Oman unites miners: mandatory connection to the state pool
Oman's sovereign mining pool has become a reality. The country's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, together with Frontier Technologies, has launched a state-owned pool for cryptocurrency mining. This means that all licensed miners in Oman are now required to connect to a single national infrastructure.
The technological foundation of the project was provided by Enegix Global, which supplied the pool management platform and liquidity infrastructure. The solution is clearly aimed at centralizing control over mining activities and increasing operational transparency within the jurisdiction.
Scale and Investments
At the initial stage, the pool will unite approximately 10 EH/s of computing power. For comparison, this is comparable to the capacity of a medium-sized mining operator at the level of a public company. Since 2022, the total volume of investments in mining and data centers in the Salalah Free Zone has exceeded $700 million. This amount includes, in particular, the construction of a mining facility with hydro-cooling worth $370 million.
Oman is consistently transforming into one of the key mining hubs in the Middle East. The creation of a national pool is a logical step for a state seeking to monetize excess energy resources while maintaining control over the industry.
My analysis: Oman demonstrates a new trend — the sovereignization of mining. Other oil-producing countries, such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia, may follow this example. For miners, this means reduced operational freedom, but simultaneously — stable access to cheap energy and institutional support. In the long term, state-owned pools could become the standard for energy-surplus jurisdictions.