Oman Launches a Mandatory National Bitcoin Mining Pool

On June 17, 2026, Oman launched Omanhash, an official national mining pool operating under the country’s digital-asset regulatory structure. Enegix Global said it supplied the technological platform and liquidity infrastructure, while Omani firm Frontier Technologies handled local operations in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology.

The unusual feature was not simply that a mining pool operated from Oman. Under the announced framework, Omanhash was positioned as the sole official pool for licensed mining companies in the Sultanate. Instead of choosing among the large international pools that normally aggregate Bitcoin hashrate across borders, licensed Omani miners would route their work through a nationally coordinated system. Omanhash itself states that it currently supports BTC mining and pays miners through a full-pay-per-share model.

The structure gave regulators greater visibility into licensed mining activity while also concentrating transaction-template and payout infrastructure at a national level. That combination made Omanhash historically distinctive. Governments had licensed and hosted Bitcoin miners before, but a mandatory national-pool model represented a more direct sovereign role in the organization of hashrate.

For Bitcoin, the event illustrated the growing intersection between proof-of-work infrastructure and state industrial policy. Oman had already pursued large data-center and mining investments as part of economic diversification. Omanhash moved that relationship one step further by placing licensed Bitcoin mining inside a state-supervised national pooling layer.