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Ch 5 · The Story Behind the Numbers
Chapter 5 · Behind the Numbers
The quarter, in Canaan's own words.
Eight threads — the doubled revenue, the energy bets, the West Texas deal, the Tether collaboration.
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✦ The bottom line
Canaan reports monthly mining updates and quarterly financials. Here's how management framed the recent stretch.
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Eight threads from the recent Canaan 6-K releases
1
Revenue nearly doubled in 2025.
FY2025 revenue of $530M (up 97% from $269M). Q4 alone hit $196M, up 121% YoY — driven by hardware sales as bitcoin price recovered.
2
Self-mining hashrate is growing fast.
Non-JV installed hashrate reached 10.97 EH/s in April 2026, up 34.6% YoY. JV adds 4.82 EH/s more.
3
Treasury hit record highs.
1,826 BTC and 3,952 ETH on the balance sheet in April 2026 — the company's largest crypto holdings ever.
4
Cipher Mining JV acquired for $39.75M stock.
On Feb 23, 2026, Canaan bought Cipher's 49% interest in the West Texas ABC Projects (Alborz, Bear, Chief Mountain) — adding 120 MW of power and ~4.4 EH/s of hashrate. Cipher became a significant Canaan shareholder.
5
Tether partnership extended.
Follow-on order from Tether for custom hash board modules (April 28, 2026) — first deployment to a Tether-affiliated mining facility in South America.
6
Fleet efficiency improved 14%.
Global fleet efficiency improved from 27.4 J/TH a year ago to 23.6 J/TH in April 2026 — direct margin tailwind.
7
Insiders bought at $0.51.
CEO Zhang and CFO Cheng acquired 1.46 million ADSs on the open market at an average of $0.51 each in March 2026.
8
Energy-integrated compute is the long-term thesis.
The Canada gas-to-compute project and West Texas demand-response capabilities are positioning Canaan as a vertically integrated energy/compute platform — not just a miner.
Source · 6-K / 20-F · Multiple recent 6-Ks and FY2025 20-F · FY2025 / Q1 2026 / monthly updates · Filed May 14, 2026
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