(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Rebrands to Cipher Digital to Reflect Strategic Shift Toward HPC Divested 49% Stake in Alborz, Bear, and Chief Mining Sites
Secured Full Funding for Existing Data Center Developments Through High-Yield Bond Offerings
Data Center Development on Track at Barber Lake and Black Pearl
NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cipher Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) (“Cipher” or the“Company”) today announced its fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results, with an update on its operations and business strategy.
“Building on a transformative 2025, the fourth quarter reflected continued momentum as we advanced our evolution into a leading HPC data center development company,” said Tyler Page, Chief Executive Officer.“During the quarter, we upsized our initial lease with Fluidstack and Google and signed our first HPC lease with Amazon. In addition, we successfully executed multiple high yield bond offerings to finance two of our existing HPC projects at Barber Lake and Black Pearl. In recognition of this successful shift in our business model and strategic priorities going forward, we are proud to now officially operate as Cipher Digital.”
The rebrand to Cipher Digital reflects the Company's full strategic transition toward a business model centered on stable, long-duration cash flows and long-term leases with best-in-class hyperscale customers. Cipher is focused on sourcing and securing power, developing advanced data centers purpose-built for HPC workloads, and leasing capacity to the world's leading technology companies. While bitcoin mining played a foundational role in building Cipher's power origination expertise and large-scale development capabilities, the Company's identity has evolved to focus on enabling next-generation compute at industrial scale.
In line with this new direction, Cipher sold its 49% interest in the three 40 MW joint venture sites, Alborz, Bear, and Chief, as well as select bitcoin mining machines previously deployed at Black Pearl. These non-core assets were acquired by Canaan Inc., a vertically integrated innovator in crypto mining, for approximately $40 million in an all-stock transaction. This transaction allows Cipher to simplify the business structure, maintain optimized exposure to the bitcoin mining industry in a capital-light manner, and accelerate the strategic transition.
In addition, the Company successfully executed three high-yield offerings to finance the construction at Barber Lake and Black Pearl. In the first transaction, Cipher raised $1.4 billion in aggregate principal of senior secured notes at 7.125%. Subsequently, the Company offered $333 million in additional aggregate principal at the same rate, bringing the total size of the financing for Barber Lake to $1.73 billion. The third high-yield offering raised $2.0 billion in aggregate principal of senior secured notes at 6.125%, with the substantially lower rate reflecting the Company's continued maturation and strong investor confidence.
With financing secured, the Company has cleared another major hurdle in the execution of these large-scale projects. Cipher is now fully focused on the construction and delivery of Barber Lake and Black Pearl, both of which remain on schedule, supported by our best-in-class construction team.
“2026 is a year of execution for Cipher as we fully transition the business into a leading infrastructure platform. With construction on track at our existing projects, a deep and expanding development pipeline, and heightened demand from both capital providers and tenants, we are firmly focused on establishing Cipher Digital as the premier developer and operator of data centers powering the next generation of compute,” added Mr. Page.
Finance and Operations Highlights
Rebranded from Cipher Mining to Cipher Digital, reflecting the Company's pivot from bitcoin mining to HPC data center development Secured 600 MW gross of total contracted HPC capacity to date across two leases, a 15-year 300 MW lease with AWS and a 10-year 300 MW lease with Fluidstack and Google Completed three bond offerings to finance HPC data center buildouts for aggregate proceeds of $3.73 billion Barber Lake data center development is progressing on track with ~95% of long lead equipment secured and all current design milestones achieved Black Pearl data center development is on schedule, with engineering, procurement, and construction activities underway Q4 2025 Revenue of $60 million and Adjusted Net Loss of $55 million
Business Update Call and Webcast
The live webcast and a webcast replay of the conference call can be accessed from the investor relations section of Cipher's website at .
About Cipher
Cipher develops and operates industrial-scale data centers engineered for next-generation computing at the highest standards of innovation, precision, and excellence. The Company brings together deep expertise across power sourcing, construction, engineering, operations, real estate, and technology to deliver high-quality data centers purpose built for HPC workloads. By partnering with premier tenants, Cipher seeks to meet the growing demand for industrial-scale data center capacity and become a leading HPC development platform that is built for hyperscale. To learn more about Cipher, please visit
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws of the United States. The Company intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and includes this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions. Any statements made in this press release that are not statements of historical fact, such as, statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations regarding its future results of operations and financial position, its planned business model and strategy, its data center development, timing and likelihood of success, capacity, functionality and timing of operation of data centers, expectations regarding the operations of data centers, potential strategic initiatives, such as joint ventures and partnerships, and management plans and objectives, are forward-looking statements and should be evaluated as such. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words“may,”“will,”“should,”“expects,”“plans,”“anticipates,”“could,”“seeks,”“intends,”“targets,”“projects,”“contemplates,”“believes,”“estimates,”“strategy,”“future,”“forecasts,”“opportunity,”“predicts,”“potential,”“would,”“will likely result,”“continue,” and similar expressions (including the negative versions of such words or expressions).
