DMND.

DMND, also called Demand Pool, is the trading name of Guru Protocol Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales in October 2023. Its directors are its co-founder and chief executive, Alejandro De La Torre, and its chief technology officer, Filippo Merli. DMND says its team’s roots are in SRI, the open-source reference software for StratumStratumThe protocol most mining pools use to hand out work to miners’ machines and collect the results. Marek Palatinus introduced it in 2012. V2. After a test version in 2024, it invited miners to its launch in March 2025 and announced funding led by Trammell Venture Partners, an investment firm in Austin, Texas.

Stratum is how a pool sends its miners their work, and in most pools the pool chooses which transactions go into each block. Stratum V2’s Job Declaration lets a miner build its own block instead, with the pool checking it. DMND found its first block, 955,318, on 25 June 2026. GoMining, a mining company, built that block itself, including transactions from GoBTC Pay, its own payments system, and DMND says it was the first known block made this way. DMND says it never changes what a miner puts in a block it built, including its signals for or against proposed changes to Bitcoin’s rules.

DMND pays its miners by a scheme it calls SLICE, its version of PPLNS (pay per last N shares). When the pool finds a block, it shares out the new bitcoin by how much work each miner did recently, and the fees by that work and by the fees in the blocks each miner was building. So a DMND block’s first transaction pays the whole reward to the pool, which then shares it among its miners. These are payments to the pool’s miners, separate from the transactions confirmed inside the block. Since May 2026 miners who build their own blocks can also earn rBTC, the coin of Rootstock, a network secured by the same mining work, paid straight to their own address.