Actors

Stacks Miners

Miners whose BTC bids fund the PoX-5 reward waterfall.

Stacks miners are the source of the BTC reward pool. They spend BTC to compete for STX block rewards and transaction fees, and those BTC bids fund the waterfall distribution across paired BTC participants, the reserve fund, and STX-only stakers.

Whitelisted Pool Operators

Operators that manage community-tranche sBTC pool participation.

Stacks Signers

Consensus validators associated with locked STX.