Oman became the first Gulf state to mandate a single national Bitcoin mining pool, requiring all licensed miners to route hashrate through the government-backed Omanhash.om platform.
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Oman mandates national Bitcoin mining pool with 10 EH/s hashrate
Oman became the first Gulf state to mandate a single national Bitcoin mining pool, requiring all licensed miners to route hashrate through the government-backed Omanhash.om platform.
Oman launched Omanhash.om on June 17, a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool requiring all licensed miners to route hashrate through the state-backed platform, the Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology said.
"This initiative aligns with Oman Vision 2040 to diversify revenue sources beyond oil and establish the sultanate as a regional hub for digital asset infrastructure," a ministry spokesperson said.
The pool launched with approximately 10 exahashes per second in initial hashrate, about a third of Oman's projected total capacity of 30 EH/s, per Q2 2026 Hashrate Index data. Frontier Technologies manages operations while Enegix Global provides technology infrastructure and liquidity. Enegix's sovereign pools across multiple countries are approaching 25 EH/s combined.
The mandate gives regulators full visibility into mining output, anti-money laundering compliance, and tax reporting — a model that could influence other energy-rich nations exploring state-coordinated Bitcoin mining as an alternative to open-market treasury purchases.
Oman's push into Bitcoin mining predates the pool mandate. The Omani technology firm Exahertz operates a large mining center in the Salalah Free Zone backed by roughly $350 million in initial investment using Bitmain hardware. Green Data City, another project tied to Oman Vision 2040, completed phase one with 200 megawatts of mining capacity and plans to expand beyond 400 MW.
The regulatory framework stops short of recognizing cryptocurrency as legal tender. Mining has become the most heavily regulated segment of Oman's digital asset rules, with the new pool requirement centralizing oversight without the government directly owning the machines.
For companies like South Korea's Bitplanet, which signed a memorandum of understanding with Nasdaq-listed Antalpha to deploy $10.8 million in mining equipment at colocation sites in Oman and Paraguay, the pool mandate introduces a compliance layer. Bitplanet targets output of more than seven bitcoin per month and over 80 per year from its first phase, with plans to manage mined bitcoin as a long-term financial asset under what it calls a Digital Asset Treasury model.
The sovereign pool structure creates a potential blueprint for other Gulf Cooperation Council states seeking to reduce oil dependence while capturing Bitcoin mining's economic upside. Unlike corporate treasury strategies that buy bitcoin on the open market — a model popularized by MicroStrategy — Oman's approach generates bitcoin through production, adding a supply-side channel to its diversification playbook.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
