MicroBT Makes Strategic Investment in Blockware, Secures Long-Term ASIC Procurement Partnership

Gate News message, April 27 — MicroBT, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturers, announced a strategic investment in Blockware, a vertically integrated infrastructure platform spanning AI/HPC compute, Bitcoin mining, data center hosting, and marketplace liquidity. The partnership includes a long-term procurement program combining investment with coordinated deployments of MicroBT Bitcoin miners and AI data center infrastructure over the coming year.

Under the arrangement, Blockware gains priority access to next-generation ASIC capacity, coordinated global logistics, and dedicated execution support as it scales its fleet. CEO and Founder Mason Jappa stated the partnership signals confidence in Blockware’s operating model and reflects strong demand from institutional and enterprise customers for U.S.-based compute infrastructure.

Blockware intends to deploy the incoming hardware across its U.S. hosting footprint to support its mining marketplace, AI/HPC data centers, hosting operations, and institutional clients. The partnership deepens Blockware’s relationship with MicroBT amid rising global demand for next-generation ASIC capacity, providing Blockware greater predictability on hardware allocations while giving MicroBT a disciplined channel into the U.S. market.

Blockware has deployed over 400,000 servers and operates nearly 1 GW of energized capacity since its 2017 founding. MicroBT, established in 2016 and headquartered in Shenzhen, specializes in blockchain and AI chip research, development, and production.