Oman unites miners under state control: launch of a national pool
A sovereign approach to regulating cryptocurrency mining is reaching a new level: Oman has officially launched a national mining pool, which all licensed digital asset miners in the country are required to join. This decision, initiated by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology in collaboration with Frontier Technologies, marks a shift from fragmented mining to a centralized model of hash rate management.
The technological foundation of the project and liquidity infrastructure were provided by Enegix Global. In the initial phase, the pool will consolidate approximately 10 EH/s of computing power — comparable to the capacity of a mid-sized public mining operator, but under full state control.
Investment Boom and Infrastructure Giants
Since 2022, capital investments in mining and data center construction in the Salalah Free Economic Zone have exceeded $700 million. A key facility — a mining site with a hydro-cooling system worth $370 million — already demonstrates that Oman is betting on energy-efficient and scalable solutions.
Mandatory connection to the national pool means the state gains direct access to data on capacity distribution, energy consumption, and operational efficiency of each licensed miner. This is not just a regulatory measure — it is a tool for monitoring and optimizing the entire national mining ecosystem.
Expert Analysis: Oman presents a unique precedent — full centralization of mining within a single pool under state auspices. On one hand, this increases transparency and reduces risks of illegal capacity use. On the other, it creates a single point of failure: if the pool is compromised or shut down, all national cryptocurrency mining would come to a halt. In the long term, this model could become a benchmark for other Middle Eastern countries seeking total control over digital assets.