CleanSpark Opens $100M Bitcoin-Backed Credit Facility with Two Prime
Rhea-AI Summary
CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner, has secured a new $100 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Two Prime, expanding its total collateralized lending facilities to $400 million. The non-dilutive financing will support the company's data center growth, Bitcoin mining hashrate deployment, and Digital Asset Management strategies.
The company currently holds a treasury balance of nearly 13,000 bitcoin and plans to utilize this financing for maximizing current megawatts, developing high-performance compute campuses, and expanding its digital asset operations. CleanSpark's management emphasizes strong cash flow position and ability to rapidly pay down debt, with the total credit capacity remaining largely undrawn.
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- Increased debt exposure through new credit facility
- Bitcoin-backed loans carry inherent crypto market volatility risks
News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, CLSK declined 5.33%, reflecting a notable negative market reaction. Argus tracked a trough of -9.2% from its starting point during tracking. Our momentum scanner triggered 36 alerts that day, indicating elevated trading interest and price volatility. This price movement removed approximately $216M from the company's valuation, bringing the market cap to $3.85B at that time.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
Proceeds to accelerate data center growth and support Digital Asset Management team's Bitcoin treasury monetization
This financing brings CleanSpark's total collateralized lending facilities to
"We are excited to add
"We are thrilled to support CleanSpark with this credit facility," said Alexander Blume, Chief Executive Officer of Two Prime. "At Two Prime, we take pride in being a trusted partner to leading institutional bitcoin firms, delivering fair pricing and reliable capital as the industry matures. Our commitment is to empower clients like CleanSpark with the resources they need to grow, and we look forward to building on this strong relationship well into the future."
"I am proud that we have so effectively utilized our treasury balance of nearly 13,000 bitcoin to finance growth through responsibly sized leverage with excellent partners like Two Prime, at a market-leading cost of capital," said Gary A. Vecchiarelli, CleanSpark's Chief Financial Officer and President. "With strong cash flow and accretive opportunities ahead, we are positioned to rapidly pay down debt, and our
About CleanSpark
CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), America's Bitcoin Miner®, is a market-leading Bitcoin miner with a proven track record of success. We own and operate a portfolio of data centers across
About Two Prime Lending
Two Prime Lending Limited delivers secured credit solutions to institutional bitcoin holders, offering over
We are an affiliate of Two Prime Inc., an SEC-Registered Investment Advisor specializing in digital asset quantitative trading, risk management, and trading for institutional clients.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In this press release, forward-looking statements include, but may not be limited to, statements regarding the Company's expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions, and strategies. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "could," "intends," "targets," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "forecasts," "predicts," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. The forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: the success and performance of the Company's non-bitcoin data center activities and expansion into non-bitcoin infrastructure; the impact of the CEO transition on relationships with vendors, regulators, employees and investors and the ability of the executive team to execute on the Company's strategies, in particular its pursuit of opportunities beyond bitcoin mining; completion of construction, regulatory approvals, and electrical power availability to achieve anticipated growth; the success and performance of the Company's digital asset management and derivatives trading activities, which were only recently commenced; the success of the Company's digital currency mining activities; the volatility in the price of Bitcoin and the volatile and unpredictable cycles in the emerging and evolving industries in which the Company operates; increasing difficulty rates for bitcoin mining; bitcoin halving; new or additional governmental regulation; the impacts of evolving global and
Investor Relations Contact
Harry Sudock
702-989-7693
ir@cleanspark.com
Media Contact
CleanSpark
Malory Van Guilder
651.335.0585
malory@skyya.com
Two Prime Media Contact
Dukas Linden Public Relations
Ryan Dicovitsky/Diana Bost
twoprime@dlpr.com
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