# Mining Pools

**Creating a Pool**

Any miner can create a mining pool, and deploy SOL in groups. The fee is taken from members' mining rewards.

**Pool Creator Earnings**

The pool creator earns 1% of all mining rewards from miners in their mining pool such as SOL and POT.

**Access control**

Mining pools can be Open (anyone can join immediately) or Closed (new members are pending until the leader approves them). Pending members cannot earn rewards until approved.

**Reward flow**

When a mining pool member wins a round, their POT rewards are processed through the mining pool:

* Pool fee = rewards × fee rate 1%
* Member pool = rewards − pool fee (split by contribution)


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