Fifteen Bitcoin Mining Firms Back Tether's Open-Source Mining Development Kit

Tether has secured integration commitments from 15 major Bitcoin mining industry participants for its open-source Mining Development Kit (MDK). The initiative, backed by firms including Bitmain, Bitdeer, Canaan, MicroBT, Foundry Digital, F2Pool, Block's Proto, and Luxor Technology, aims to unify fragmented mining environments. Released at version 0.11 during the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, the modular toolkit uses adapter components called Workers to standardize interfaces across diverse hardware. It is designed to support AI automation, including Tether's operational QVAC agent, with a stable version 1.0 release targeted for late 2026.