HONG KONG, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) (“Cango” or the “Company”) today announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisitions of on-rack crypto mining machines with an aggregate hashrate of 18 Exahash per second through issuance of 146,670,925 Class A ordinary shares of the Company to the sellers in proportion to the aggregate hashrate of the machines sold by each seller (the “Share-Settled Transactions”).
The Company announced signing of the On-Rack Sales and Purchase Agreement for the Share-Settled Transactions (the “Purchase Agreement”) on November 6, 2024, and amendments to the Purchase Agreement on March 26, 2025, April 3, 2025, June 4, 2025 and June 23, 2025. All closing conditions for the Share-Settled Transactions were satisfied or waived in accordance with the Purchase Agreement, including NYSE’s authorization of the Company’s supplemental listing application with respect to the Class A ordinary shares issued at the closing of the Share-Settled Transactions, and the transactions were closed on June 27, 2025.
With closing of the Share-Settled Transactions, Golden TechGen Limited (“GT”), which is the largest seller in the Share-Settled Transactions, currently owns approximately 19.85% of the Company’s total outstanding shares, and all the sellers in the Share-Settled Transactions in the aggregate own approximately 41.38% of the Company’s total outstanding shares before the issuance of any Bonus Shares or Adjustment Shares as described in the press release issued by the Company on June 4, 2025 announcing the third amendment to the Share-Settled Transactions.
The mining machines that the Company purchases in the Share-Settled Transactions are currently in active mining operation and hosted in data centers in several countries outside China, with the majority located in the U.S. The Company will continue to host the machines in their existing data centers and have engaged a service provider to provide operational and maintenance services for the machines after closing of the Share-Settled Transactions. The closing of the Share-Settled Transactions is expected to further support the Company in its expansion and growth in the crypto asset space.
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