These forward-looking statements are based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by Cipher and its management, are inherently uncertain. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: volatility in the price of Cipher's securities due to a variety of factors, including changes in the competitive and regulated industry in which Cipher operates, Cipher's evolving business model and strategy and efforts it may make to modify aspects of its business model or engage in various strategic initiatives, variations in performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting Cipher's business, and the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations and to identify and realize additional opportunities. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the“Risk Factors” section of Cipher's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (“Annual Report”) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and in Cipher's subsequent filings with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Cipher assumes no obligation and, except as required by law, does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes supplemental financial measures for Adjusted Earnings (Loss) and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) per share - diluted, in each case that exclude the impact of (i) the non-cash change in fair value of derivative asset, (ii) share-based compensation expense, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) deferred income tax expense, (v) nonrecurring gains and losses, (vi) the non-cash change in fair value of warrant liability, (vii) non-cash losses related to miners reclassified as held for sale, (viii) impairment of long-lived assets, and (ix) non-cash disposal of miners. These supplemental financial measures are not measurements of financial performance under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) and, as a result, these supplemental financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally to help understand, manage, and evaluate our business performance and to help make operating decisions. We believe the use of these non-GAAP financial measures can also facilitate comparison of our operating results to those of our competitors by excluding certain items that vary in our industry based on company policy.
Non-GAAP financial measures are subject to material limitations as they are not in accordance with, or a substitute for, measurements prepared in accordance with GAAP. For example, we expect that share-based compensation expense, which is excluded from the non-GAAP financial measure, will continue to be a significant recurring expense over the coming years and is an important part of the compensation provided to certain employees, officers and directors. Similarly, we expect that depreciation and amortization will continue to be a recurring expense over the term of the useful life of the related assets. Our non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation and should be read only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in our Annual Report, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. We rely primarily on such consolidated financial statements to understand, manage and evaluate our business performance and use the non-GAAP financial measures only supplementally.
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CIPHER DIGITAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except for share and per share amounts)
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| | | |
| December 31, 2025 | | December 31, 2024 |
| ASSETS | | | |
| Current assets | | | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 628,263 | | | $ | 5,585 | |
| Restricted cash, current | | 1,761,292 | | | | - | |
| Accounts receivable | | 687 | | | | 596 | |
| Receivables, related party | | 271 | | | | 2,090 | |
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | | 7,977 | | | | 3,387 | |
| Bitcoin | | 125,400 | | | | 92,651 | |
| Receivable for bitcoin collateral | | - | | | | 32,248 | |
| Miners held for sale | | 94,879 | | | | - | |
| Derivative asset | | 34,090 | | | | 31,648 | |
| Total current assets | | 2,652,859 | | | | 168,205 | |
| Restricted cash, noncurrent | | 275,076 | | | | 14,392 | |
| Property and equipment, net | | 622,455 | | | | 480,865 | |
| Deposits on equipment | | 10,962 | | | | 38,872 | |
| Intangible assets, net | | 77,388 | | | | 8,881 | |
| Investment in equity investees | | 29,400 | | | | 53,908 | |
| Derivative asset | | 22,720 | | | | 54,022 | |
| Operating lease right-of-use asset | | 11,321 | | | | 12,561 | |
| Security deposits | | 27,732 | | | | 19,782 | |
| Other noncurrent assets | | 561,995 | | | | 3,958 | |
| Total assets | $ | 4,291,908 | | | $ | 855,446 | |
LIABILITIES, REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTEREST, AND
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY | | | |
| Current liabilities | | | |
| Accounts payable | $ | 40,064 | | | $ | 22,699 | |
| Accrued expenses and other current liabilities | | 90,086 | | | | 69,824 | |
| Finance lease liability, current portion | | 4,237 | | | | 3,798 | |
| Operating lease liability, current portion | | 1,731 | | | | 3,127 | |
| Warrant liability | | 525,160 | | | | - | |
| Short-term borrowings | | 37,793 | | | | 32,330 | |
| Total current liabilities | | 699,071 | | | | 131,778 | |
| Long-term borrowings, net | | 2,711,648 | | | | - | |
| Asset retirement obligations | | 33,696 | | | | 20,282 | |
| Finance lease liability | | 3,094 | | | | 7,331 | |
| Operating lease liability | | 8,545 | | | | 9,833 | |
| Deferred tax liability | | - | | | | 4,269 | |
| Total liabilities | | 3,456,054 | | | | 173,493 | |
| Commitments and contingencies (Note 14) | | | |
| Redeemable noncontrolling interest | | 30,319 | | | | - | |
| Stockholders' equity | | | |
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized, none issued and
outstanding as of December 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024 | | - | | | | - | |
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 1,000,000,000 and 500,000,000 shares authorized
as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, 412,074,529 and
361,432,449 shares issued as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024,
respectively, and 404,963,061 and 350,783,817 shares outstanding as of
December 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, respectively | | 412 | | | | 361 | |
| Additional paid-in capital | | 1,808,786 | | | | 863,015 | |
| Accumulated deficit | | (1,003,656 | ) | | | (181,412 | ) |
| Treasury stock, at par, 7,111,468 and 10,648,632 shares at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively | | (7 | ) | | | (11 | ) |
| Total stockholders' equity | | 805,535 | | | | 681,953 | |
| Total liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interest, and stockholders' equity | $ | 4,291,908 | | | $ | 855,446 | |
The following are reconciliations of our Adjusted Earnings (Loss) and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) per share - diluted, in each case excluding the impact of (i) the non-cash change in fair value of derivative asset, (ii) share-based compensation expense, (iii) depreciation and amortization, (iv) deferred income tax expense, (v) nonrecurring gains and losses, (vi) the non-cash change in fair value of warrant liability, (vii) non-cash losses related to miners reclassified as held for sale, (viii) impairment of long-lived assets, and (ix) non-cash disposal of miners, to the most directly comparable GAAP measures for the periods indicated (in thousands, except for per share amounts):
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