In October 2026, Tether secured support from 15 mining companies and manufacturers—including Bitmain, Bitdeer, Canaan, MicroBT, Foundry Digital, and F2Pool—for its open-source Mining Development Kit

Tokens pegged to stable value, usually the US dollar, spanning issuers and reserves, depegs, and adoption by banks and payment networks.

The industry that secures Bitcoin by expending energy, spanning public miners, hashrate economics, energy sourcing and the shift toward AI data-center workloads.