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MolonLabeVC 1 week ago
Today is your lucky day... come claim your TNA OS of choice 100% discount code from the Discord Hashparty event room image
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MolonLabeVC 1 week ago
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MolonLabeVC 3 weeks ago
image Canaan Avalon Nano3S -A3197S ASIC Reverse Engineering Report The first public reverse-engineering of Canaan's A3197S Bitcoin mining ASIC Date: June 5, 2026 Conducted by: Nikos ASIC: Canaan A3197S (Avalon-Nano class) — 10 SHA-256 engines per chip Host platform: Canaan Avalon Nano 3s (12× A3197S, Kendryte K230D dual-core RISC-V) Stock Firmware: Avalon Nano 3s release 2025061101 (June 2025) Test Firmware: TNA-OS (custom mining stack built on the cracked protocol) Board Revision: MM-NANO3S-V0.2 Executive Summary To the author's knowledge, this is the first time anyone has publicly reverse-engineered Canaan's A3197S Bitcoin mining ASIC — the chip at the heart of the Avalon Nano 3s and related Avalon-Nano-class hardware. The A3197S is closed silicon. Its host-to-chip mining protocol is undocumented; the second RISC-V core that drives it ships encrypted on flash; and there is no published information describing how the chip is brought up, configured, fed work, or how it reports results. Every existing deployment of this ASIC runs the vendor's closed stack and nothing else. This study cracked that wall: the complete A3197S serial mining protocol was recovered — chain enumeration, per-chip configuration and calibration, the high-speed bus bring-up, work dispatch, version-rolling (AsicBoost) setup, and the nonce-report format the chip returns. With the protocol understood, a branch of firmware (TNA-OS) was written to drive the chips directly, independently of any vendor software. FULL REPORT AVAILABLE HERE : If you found this report useful and would like to support continued research, development, please consider supporting: Every sat helps
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MolonLabeVC 3 weeks ago
BTC Tech Nerd Army First-ever crack of the Canaan A3197S ASIC TNA-OS now supports Canaan Nano3s --Adjustable frequency & core voltage, per-chip PLL --Stratum V1 and V2 — full SV2 with Noise encryption, not just legacy V1 --Up to 8 pools with multipool + automatic failover --PSU bypass / direct USB-PD control --Live PSU telemetry: voltage, current, watts, PD-contract status, fault detection --Live web dashboard with an interactive hashboard schematic — every chip's health, hashrate, temp, and chip-ID at a glance --REST API + CGMiner-compatible API + SSH Miner is live on pool- Link below