Who finds Pearl's blocks? One week read from the chain
We matched 3,621 Pearl blocks to the pools that found them. Kryptex found half of them, PearlHash a fifth, and 7% came from solo miners and unknown pools.
Every Pearl block pays its reward to the address of whoever found it. PearlStation reads that address for every block and matches it to the block lists the pools publish themselves. This is the first report from that data: 3,621 blocks, from 14 to 21 October 2026.
Blocks per pool
| Finder | Blocks | Share of blocks | Share of hashrate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kryptex | 1,837 | 50.7% | 43.8% |
| PearlHash | 768 | 21.2% | 18.0% |
| Pearl Fortune | 241 | 6.7% | 6.6% |
| Lucky Pool | 208 | 5.7% | 6.9% |
| HeroMiners | 192 | 5.3% | 4.8% |
| Jetski | 111 | 3.1% | 1.1% |
| 52 other finders | 264 | 7.2% |
Hashrate share is what each pool reported on 21 October, divided by the network hashrate of about 80 EH/s. It is a snapshot, not a weekly average.
A block was found every 167 seconds on average, about 517 blocks a day.
Kryptex finds half of all blocks
Kryptex, the largest Pearl pool, found 50.7% of the week's blocks. Its reported hashrate was lower, at about 44% of the network. Pool hashrate figures and the network estimate are measured in different ways, so the exact gap matters less than the ranking. The ranking is clear: one pool finds every second Pearl block.
That matters to miners. Spreading hashrate over several pools keeps a network healthy, and a smaller pool with the same fee and payout scheme pays about the same over the long run. Its payouts are just less smooth from day to day.
PearlHash is a strong second
PearlHash found more than a fifth of all blocks, more than the next four pools together. Pearl Fortune, Lucky Pool and HeroMiners each found between 5% and 7%, close to their share of hashrate.
7% came from solo miners and small pools
264 blocks went to 52 addresses that no pool claims in its block list. Most found only one or two blocks, which looks like solo miners. The largest one found 72 blocks (2% of the week), which is more likely a pool that does not publish its blocks. Pools such as F2Pool and BaikalMine do not publish block lists that we can match yet.
What "luck" means
A pool with 10% of the hashrate should find about 10% of the blocks. Over a day it can be far more or far less, because finding a block is random. Over a week the numbers settle, as they did here for Pearl Fortune and HeroMiners. If a pool stays well under its share for weeks, that is worth asking about.
See it live
The Blocks page in PearlStation shows the same numbers live, for the last 24 hours and 7 days, with the latest blocks and who found them. We will publish this report regularly so you can see how the network changes.
Method: blocks read from the official Pearl explorer, blockbook.pearlresearch.ai. Each block's reward address is matched to the pool that lists the block as its own. Snapshot taken 21 October 2026 at 23:50 UTC.
