Pool Service Agreement
The SOQUPOOL merge-mining pool (the "Pool") is owned and operated by Soqucoin Labs Inc. This Pool Service Agreement (the "Terms"), together with our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Service Agreement"), sets out the rights and obligations of anyone who accesses or uses the Pool (a "User").
By accessing and using the Pool, User accepts the Service Agreement. SOQUPOOL may modify the Service Agreement at any time; User is responsible for reviewing it and any changes. If User does not agree, User must stop using and will not be permitted further access to the Pool.
1. Accounts and access
Since 15 October 2026 the Pool is open to any miner. No identity verification, tier, hashrate cap, or operator approval is required to mine. What remains is a sanctions attestation at sign-up, the screening of payout addresses against sanctions lists, and the refusal of sign-ups and rigs from embargoed jurisdictions (see section 6).
- Accounts. User registers with a username, an email address (which must be verified), a password, and a miner name, and adds one payout address per chain. User must be at least eighteen (18) years old, and must not be a person, or act for a person, who is subject to sanctions or located in an embargoed jurisdiction.
- Information. User agrees to provide true, accurate, and complete information and to keep it current. SOQUPOOL may require identity or other information or documentation at any time where law, regulation, sanctions compliance, or a lawful request requires it, and may decline, suspend, or revoke access accordingly.
- Accounts that completed identity verification before 15 October 2026, when verification was a condition of mining on most tiers, did so through an independent verification processor. The verification results retained for those accounts are described in the Privacy Policy. Nothing further is required of those Users, or of any account opened before that date without verification.
2. Services
- SOQUPOOL provides a Scrypt merge-mining pool and related services (the "Service"), through which one stream of work is submitted against Litecoin (primary) and the merged chains Dogecoin and Soqucoin. The Service does not include wallet or custodial services. User controls its own payout addresses.
- User is responsible for providing and bearing the costs of its own mining equipment and connectivity.
- User authorizes SOQUPOOL to compute and distribute mining rewards under the payout terms in section 4.
- SOQUPOOL may modify or interrupt the Service for maintenance, upgrades, or operational reasons, and will use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize disruption.
3. User obligations and security
- User will comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, and will not use the Service for any unlawful purpose or from any prohibited or sanctioned location.
- User authenticates each rig with its miner name and, where User has set one, a per-account stratum secret, and is responsible for safeguarding its login and stratum credentials. A rig that connects without an account, by supplying a payout address per chain in its login, is a User and accepts the Service Agreement by connecting.
- A payout address is subject to a 48-hour hold after it is added or set as the payout address, for security and compliance review. Balances accrue during the hold and pay on the first eligible cycle after it.
- User acknowledges it uses the Pool and Service at its own risk.
- User will not scrape, data-mine, or use automated means to extract data from the Service beyond its own account data through provided interfaces.
4. Payouts and fees
- Compensation structure. Block rewards are paid by the network to addresses owned and controlled by SOQUPOOL, and all mined coins are the property of SOQUPOOL until paid out. A User's account balance is accrued, unpaid compensation for services rendered (hashrate contributed), not a deposit, stored value, or a custodied asset, and SOQUPOOL does not hold funds on behalf of Users. Payouts are automatic and mandatory once a balance reaches the applicable threshold; the Service offers no facility to park balances, no transfers between Users, no payments to third parties framed as balance transfers, and no exchange or conversion features. A User may raise its payout threshold above the chain minimum within a bounded range (on the order of thirty (30) days of that User's accrual), and never in a way that suspends the automatic payout schedule. Release schedules on Soqucoin credited under the launch protections described below are release terms imposed by SOQUPOOL on its own property prior to payout, consistent with this structure.
- Model. Rewards are distributed on a Pay-Per-Last-N-Shares (PPLNS) basis, in cycles at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 UTC. Litecoin and Dogecoin settle natively; Soqucoin payouts are signed with a post-quantum signature scheme (ML-DSA-44). Minimum payouts: 0.01 LTC, 10 DOGE, 100,000 SOQ.
- First payout. No waiting period applies to a new account's first payout: balances pay on the first eligible cycle once they reach the minimums above, subject only to the 48-hour hold on a newly added payout address (section 3). Accounts admitted to the Genesis tier before 15 October 2026 remain subject to a fourteen (14) day period from account creation before their first payout. SOQUPOOL may reintroduce a waiting period for new accounts, with notice, where its risk controls require it.
- Fee. The pool fee is 1.69% of rewards on all three chains. Accounts registered before the Soqucoin mainnet launch (13 October 2026, 15:00 UTC) pay 1.50% for the life of the account. There are no other fee tiers and no reward multiplier.
