Overview
- Oman formally launched Omanhash.om and designated it as the sole official and mandatory mining pool for licensed cryptocurrency miners, with Frontier Technologies as the local manager and Enegix Global supplying the technology.
- The ministry announced the pool on June 17, with an initial consolidation target of roughly 10 exahashes per second to bring large portions of national hashrate under a single, state-authorized layer.
- The move follows Oman’s multi-year push to build industrial mining capacity, including a $370 million hydro-cooled Salalah facility and more than $700 million of investment in the Salalah Free Zone.
- By forcing licensed miners to use a government-sanctioned pool, Oman gains real-time visibility into block rewards, energy consumption and revenue flows but also reduces miners' ability to choose pools or routing terms.
- Enegix frames the project as its second sovereign-pool mandate after Kazakhstan, and the next steps to watch are the detailed rules, enforcement mechanisms and whether firms relocate or accept the required pool terms.