Bit Digital (BTBT) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Date

Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10 a.m. ET

Call participants

• Chief Executive Officer — Samir Tabar
• Chief Financial Officer — Erke Huang

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Takeaways

• Total revenue -- $27.9 million, a decrease of 13.7% quarter over quarter from $32.3 million.
• Cloud services revenue -- $16.8 million, down 13.1% sequentially from Q4 2025.
• Collocation services revenue -- $4.8 million, up approximately 23.9% quarter over quarter.
• Ethereum staking revenue -- $2.3 million, a decline of 29.4% compared to Q4 2025, attributed to lower average Ethereum prices and reduced staked balances.
• Digital asset mining revenue -- $3.7 million, nearly a 33% decline quarter over quarter due to lower Bitcoin production and average Bitcoin prices.
• Ethereum holdings -- Approximately 155,000 ETH held as of March 31, valued at $327 million using a $2,100 per ETH mark.
• Natively staked Ethereum -- 60,700 ETH natively staked as of April 30.
• Average acquisition cost for Ethereum -- approximately $3,040 per ETH as of March 31.
• WhiteFiber Holdings -- approximately 27 million shares valued at approximately $322 million as of March 2026.
• Cash and cash equivalents -- $79.5 million at quarter end, down from $118.4 million at Dec. 31, 2025.
• Digital asset balance -- $295 million at quarter end, compared to $415.7 million at Dec. 31, 2025, with the reduction primarily driven by lower Ethereum prices.
• Convertible notes outstanding -- $334 million, with the increase attributed to issuance by WhiteFiber and consolidation into financial statements.
• Net loss -- $146.7 million, improved from a $185.3 million loss in the prior quarter, with both periods impacted by non-cash mark-to-market adjustments on digital assets.
• Strategic shift -- Ongoing decrease in Bitcoin mining exposure; mining remains cash flow positive but is no longer a strategic growth focus.
• Ethereum treasury update -- Bit Digital (NASDAQ:BTBT) was approved by the Ethereum Foundation to purchase ETH directly, with further updates anticipated soon.
• Acquisition strategy -- The company is actively pursuing acquisitions in Ethereum-adjacent infrastructure, trading, or market-making, aiming to enhance recurring revenue.
• Leverage policy -- Management stated a target to maintain leverage at 20% of Ethereum balances when considering additional financing.
• Clarity Act regulatory advancement -- "Yesterday, the Clarity advanced through the Senate Banking Committee and now moves forward in the Senate approval process."
• Business model outlook -- Management views AI infrastructure and Ethereum ecosystem convergence as the central long-term platform with ongoing diligence on further acquisition targets.

Summary

Bit Digital (NASDAQ:BTBT) emphasized a continued strategic shift away from legacy Bitcoin mining toward infrastructure, Ethereum treasury, and AI-related businesses. Company leaders framed Ethereum as the foundation for future digital settlement and highlighted new purchasing approval from the Ethereum Foundation. WhiteFiber Holdings remains a core non-monetized strategic asset representing substantial exposure to AI compute demand. Liquidity levels decreased as capital deployed into new ventures and digital asset values faced market-driven reductions. Potential acquisitions are under review to accelerate recurring revenue and expand Bit Digital's integrated digital infrastructure platform.

• Direct ETH purchases from the Ethereum Foundation were presented as validating Bit Digital’s strategic alignment with Ethereum’s ecosystem.
• Management does not intend to monetize its WhiteFiber position in 2026, signifying an ongoing commitment to AI infrastructure exposure.
• Regulatory developments such as the advancement of the Clarity Act are considered important for increased institutional adoption and market structure clarity within Ethereum-compatible infrastructure.
• Management reported, "continue to use, you know, 20% as the metrics for us to make a decision on whether we like to put on more leverage on PTBT," indicating a disciplined stance on leverage deployment tied to ETH holdings.
• The company expects the convergence of AI and Ethereum to present differentiated growth opportunities in the next two years.

