Canaan Secures Follow-On Purchase Order From Hive Blockchain for 6,500 Bitcoin Mining Machines

– Hive Blockchain has bought 10,400 models of Canaan’s Avalon Miners over two earlier orders –

BEIJING, Oct. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) (“Canaan” or the “Firm”), a number one high-performance computing options supplier, immediately introduced that it has secured a follow-on buy order from HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd. (TSX.V: HIVE; NASDAQ: HIVE) (“HIVE”), for six,500 models of its next-generation Avalon Bitcoin mining machines.

This new order by HIVE follows the 2 current purchases of 4,000 models and 6,400 models of Canaan’s Avalon Miners in August 2021 and January 2021, respectively.

Mr. Nangeng Zhang, Chairman and Chief Government Officer of Canaan, commented, “The extra buy order from HIVE additional strengthens our working relationship. The consecutive offers are usually not solely a testomony to the standard and efficiency of our mining machines, but in addition show our efficient shopper relationship-building efforts. We are going to proceed to place ourselves as an essential companion for HIVE as they speed up their enterprise development. With our next-generation Avalon Miners in addition to our high quality on-site and off-site assist, we’re assured to realize better success with our purchasers within the crypto-mining area.”

Frank Holmes, Government Chairman of HIVE, commented, “We’re happy to be constructing on our strategic alliances with Canaan, a number one ASIC producer, to realize our objectives and drive worth for our shareholders, whereas executing on a transaction that will increase our money circulation and inexperienced mining capability. HIVE at the moment has roughly 1.2 Exahash per second (EH/s) of Bitcoin mining capability, and with this new buy, HIVE’s Bitcoin ASIC pipeline can be at 2 EH/s by December 2021, and three EH/s by March 2022.”

About Canaan Inc.

Established in 2013, Canaan (NASDAQ: CAN), is a know-how firm specializing in ASIC high-performance computing chip design, chip analysis and growth, computing gear manufacturing and software program providers. The Firm’s imaginative and prescient is “tremendous computing is what we do, social enrichment is why we do it.” Canaan has a wealthy expertise in chip design and streamlined manufacturing within the ASIC area. In 2013, it launched and mass produced its first ASIC Bitcoin mining machine. In 2018, Canaan launched the world’s first 7nm ASIC chip, offering vitality environment friendly computing gear to the cryptocurrency mining trade. In the identical 12 months, Canaan launched the world’s first RISC-V structure business edge AI chip, additional harnessing the potential of ASIC know-how within the area of high-performance computing and synthetic intelligence.

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