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Tether's MDK Gains Broad Industry Backing to Accelerate the Next Generation of Bitcoin ...
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Fusion42 · 25 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
Tether's Mining Development Kit (MDK), an open-source interoperability framework for Bitcoin mining infrastructure, has gained backing from 15 mining companies, ASIC manufacturers, and pools to enable AI-driven automation and unified management across different mining hardware and platforms.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Crypto & Web3 and AI Infrastructure, and 2 sources have reported it.
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You must build integrations with Tether's MDK now to control your mining systems via a standard interface. Without this, automating and scaling your mining operation with AI agents will become far harder.
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2 sources · 24 Oct 2026
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