Industry glossary

• Collocation services: Hosting customer-owned hardware in the company's data centers to provide power, cooling, and network connectivity.
• Staking: Locking up cryptocurrency to support blockchain network operations in exchange for rewards or yield.
• WhiteFiber: Bit Digital’s subsidiary or related holding, providing AI infrastructure and high-performance computing exposure.
• Ethereum Foundation: Non-profit organization supporting the development of the Ethereum blockchain and its ecosystem.
• Clarity Act: U.S. legislative bill aiming to provide regulatory clarity for digital asset markets and infrastructure.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Samir Tabar: Thank you, Daniel, and thank you, everyone, for joining us. Before I begin, I would like to extend a hand of welcome to our new Head of Investor Relations, Daniel Kennedy. He was formerly a Board member, adviser and director to publicly listed companies across the digital asset, crypto, fintech, and AI infrastructure sectors. Welcome aboard, Daniel, and we look forward to your abilities to share the BitDigital story and trajectory to our shareholders. Bit Digital continued advancing its strategic asset transition during the first quarter. Our business today is centered around 3 verticals: Ethereum treasury and staking, AI infrastructure through WhiteFiber, and building durable cash flow through disciplined capital allocation. We believe these businesses complement each other.

Ethereum provides long term treasury exposure and staking yield. WhiteFiber provides exposure to AI infrastructure and compute demand. Over time, we expect additional operating businesses to support recurring revenue generation across the platform. Starting with Ethereum. We continue viewing Ethereum as foundational infrastructure for digital assets and on chain financial activity. Our approach remains disciplined. We are focused on increasing ease per share over time while maintaining balance sheet flexibility and capital efficiency. Turning to our WhiteFiber Holdings. WhiteFiber remains a coarse strategic asset for BitDigital. And provides critical exposure to AI infrastructure where demand for compute continues to exceeding available supply. We expect these constraints to persist. Presenting opportunities which we believe we are uniquely positioned to capitalize on.

We continue viewing WhiteFiber as a long term holding and do not intend to monetize the position in 2026. Our company has a long history of execution in HPC delivering projects on time and on budget to customers and partners. Importantly, Bit Digital continues to maintain a significant ownership position in WhiteFiber. The company held approximately 27 million WhiteFiber shares with a value of approximately $322 million as of the March 2026. Turning briefly to mining. We continued reducing exposure to Bitcoin mining during the quarter. Mining remains cash flow generative. But it is no longer a strategic growth priority. Capital will continue shifting towards Ethereum and infrastructure related opportunities. Turning to the convergence and the constraint.

We believe AI and Ethereum are converging. We are uniquely positioned through our exposure to AI infrastructure, the Ethereum ecosystem, and strategic acquisitions. At the same time, demand for compute and power continues to exceed available supply. We believe compute itself is becoming sufficiently scarce and valuable to emerge as a new asset class. We are strategically positioned to capitalize on both the convergence and the constraint. Finally, we will continue evaluating opportunities to expand recurring cash flow generation across our strategic asset platform. We remain disciplined in our approach and focused on long term value creation rather than transaction volume. I will now turn the call over to Eric.

Erke Huang: Thank you, Samir. Our first quarter 26 results reflect the continued repositioning of the business toward infrastructure, staking and treasury operations. Total revenue for Q1 was $27.9 million compared to $32.3 million in Q4 25. This represents a decrease of 13.7% quarter over quarter. Cloud services revenue was $16.8 million down 13.1% Q over Q. Collocation services revenue was $4.8 million up around 23.9% quarter over quarter. Thinking revenue Ethereum's taking revenue was $2.3 million, down roughly 29.4% quarter over quarter. The decline reflected lower average Ethereum prices and lower natively stakes balances. Digital asset mining revenue was $3.7 million, down just under 33% quarter over quarter. Reflecting lower Bitcoin production and lower average Bitcoin prices during the quarter.

As of March 31, the company held approximately 155 thousand ETH year. As of April 30, approximately 60.7 thousand ethereum remained natively staked. Based on closing, Ethereum price of around $2.1 thousand per ethereum on March 31 the market value of the company's Ethereum holding or was $327 million. The company's average ATM acquisition price for all holdings was approximately $3.04 thousand as of 30 first 26. REMICS revenue mix continued shifting away from mining and towards Ethereum's taking car business, and colocation operations. We believe the transition can continue creating a more durable and scalable operation model centered around infrastructure, staking, and treasury management activities with lower dependency on legacy mining operations.

Net loss was $146.7 million in Q1 26 compared to $185.3 million in Q4 25. Results continue to be impacted by noncash mark to market adjustments on digital assets. Turning to the balance sheet. Cash and cash equivalents, were $79.5 million as of March 31, compared to $118.4 million as 12/31/2025. Digital assets totaled $295 million in quarter end, compared to $415.7 million as of December. The decline primarily reflects a lower ATM price in quarter end, rather than reductions in holdings. Ethereum price is roughly 2.3 thousand at the writing and has traded in the range between $1.8 thousand and, you $2.4 thousand since early February.

