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Written by Amin Haqshanas, Staff Writer.
Reviewed by Yohan Yun, Staff Editor.
Bitcoin miner Canaan posts $88.7M net loss in Q1 amid BTC decline
Latest NewsPublishedMay 19, 2026
Canaan’s Q1 results were dragged down by a $25 million inventory write-down and a 75% quarterly drop in equipment sales as Bitcoin prices retreated from their highs.
Bitcoin miner Canaan reported a net loss of $88.7 million for the first quarter of 2026, as falling Bitcoin (BTC) prices squeezed margins and triggered a notable inventory write-down.
The company posted total revenue of $62.7 million for the quarter ending March 31, a sharp decline from the $196.3 million it recorded in the previous quarter, as reported by a Tuesday press release.
Industrial mining equipment remained the company’s primary revenue driver at $39.6 million, though sales tumbled 75% from the prior quarter. Self-mining contributed $19.1 million, while the home mining segment brought in $2.7 million, a category that more than doubled year-on-year.
Source: Canaan
“Although average Bitcoin prices and hashprice declined significantly quarter-over-quarter, our bitcoin production experienced a comparatively smaller decline, reflecting the resilience of our mining operations and continued hashrate deployment,” Jin (James) Cheng, chief financial officer of Canaan, stated.
A $25 million inventory write-down weighed on the quarter’s gross loss of $23 million, while loss from operations reached $54.3 million.
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Canaan’s self-mining hashrate surges 66%
Canaan expanded its self-mining footprint to 11 exahashes per second of installed computing power, a 66% jump from a year earlier. The company held 1,808 Bitcoin on its balance sheet as of March 31, valued at approximately $121 million.
In the quarter, Canaan also completed the acquisition of Cipher Mining’s 49% stake in three West Texas joint venture projects totaling roughly 4.4 EH/s in hashrate capacity and 120 megawatts of power. The deal, closed through a share issuance rather than cash, gives Canaan access to power rates below three cents per kilowatt-hour on the ERCOT grid.
Looking ahead, Canaan guided Q2 revenues between $35 million and $45 million, a further sequential decline.
Canaan shares closed down 3.54% at $0.4827 on Monday, shedding a further 7.71% in pre-market trading to $0.4455, as reported by Yahoo Finance.
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Major miners report losses in Q1
Across the sector, major miners including Riot Platforms, Core Scientific, CleanSpark and TeraWulf all reported widening losses in Q1. MARA topped the group with a $1.3 billion net loss, roughly $1 billion of it tied to non-cash mark-to-market adjustments on its Bitcoin holdings.
As mining margins compress, a growing number of miners are pivoting toward AI and high-performance computing as an alternative revenue stream. On Monday, HIVE Digital Technologies revealed plans to build a 320-megawatt AI data center campus near Toronto, capable of supporting more than 100,000 GPUs at full build-out.
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