- Launch protections (ended 15 October 2026). From the Soqucoin mainnet launch until 15 October 2026, SOQUPOOL applied a per-account emission cap and a linear release schedule to Soqucoin rewards above a daily threshold, to protect the network during its launch. Those controls ended on 15 October 2026, and no cap or release schedule applies to rewards credited after that date. Soqucoin credited under a release schedule before that date continues to release on its original schedule (thirty (30) days for standard accounts; for Genesis accounts, a ninety (90) day delay followed by release over one hundred eighty (180) days), is not reduced, and pays on the regular cycles as it releases. SOQUPOOL may reintroduce protections of this kind, with notice, if the security of the Soqucoin network requires it.
- Groups. User may organize its workers into reporting groups within one account. Groups are for reporting only and carry no separate fee, payout, or other terms.
- Balances on discontinuation. If User's access or rights are discontinued, User is solely responsible for settling the remaining balances in its account; SOQUPOOL will use commercially reasonable efforts to assist. For the avoidance of doubt, SOQUPOOL shall not be responsible or liable to User for any balances remaining in User's account three (3) months after User's access has been discontinued, regardless of whether the balances were left intentionally.
5. Confidentiality
User will not disclose SOQUPOOL Confidential Information, which includes non-public information about the Pool, Service, software, and documentation that is marked confidential or that would reasonably cause competitive harm if disclosed. Confidential Information excludes information that is public, lawfully obtained from a third party without restriction, or independently developed. User's authorized representatives with a need to know may receive it under equivalent confidentiality obligations.
6. Term, termination, and enforcement
- The Service Agreement remains in effect until access is terminated by either party. User may terminate at any time after settling pending transactions.
- Suspension and termination. SOQUPOOL may, at its sole discretion, limit, suspend, or terminate User's access to the Pool and Service if User: becomes subject to bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings; liquidates, dissolves, terminates, or suspends its business; breaches the Service Agreement; fails sanctions screening or a lawful request for information under section 1; or performs any act or omission that materially impacts its ability to adhere to the Service Agreement. SOQUPOOL may further suspend or cancel access, without prior notice, where it suspects the account or the Service is being used in an unauthorized, fraudulent, or unlawful manner. SOQUPOOL will not be liable to User or any third party for any such limitation, suspension, or termination.
- Inactive accounts. An account that has never connected mining equipment and holds no payout address and no balance may be closed after a period of inactivity. Where the account's email address has been verified, SOQUPOOL will first send two notices to it, the last at least seven (7) days before closure. Signing in before the closure date keeps the account open. On closure, the account's username and miner name become available for a new registration, which User may make at any time.
- Prohibited conduct constituting breach includes, without limitation: submitting shares from stolen, unauthorized, or botnet-controlled hashpower; block-withholding or other pool-gaming attacks; credential sharing or circumvention of per-account controls; interference with the Service or other Users; and any unlawful use.
- Sanctions. If SOQUPOOL learns, or has reasonable cause to suspect, that User is subject to sanctions under any applicable sanctions program (including OFAC programs), that is a gross breach of the Service Agreement, and SOQUPOOL may immediately suspend the account for an indefinite term and freeze associated payouts as required by law.
- Review. A suspended User may request review by contacting SOQUPOOL. Review may include an identity and compliance check, and it is at SOQUPOOL's sole discretion whether the evidence provided is sufficient to lift the suspension. SOQUPOOL will notify User of the outcome. If a suspension arising from sanctions or suspected unlawful conduct is not resolved by sufficient evidence within one (1) year, SOQUPOOL may terminate the account and shall no longer be obligated to pay remuneration attributable to it, whether or not rewards were already confirmed or displayed in the account, except where payout is required by law.
- Cooperation. SOQUPOOL may report and disclose relevant account information to regulators and law enforcement as described in the Privacy Policy, and preserves records of enforcement actions and their reasons.
- Soqucoin still releasing under a launch-period schedule continues to release on schedule where practicable, subject to compliance holds.
7. Force majeure
SOQUPOOL is not liable for non-performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including war, terrorism, sabotage, fire, acts of God, strikes, riots, quarantine, epidemics or pandemics, natural disasters, network or power failures, and regulatory or governmental action. During such an event SOQUPOOL may suspend or terminate the Service.
8. Disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", "WHERE IS", AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SOQUPOOL AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY, INCLUDING LOSS ARISING FROM SERVICE FAILURE OR INTERRUPTION, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, THEFT, OPERATOR ERROR, OR FORCE MAJEURE. SOQUPOOL DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED, OR SECURE ACCESS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SOQUPOOL'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE AGREEMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED THE POOL FEES EARNED BY SOQUPOOL DIRECTLY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE HASHPOWER PROVIDED BY USER IN THE SIX (6) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
9. Indemnity
User agrees to indemnify and hold SOQUPOOL harmless from claims, losses, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising from User's use of the Service or breach of the Service Agreement, subject to applicable law.
10. Governing law and dispute resolution
The Service Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be finally resolved by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator in Sheridan, Wyoming, in English, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.