PearlHash crosses 1 EH/s — the first PEARL mining pool to hit exahash scale

As of May 2026, PearlHash has become the first PEARL mining pool in history to cross 1 exahash per second. Sitting at 1.45 EH/s, with 8,169 active miners, 77 blocks discovered in the last 24 hours, a freshly-cut 3% pool fee — now the lowest on PEARL, over 1 million PRL mined and over 1 million PRL distributed in rewards, PearlHash isn't just the biggest PEARL pool — it's the first one to operate at hyperscaler-class mining density on a PoUW chain.

This is the story of how a single pool quietly crossed a threshold that most thought was a year away, what 1 EH/s actually means for a Proof-of-Useful-Work chain, why thousands of miners are pointing their rigs at PearlHash right now, and — if you've been on the fence about where to mine PEARL — exactly how to get on-chain in the next 10 minutes.

The headline number: 1.45 EH/s

An exahash per second is one quintillion hash operations per second — a one followed by 18 zeros. For context: Bitcoin's entire network operates at roughly 600+ exahash. A single PEARL pool crossing one exahash by itself is a milestone that puts PearlHash in the conversation of large-scale crypto infrastructure operators worldwide.

For PEARL specifically, this matters in three ways:

1. Network maturity signal. A chain whose largest pool can sustain exahash-scale hashrate is a chain that has crossed from "experimental" to "industrial." The hardware, electricity, and operator competence required to coordinate that hashrate doesn't appear by accident — it represents real, deployed capital.
2. Block discovery reliability. A pool at 1.45 EH/s finds blocks predictably. PearlHash currently produces a block roughly every ~19 minutes on average. For miners, predictable block discovery means smoother payouts, less variance, and faster time-to-first-reward.
3. Validation of PoUW economics. Operators don't deploy this much hardware unless the unit economics close. PearlHash crossing 1 EH/s is a market signal that mining PEARL at scale is profitable enough to attract serious capital.

And the milestone isn't slowing down. PearlHash's hashrate has trended upward consistently over the past several weeks. Visit the live /pools comparison to see exactly where it sits as you read this.

Over 1 million PRL mined. Over 1 million PRL paid out.

The two numbers that matter most to miners aren't hashrate or block count — they're "how much has the pool mined?" and "how much have they actually paid out?". PearlHash crossed both million-PRL marks before any other pool on the network:

• 1,000,000+ PRL mined. Total PEARL coins discovered through blocks found by PearlHash miners since the pool launched.
• 1,000,000+ PRL distributed. Actual rewards paid out to the pool's miners — not promises, not pending balances, real on-chain transfers to miner wallets.

That second number is the one to weigh. A pool can claim any hashrate it wants; what matters is whether the rewards leave the pool's wallet and land in yours. PearlHash crossing 1M PRL paid out is the strongest possible signal of operational consistency — payouts happen, on time, automatically, every epoch.

The May 2026 fee cut: 3% — now the lowest on PEARL

The other major news this month: PearlHash cut its pool fee to 3% — making it the cheapest fee of any active PEARL mining pool. For context, here is the public-pool fee landscape today:

• PearlHash — 3%
• MinePRL — 4.4%
• AlphaMine — 5%
• Akoya Pool — 5%

This is the unusual case in mining economics where the largest pool also has the lowest fee. Conventional crypto-mining wisdom says low-fee pools are the small, scrappy operators trying to win share, and big pools charge a premium for their reliability. PearlHash just collapsed that trade-off — you no longer have to choose between scale and fee economics on PEARL.

For an active miner, the effective earnings impact is straightforward:

Effective earn rate = (1 − fee%) × your share of pool blocks

Moving from a 10% fee to a 3% fee, with everything else equal, lifts your take-home by ~7.8% per block. Compound that across the 77 blocks PearlHash finds per day and you can see how quickly the difference accumulates for any miner running more than a single GPU.

What miners get when they point a rig at PearlHash

Six concrete things the pool delivers today, all independently verifiable:

1. Auto-payout every epoch

PearlHash pays miners automatically at the end of every epoch. No manual claims, no "wait until you hit the threshold next week," no dashboard buttons to press. The system distributes rewards on-chain on its own schedule. For a miner running an H100 in a cloud pod for an unpredictable number of hours, this matters enormously — you can stop the rig whenever and the rewards have already been (or are being) sent.

