Custom Miner Management Solution For A Cryptocurrency Startup

The Customer is a cryptocurrency startup that provides a web-based platform for miners. The platform enables users to deploy and manage their mining equipment (primarily GPU-based), reduce operational costs, and maximize returns through real-time insights, infrastructure configuration tools, rental options, and native mining pool coordination.

• Dynamic infrastructure layout editor for mining facilities
• Support for both owned and rented mining hardware
• Mining pool creation and management for shared hashing efficiency
• Real-time telemetry and historical analytics per device
• Built-in command dispatch and operational automation
• Notification system for temperature, load, and power thresholds
• Flexible hardware configuration editor for individual or pooled miners

The Customer needed a platform that would allow miners to manage their mining operations easily. They wanted a web platform that would help miners to deploy their equipment, design infrastructure layout including racks, power distribution units, networking, and miner positioning. Users should be able to apply predefined or custom configurations (e.g., power limits, temperature thresholds) and control hardware in real-time.

To enable broader participation, the Customer also wanted to offer hardware rentals, so that miners without physical equipment could lease available units. Additionally, they required a mechanism to create or join mining pools, enabling users to combine computational power and share rewards based on contributed hashrate.

The challenge was to build a visually intuitive yet technically advanced solution that balanced infrastructure planning, real-time control, performance monitoring, and financial coordination in a single unified platform.

• 1 Senior .NET Backend Developer (infrastructure logic, device control, mining pool engine)
• 1 Senior React Frontend Developer (UI/UX, virtual rendering, config editor)
• 1 DevOps Engineer (Docker, PostgreSQL, CI/CD pipelines)
• 1 QA Automation Engineer (React Testing Library, end-to-end scenarios)

Softellar’s team developed a full-featured miner management platform using .NET, React, PostgreSQL, and Docker. The solution included infrastructure layout design, real-time monitoring, miner control, rental management, and native mining pool functionality.

Users could design where to place mining units, assign power and networking resources, and configure equipment either from their own inventory or by renting it through the platform. All miners - owned or leased - could be assigned to mining pools to share processing power and optimize reward frequency.

The platform offered a flexible hardware configuration editor, support for predefined templates, and real-time command execution for tasks like restarting a miner, changing load thresholds, or shifting pool assignments.

Users also had access to dashboards displaying live operational metrics (power consumption, heating level, GPU load) and historical utilization data. Threshold-based alerts allowed for early detection of potential hardware failures or inefficiencies.

Infrastructure Designer

React-based visual editor using Virtual Lists and Suspense to build scalable infrastructure maps. Users could define layout by placing racks, PDUs, miners, and network nodes within containerized environments.

Custom & Predefined Hardware Configuration

Miners could use predefined settings or configure custom thresholds for temperature, power, scheduling, and more. Templates were reusable and applied to individuals or groups.

Mining Pool Engine

A key feature allowing users to create or join mining pools through the platform. The backend tracks contributed hashrate, manages share validation, and calculates proportional earnings. Pools support both rented and owned devices, enabling flexible collaboration across users.

Equipment Rental Management

Users can browse and rent mining units directly from the platform. Once assigned, rented hardware behaves like owned equipment - fully manageable, monitorable, and pool-ready.

Telemetry Dashboard

Live telemetry visualized per device and pool: GPU load %, power draw, ambient temperature, uptime. Data fed via secure polling into PostgreSQL and surfaced through performant React dashboards.

Historical Analytics & Alerts

Performance trends stored long-term to help with optimization decisions. Alerting system detects abnormal behavior (e.g., temperature spike) and notifies users with recommended action.

Command Execution Layer

Frontend UI sends secure commands via .NET APIs to control miners remotely (restart, reassign, reconfigure). This enables lightweight orchestration without leaving the browser.

Scalable, Tested Architecture

The platform runs in Dockerized services, tested through CI with React Testing Library and Storybook. Backend modules were covered by integration tests and supported isolated scaling.

To deliver a robust solution under a tight timeline, Softellar worked in agile sprints with continuous delivery checkpoints:

1. Discovery & Planning
   Analyzed pooling models, financial logic, and rental workflows
   Scoped platform into MVP + post-launch phases
   Designed multi-tenant architecture and ownership model
2. Core Platform Development
   Delivered miner layout UI and real-time dashboards
   Implemented hardware registration and pooling logic
   Connected backend APIs with command handlers and telemetry feeds
3. Mining Pools & Rental Integration
   Built mining pool creation, hashrate tracking, and reward sharing logic
   Developed rental workflows (booking, activation, expiration)
4. UX & Automation Layer
   Added configuration templates, health alerts, and bulk action tools
   Optimized rendering and implemented component-level testing
5. Launch & Handoff
   Final QA and deployment
   Provided admin toolkit, documentation, and onboarding support

The platform helped the Customer’s clients to deploy their equipment easily and combine them into pools, which allowed more efficient mining. The platform provided both real-time and historical data of mining activities, which helped miners to make informed decisions about their operations. That allowed to reduce mining operations’ costs significantly and the Customer gained a competitive advantage on the market.

Business Outcomes

• Enabled even small-scale miners to join mining pools and earn more consistently
• Improved asset utilization via rental model and hybrid pool participation
• Reduced setup time for new customers by >40% through layout automation
• Positioned the Customer as a high-tech platform provider in the competitive mining space

Technical Outcomes

• Supported thousands of live telemetry streams with minimal latency
• Enabled real-time control over both physical and rented assets
• Achieved 80%+ test coverage and stable CI/CD pipelines
• Delivered flexible pool coordination with accurate reward tracking

.NET, C#, Docker, PostgreSQL, React, Redux Toolkit, ESLint, Prettier, React Testing Library, TypeScript, SASS/SCSS, React Suspense, Virtual Lists, Storybook