what's Foundry?
Foundry is a digital asset infrastructure company that provides services to institutional participants in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, with a primary focus on Bitcoin mining. It operates the Foundry USA Pool, one of the largest mining pools by hashrate, enabling miners to contribute computing power to secure the Bitcoin network and earn rewards proportionally. Foundry also offers additional tools like the FoundryX marketplace for mining hardware, Foundry Academy for education, and logistics support to streamline operations for miners. The company emphasizes transparency, compliance, and efficiency, including SOC compliance, KYC, and AML screening to attract enterprise clients. As part of Digital Currency Group, Foundry supports the decentralization of blockchain networks by facilitating access to capital and resources for miners, particularly in North America, while promoting sustainable practices such as non-fossil fuel energy sources.
Foundry functionality delivered for Aptos platform.
Hardhat and Foundry functionality has been delivered for Aptos platform.
Controls 30% of Bitcoin's total hash power through its mining pool operations.
Experienced a hashrate drop of approximately 60% since January 23, 2026 due to US winter storm "Fernan", with hashrate declining from approximately 495 EH/s to 198 EH/s (23% of global pool hashrate).
Featured in a scheduled discussion on MCGlive and assetdash at 12:00 on January 13, 2026.
Foundry fuzzer now parses code to extract values that reveal edge cases in addition to its coverage-guided fuzzing features.
Foundry and AntPool conducted two stale block races in the last 16 hours to test a new blockchain feature.
Foundry Services mines 3T DMT-NAT tokens (~1.72 BTC value) through TAP's miner-redirect system.
@0xrusowsky, previously from r55, joins as full-time team member to advance development.
Token experiences 24.89% price surge, reaching $852.22K market cap while gaining tracking in ICM ecosystem.
New partnership with SYLIX launches first anime NFT collection on megaeth_labs, featuring 999 supply free mint on Ethereum.
No token will ever be issued. Current scam alert: Fake tokens being created ahead of launch.
Major development frameworks now support encrypted private keys, resolving a critical security vulnerability.