2. ~1 PRL minimum payout

The minimum payout threshold sits at approximately 1 PRL. For perspective: that's a few hours of mining on an H100 at current network difficulty. Even short-session miners testing a setup will see their first payout same-day. There is no longer a "you didn't mine long enough to get paid" scenario on PearlHash.

3. Anti-DDoS infrastructure

Pool downtime is one of the silent killers of mining ROI. Every minute a pool is unreachable is a minute your rig is burning electricity without earning shares. PearlHash runs on anti-DDoS-protected infrastructure, with stake-out connectivity designed to keep stratum endpoints reachable through congestion and adversarial traffic.

4. On-chain block verification

Every block PearlHash claims to find can be independently verified on the public chain — and that's exactly what the live /pools comparison page on this site does. You don't have to take any pool's word for its block count. The on-chain ledger is the source of truth, and PearlHash's claims line up with the chain.

5. Scale-driven reward smoothness

At 1.45 EH/s, PearlHash finds 77 blocks in 24 hours — meaning your share of the pool's daily reward is averaged over 77 separate block events. The variance for any individual miner is dramatically lower than on a smaller pool that might find only 6–8 blocks per day. For miners with one or two GPUs, this difference is the difference between "got paid for the day's work" and "didn't find a block this session, try again tomorrow."

6. 3% pool fee — the lowest on PEARL

As detailed above, the May 2026 fee cut puts PearlHash at 3% — beneath every other public PEARL pool. Combined with the per-epoch auto-payout and 1 PRL minimum, the take-home math for an active miner is now strictly better on PearlHash than on any smaller-share, higher-fee alternative.

Why miners are switching to PearlHash right now

The miner-count growth tells the story most clearly. PearlHash has added thousands of active miners over the past few weeks, climbing past 8,000 active workers. Looking at why each individual miner switched, five themes come up repeatedly:

1. "The math just got better." The May 2026 fee cut from 10% to 3% is the most-cited reason in the last two weeks. Take-home per block jumped ~7.8% with no change in setup.
2. "My payouts arrive." Auto-payout + 1 PRL minimum = real income to a real wallet within hours of starting.
3. "The pool is up." Uptime matters more than people give it credit for. PearlHash's anti-DDoS layer means rigs don't sit idle waiting for stratum to reconnect.
4. "I can see the blocks." The fact that the pool's block production is independently verifiable on-chain — and the count matches what PearlHash claims — builds trust quickly. There's no "but is the pool actually finding blocks?" question.
5. "Smooth payouts at any rig size." Whether you run one GPU or fifty, the 77-blocks-per-day cadence smooths your earnings curve. Big pools punish small miners less than conventional wisdom suggests, once block frequency is high enough.

Ready to switch? Visit pearlhash.xyz for the stratum address, worker setup instructions, and live dashboard.

How to start mining on PearlHash in 10 minutes

If you have a compatible GPU (NVIDIA H100 or H200 — see the PEARL GPU compatibility guide for the full list), here's the fastest path on-chain:

1. Get a PEARL wallet address. If you don't have one, follow the PEARL wallet setup guide first — takes ~5 minutes.
2. Visit pearlhash.xyz for the current stratum endpoint and worker configuration. The pool documents everything you need on one page.
3. Point your miner at the stratum URL with your wallet address as the username and any worker name you like. Most PEARL miners use the standard --pool and --wallet flags.
4. Watch the dashboard. Your worker should show as connected within seconds and accepting shares within minutes. First payout typically lands within a few hours.

No GPU? Rent one in the cloud

If you don't own an H100 or H200, the practical route is renting one in the cloud. We've benchmarked the major providers in our cloud GPU comparison; the most reliable on-demand option for PEARL miners today is RunPod — they have H100/H200 inventory across multiple regions, on-demand billing, and they're the platform most of the PEARL community runs through.

Create a RunPod account here — there's a signup credit that covers your initial test run on PEARL. Walk through the RunPod-to-PEARL step-by-step if you want the exact pod settings and install commands.

