Resources

External links a miner or curious observer actually needs. Curated, opinionated, dated. Every entry says why it's here and when we last checked it.

Last reviewed: 2026-08-25. Report broken or moved links to [email protected].

Chain data

• explorer.alpha.ecash.ninja — canonical live block explorer for the alphanet. Search by height, hash, address, or txid. This is the explorer our /blocks page links out to per row.
• esplora.alpha.ecash.ninja — Blockstream-style Esplora HTTP API on the alphanet. Useful for building dashboards; the same UI as mempool.space, just running against ECX data.
• alpha.ecash.ninja/info — network hub: DNS seed, snapshot URL, P2P port, current fork parameters. First thing to check if you're spinning up your own node.
• data.drivechain.dev/alphanet/utxo-963648.dat — assumeUTXO snapshot at the Alpha activation block (963,648, ~9.5 GB). Fastest way to bring up a new node; verify the SHA against the network hub above before trusting.

Wallets

• BitWindow — desktop wallet from LayerTwoLabs. Doubles as an activation client for phase-transition ceremonies. First-party software — verify the signature against the project's key before running.
• ecash-com/ecash-wallet-mobile — Android wallet, v0.2.2 build 11 as of 2026-08-24. Source-available; build it yourself or install the signed APK from the releases page.
• Electrum against Esplora. Standard Electrum can be pointed at ssl://explorer.alpha.ecash.ninja:50002 for ECX. This is the setup most miners we know use for cold-storage-adjacent operations — it separates the wallet you sign with from the node the project ships.

Node and pool software

• ecash-com/bitcoin — L1 node source. Fork of Bitcoin Core v31.1. Branch alphanet is what we run in production. GHCR image: ghcr.io/ecash-com/bitcoin:alphanet.
• ecash-com/bip300301_enforcer — the BIP-300/301 wrapper around bitcoind. Required for any pool that issues templates on the drivechain-active chain (bitcoind alone refuses getblocktemplate post-activation).
• Con Kolivas's CKpool — the upstream solo/pool stratum server. Our small patches (configurable donation address, drivechain GBT compatibility) will be published as a public branch before Full Release.
• releases.drivechain.info — prebuilt binaries of the ECX-adjacent projects. Self-verify SHA-256 sums; the site is not TLS-pinned to a project-owned key.

Specs and docs

• ecash.com — project landing page. Overview-level; the technical detail lives in the fast-facts repo below.
• ecash-com/fast-facts — canonical spec for fork parameters, activation heights, replay protection rules, and BIP-300/301 semantics. Lags the LayerTwoLabs Telegram announcements by hours to days; when the two disagree, Telegram is usually correct and fast-facts is being updated.
• drivechain.info/dev.txt — dev-facing fast-reference. Older than fast-facts but more compact.
• drivechain.info — high-level Drivechain overview. Read alongside the BIP-300/301 texts, not instead of them.
• github.com/LayerTwo-Labs — sidechain implementations (Thunder, BitNames, BitAssets, Truthcoin, ZSide, Photon, CoinShift) plus SimplePool. Useful for understanding what an ECX L2 build looks like end-to-end.

Community

• t.me/DcInsiders — the LayerTwoLabs-flavoured Telegram. Highest-signal channel for operational news — activation delays, snapshot re-publishes, image bumps land here first.
• t.me/eCashHangout — the official community channel. Broader audience, more general questions.
• reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining — not ECX-specific, but the subreddit where the SHA-256d mining community discusses fork pools when they pop up.

Exchanges

No spot ECX pair is confirmed as of 2026-08-25. Alpha and Beta coins are labelled practice money by LayerTwoLabs and are unlikely to be tradeable; Full Release listings are not yet announced. We will populate this section as exchanges publish trading pairs — miners can then decide for themselves whether to trust any given venue with ECX.

If you see an unattributed "ECX/USDT" pair before Full Release, it is almost certainly not this chain. There is at least one other project also using the ECX ticker.

What we don't link

• Other mining pools. Operator preference: this page is for tools you need to use our pool and understand the network. Comparison-shopping stratum endpoints is not what a resources page is for. If you want a backup pool for miner failover, search — the other ECX pools are not hard to find.
• Promotional material. No press releases, no launch threads, no boosters. See /about for the parts of the project we're actively sceptical of.
• Random forum threads. If a resource matters, it should have a stable URL and a maintainer. Bitcointalk posts and Twitter threads decay too fast to link authoritatively.