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<p>Dubai-headquartered crypto mining firm Phoenix has <a href="https://x.com/phoenixgroupuae/status/1731990471222628544?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">debuted</a> on its Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). The mining equipment hardware retailer witnessed a 50% surge in its share price following a successful initial public offering (IPO) that raked in $371 million.</p><h2 id="header-0">Fortuitous IPO scheduling</h2><p>It emerged last week that the company had <a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/phoenix-group-adjusts-public-trading-launch-date-f9fbc3476281" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">adjusted</a> its ADX IPO launch date from Monday to Tuesday to account for the holiday schedule in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and to “ensure comprehensive participation in the IPO.”</p><p>That adjustment may have been significant in garnering the level of participation that transpired. Bitcoin and to a lesser extent, the broader crypto market, surged to levels not seen since early 2022. From a low of $876 billion on June 15, 2022, overall crypto market capitalization currently <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/global-charts" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">stands</a> at $1.6 trillion.</p><p>With the Bitcoin unit price having exceeded the $42,000 level on Monday for a time, it’s likely that news of a crypto market resurgence would have aided Phoenix Group’s IPO success on Tuesday morning. In trading on Monday, publicly quoted bitcoin miners such as Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital and CleanSpark had recorded share price gains of between 8 and 11% on the Nasdaq in the United States.</p><h2 id="header-1">Surpassing expectations</h2><p>Tuesday’s trading surpassed the expectations of even the most optimistic analysts, with shares opening at 2.25 dirhams and marking a 50% increase from the IPO price of 1.50 dirhams. The ADX, chosen as the platform for Phoenix’s IPO, was strategically selected due to its alignment with the company’s dynamic vision and the rapidly expanding financial market it offers.</p><p>The overwhelming response from investors resulted in a 33-times <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/11/21/2783783/0/en/Phoenix-Group-s-IPO-Sees-Unprecedented-180x-Oversubscription-from-Retail-Investors-Signifying-Strong-Market-Confidence.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">oversubscribed</a> offering, translating into orders totaling $12 billion. The retail portion of the offering experienced an even more astonishing over-subscription rate of 180x.</p><p>Munaf Ali, Co-Founder &amp; Group MD of Phoenix, sees this milestone not merely as a listing event but as a profound declaration of the Middle East’s ascendance in the global tech and blockchain landscape. He attributes the success of Phoenix’s debut to a burgeoning appetite for financial innovations in the Middle East, underscoring the growing interest in exposure to the cryptocurrency sector among investors in the region.</p><h2 id="header-2">Mining to AI pivot</h2><p>Phoenix’s debut on the ADX occurs at a time when other publicly listed companies in the cryptocurrency sector are reorienting their focus from mining digital currencies to supporting the computational needs of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. In 2022, the sector generated revenues of $6 billion, a slight dip from the record-breaking year of 2021.</p><p>Industry analysts, including JPMorgan, posit that the high-performance computing (HPC) sector in AI could prove more profitable than Bitcoin mining. This strategic shift is evident in the rebranding of well-known Bitcoin mining entities such as Riot Blockchain (now Riot Platform) and Hive Blockchain Technologies (now Hive Digital Technologies), emphasizing their diversification efforts.</p><p>Phoenix, acknowledging the potential of the AI-focused sector, believes it could complement its existing operations and contribute to future growth, aligning with JPMorgan’s forecasts regarding the profitability of HPC in the AI industry.</p>

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