Pearl Mining Roundup — Week of August 3, 2026
Network hashrate 34.36 EH/s (▼ 17.9% WoW), PRL at $0.3000 (▲ 30.4%), 5,962,897 PRL mined this week. Your weekly Pearl network metrics, measured from our own node.
PRL trades against USDC on pearl-trade.com. I walked through the whole thing (deposit, order, withdrawal, the wPRL bridge) and wrote down what I'd tell a friend before their first trade.
A wallet, a GPU, the miner, and a pool. That's the whole setup. Here's how I'd do it from scratch, including the parts the official docs gloss over.
New to Pearl? This is the five-minute version: what proof of work means here, why blocks come every three minutes, and how difficulty and hashrate fit together.