Comparable notes increased to $334 million with increase driven by the insurance of the notes by WhiteFiber. Which are consolidated within our financial statements. As of 2030 as of April, approximately 60.7 thousand remained late stage. Total lithium holdings were approximately 155 thousand ETH with a blended acquisition cost basis of around $3.03 thousand per Overall, our financial profile continues evolving towards infrastructure, staking, and treasury management. With reduced contribution from legacy Bitcoin mining operations. I will now turn the call back to Samir.

Samir Tabar: Thank you, Eric. BitDigital has become accustomed to being early and making bold calls. When you make calls early, criticism usually comes before consensus. We believe Ethereum will become the core settlement infrastructure for the future digital financial system. We believe we are simply early again. Data points tokenized assets, and on chain settlement activity are already scaling rapidly on Ethereum compatible infrastructure. Ethereum hosts the majority of stablecoin supply by market value, and remains the dominant settlement layer for institutional stablecoin activity. BlackRock launched its tokenized money market fund on ETH. We believe the broader financial system is increasingly moving toward regulatory and institutional integration with digital asset infrastructure.

We share the belief that everything of value will become eventually tokenized. Ethereum is also home to innovation in areas like zero knowledge payments. We do not believe this is temporary, It is only the beginning. Also, automated agentic workflows will increasingly transact without human intervention. The first iteration is likely to involve highly specialized agents interacting with each other to complete complex tasks automatically within predefined constraints. This will require a medium to exchange value. Ethereum offers programmable pragmatism through smart contracts. We also continue expanding our relationships across the Ethereum ecosystem, During the quarter, BitDigital was approved by the Ethereum Foundation to purchase ETH directly from the foundation.

We view that as an important validation of our long term to the ecosystem. More on that in the future. We also continue actively executing on our Ethereum treasury strategy and expect to provide a material update in the very near term. At the same time, we remain active we move excuse me. We at the same time, we remain active evaluating strategic acquisition opportunities aligned with our infrastructure and treasury strategy, We are currently engaged in ongoing diligence around a potential acquisition target that will contribute revenues to BitDigital. Our focus remains disciplined and long term.

We intend to continue building a business of crossroads of the Ethereum infrastructure, AI and HPC infrastructure, and durable cash flow through strategic acquisitions. We believe Ethereum infrastructure and AI compute are not separate strategies. But components of a single integrated platform aligned with the future digital financial system. Yesterday, the Clarity Act advanced through the Mhmm. Yesterday, the Clarity advanced through the Senate Banking Committee and now moves forward in the Senate approval process. Passage of the Clarity Act, would represent a meaningful step forward for Ethereum and the broader digital asset ecosystem. Clearer market structure regulatory clarity would support increased institutional participation and continued development of Ethereum compatible financial infrastructure.

The goal remains straightforward maintain balance sheet flexibility, allocate capital efficiently, and continue compounding long term shareholder value. With that, I would like to open the floor for some questions. Are there any analysts on the call?

Operator: Thank you. If you would like to ask the question, please signal by pressing *1 on your telephone keypad. If you are using a speakerphone, please make sure your mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach our equipment. Again, if you would like to ask a question, you press *1 on your telephone keypad. We will pause for just a moment to allow everyone an opportunity to signal for questions. We will now take your first question. Coming from the line of Nick Giles with B. Riley Securities.

Samir Tabar: Hi, Nick.

Analyst (Nick Giles): Yes. Hey, sir. Hey, guys. Yeah. Thanks very much. You know, my first question was just along the lines of BTBT is trading at a discounted MNAV. And I wanted to get your take just on where you need to see valuation before you might think about strategic acquisitions? And then as we think about targets, I mean, what would be the rough size of any target? How many of these types of acquisitions would you be comfortable making? Thanks a lot.

Samir Tabar: So the crypto industry in general with respect to the businesses that are on that are built on it, are trading at compressed valuations right now. So it is a good time to consider buying when there is a bear market or a mixed market in the sector. You kind of want to avoid buying when it is frothy. We think it is an interesting time to buy. And there are a lot of great businesses out there. There are also a lot of not so great businesses out there.

And we are in a good position with our balance sheet to buy a business that would strategically be aligned with BitDigital, and add revenue And it has to be I mean, there are a number of ways we can do this. It could be a trading or a market making firm. It could be an Ethereum adjacent infrastructure company. It could even be a company involved in the that is participating in the agentic economy. Because we believe that there is an intersection with Ethereum and AI. So these are the things we have been looking at We started that process at the beginning of this year. We have spoken to a number of candidates.

