chain explorer: explorer.tensorcash.org

Setup instructions live on the Start Mining page.