Share this article

Bitcoin Miner Mawson Signs Second Hosting Deal in a Week

The new deal will bring the company’s total hosting co-location power capacity to 114MW, up from just 2MW at the end of 2021.

Updated May 11, 2023, 5:57 p.m. Published Mar 4, 2022, 4:54 p.m.
Bitcoin mining (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)
Bitcoin mining (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)

Australian bitcoin miner Mawson Infrastructure Group (MIGI) has signed a 12 megawatt (MW) hosting co-location deal with Foundry Digital, just days after signing a 100 MW deal with Celsius Mining. (Foundry Digital is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, the parent company of CoinDesk.)

  • The deal will bring the miner’s hosting co-location business to a total of 114 MW, rising 5,600% from 2 MW at Dec. 31, 2021, according to a statement released on Friday.
  • On Tuesday, Mawson signed its largest co-location customer for 100 MW with Celsius Mining.
  • “Our hosting business is expanding rapidly and total contracts signed to date makes us one of the largest Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining ASIC hosting companies,” said James Manning, CEO and founder of Mawson, in the statement.
  • Mawson expects the first mining hardware under the new agreement to be deployed by the end of the first quarter.
  • Shares of Mawson fell 5.8% on Friday, in line with most of its crypto mining peers, after bitcoin pulled back about 4% to $40,770 over the last 24 hours..

More For You

Protocol Research: GoPlus Security

GP Basic Image

What to know:

  • As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
  • GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
  • Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.

More For You

Prediction Markets Are Coming to Phantom's 20M User Via Kalshi

Kalshi will have a prediction contract weighed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Phantom users will be able to chat and trade Kalshi's prediction markets with any Solana-based tokens, CEO said.

What to know:

  • Crypto wallet Phantom is embedding Kalshi to offer prediction markets to its 20 million users.
  • Users can trade on real-world outcomes using any Solana-based tokens directly without leaving the wallet.
  • The integration of prediction markets is part of a trend among crypto wallets to expand their features and services, such as MetaMask's partnership with Polymarket.