What 1 EH/s means for the PEARL ecosystem

Step back from the individual pool for a moment. PearlHash crossing 1 EH/s isn't just a milestone for one operator — it's a milestone for PEARL itself.

A Proof-of-Useful-Work chain only delivers its value proposition when the work is actually being done at scale. PoUW's promise is that crypto mining stops being wasted heat and becomes productive AI inference. That promise depends on real GPUs running real workloads at real volume. One pool deploying 1 exahash of PoUW-compatible compute means the underlying thesis is being demonstrated in production right now.

For PEARL holders, this is the strongest network-fundamentals signal of 2026. The chain isn't just secured — it's secured at scale by an operator that has had to solve real-world infrastructure problems (DDoS resilience, payout automation, miner UX) to get there. That's not the trajectory of a speculative chain. That's the trajectory of an emerging mining industry.

For miners, it means the pool you choose to join is no longer a small operator-by-luck — PearlHash has the operational scale to support the next phase of the network as PEARL's profile grows.

What's next for PearlHash

Based on the pool's growth trajectory and the broader PEARL network dynamics, three things are worth watching:

• Will hashrate keep growing? The current curve says yes. As more miners and capital flow into PEARL — accelerated by news like the Pearl × Together AI partnership — pool-level hashrate scales with the network. PearlHash is positioned to capture a meaningful share of new inbound hashrate.
• Will block share consolidate further? PearlHash currently finds the majority of PEARL blocks. Whether other pools can sustain meaningful share will depend on their own infrastructure investment.
• What new features arrive? Anti-DDoS, auto-payout, and 1 PRL minimum were major upgrades over the past few months. The pace of operational improvement suggests more is coming — pool stats APIs, more granular dashboards, possibly direct fiat / stablecoin payout rails.

The bottom line

PearlHash is, by every quantifiable measure on the PEARL chain in May 2026, the largest and most active mining pool — first to cross the exahash threshold, and with the lowest pool fee of any public PEARL pool:

• 1.45 EH/s hashrate — first pool on PEARL to cross 1 exahash
• 8,169+ active miners
• 77 blocks discovered in 24 hours
• 3% pool fee — the lowest on PEARL (cut from 10% in May 2026)
• 1,000,000+ PRL mined
• 1,000,000+ PRL distributed to miners
• Auto-payout every epoch · ~1 PRL minimum · anti-DDoS

If you've been mining elsewhere and your payouts are slow, your pool is unreliable, or your block discovery cadence is choppy, this is the moment to switch.

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FAQ

Is PearlHash really the first PEARL pool to cross 1 EH/s?

Yes. As of May 2026, no other PEARL mining pool has reached the 1 exahash per second threshold. Live hashrate for every public pool is displayed on the /pools comparison page — confirm any claim independently before deciding.

How much has PearlHash actually paid out?

Over 1,000,000 PRL distributed to miners on-chain — a verifiable on-chain figure. Auto-payout runs every epoch, with a minimum threshold of approximately 1 PRL.

What GPU do I need to mine PEARL on PearlHash?

NVIDIA H100 or H200 with sm90 compute capability. See the full hardware breakdown in the best GPU for PEARL mining guide. If you don't own one, renting on RunPod is the fastest practical path.

How long until my first payout on PearlHash?

Auto-payout runs at the end of every epoch. For most active miners, the first reward arrives within hours — sometimes the same hour you start, depending on rig size and the epoch boundary.

What's the catch with PearlHash?

Honestly — as of May 2026, there isn't an obvious one. PearlHash is currently the largest pool by hashrate and the cheapest by fee (3%, the lowest on PEARL), with auto-payout, a 1 PRL minimum, anti-DDoS infrastructure, and on-chain-verifiable block production. The only meaningful concentration risk is at the network level — when one pool finds the majority of blocks, the broader chain's decentralization profile shifts. If that's a concern for you, mining on a smaller pool is a perfectly valid choice and you can compare all four side-by-side here: /pools.

Where can I follow PearlHash updates?

The pool publishes pool stats and operational updates on pearlhash.xyz. For independent live data and pool comparisons, refresh /pools — it polls every public pool API on a continuous cycle.