We're continuing to work on the mining pool API specification, plan is to release an early version by next Monday.
Thank you for all the interest in starting mining pools. More details to follow (and we will respond to individual emails) but the basic requirements to receive the reward will be
We'll follow up by email to everyone who indicated interest with more information on each of those requirements
No final decision has been made yet, but there will likely be a HARD FORK of testnet2 where we'll introduce some changes to the difficulty adjustment algorithm. We have not set a date yet but be aware that ALL nodes on the network must switch to the latest version of snarkOS at the time of the fork if they want to participate in the rewards program.