We continue to be on the hunt. And we look forward to hopefully selecting a candidate in an acquisition or maybe more than 1 acquisition. As you mentioned, it could be more than 1. And when we do, we expect it to be, we tend to be early at things, but they always they tend to work out. So we expect to be early and identify whatever candidate we decide to acquire. And we will offer our rationale, and we will see how it unleashes in terms of valuation in the future.

Analyst (Nick Giles): Hey, Samir. No. I really appreciate that perspective. So just if I could try and clarify those thoughts. You would be using cash on the balance sheet because you know, with BTBT trading at a discount to NAV, it would maybe it would make less sense to use your currency. But like you said, if there are you know, good businesses trading at cheap discounts, this is it the time to take action? Is that a fair summary?

Samir Tabar: That is a fair summary. Eric, do you agree?

Erke Huang: Yeah. Absolutely.

Analyst (Nick Giles): Okay. Very helpful. I will turn it over, guys. But for the update.

Operator: Thank you. Again, if you would like to ask a question, you may press 1 on your telephone keypad. We will now take your next question coming from the line of George Sutton with Craig-Hallum.

Samir Tabar: Hi, George.

Analyst (George Sutton): Hey, guys. Logan on for George Sutton today. Thanks for taking the question. So Samir, I am curious to get maybe your thoughts on some of the new privacy focused blockchains that seem to be getting more activity like a Canton, for example. I guess, do you view those as competitors to Ethereum over time kind of competing for activity?

Samir Tabar: I think it comes down to network effects. it is really difficult to get network effects in any private blockchain. It kind of reminds me of the intranet, if you recall. You are not I just think you need network effects in order to make something quite valuable. that is just my opinion. I understand that others may disagree. But I do not the 1 that you are referring to, I do not have enough knowledge about it for me to really opine too heavily. To be honest.

Analyst (George Sutton): Okay. Yep. No. Fair enough. Just 1 other for me, kind of thinking towards, maybe an environment where capital raising is a bit more, kind of the doors are open? I think in the past, you have talked about trying to keep leverage down to 20% of Ethereum balances. I am just curious if that is sort of still how you would approach that or if there is any flexibility to that. And would unsecured debt kind of still be your preferred route? I know other companies have been focused on preferreds, but just want to get a better picture of kind of how that might work. Again, in a market environment that is kind of more conducive to it.

Samir Tabar: Yeah, Eric. Do you wanna take that?

Erke Huang: Yeah. If I may add, yes. Leveraging will continue to be a key consideration when doing fundraising, especially taking, let's say, convertible or other, you know, debt form of financing. So we, you know, continue to use, you know, 20% as the metrics for us to make a decision on whether we like to put on more leverage on PTBT. Yeah. And in terms of other forms of financing, your equity as another tool as well. But as we will all see if the digital is treating at a discount MF. But with the acquisition targets surfing, you know, those were the tools we can use as well.

Analyst (George Sutton): Helpful. Okay. that is all for me. Thanks, guys.

Operator: Your next question will come from the line of Brian Dobson with Clear Street.

Samir Tabar: Hi, Brian.

Analyst (Brian Dobson): Hey, how are you doing? Thanks so much for taking my question. Digital's evolved a lot. Over the course of the past 3 years. Some very exciting opportunities ahead of you is to discuss strategic acquisitions As you are thinking about the future, what do you think this business looks like in 2 years?

Samir Tabar: The digital, what it will look like in 2 years? Yeah. As you are kind of evolving the business model. Yeah. I mean, we do not see the intersection of AI and ease going away anytime soon. We expect to really want to-- we just really want to participate in those future trends. And during my earnings call today, I did talk about AgenTeq AI, and I think that there is a natural home for counterparties to interact with each other, and that would be on Ethereum. So we would like to continue digging in. On that theme, and we think that theme will only grow stronger over the next 2 years.

Analyst (Brian Dobson): Yeah. that is fantastic. Thanks a lot.

Operator: And it appears there are no additional questions at this time. I will turn it back to you for your closing remarks.

Samir Tabar: Thank you for joining us today. We do appreciate your continued interest and support, and we look forward to speaking with you again in the next quarter. There will be many announcements. Thank you. Thank you.

Operator: This concludes today's call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.

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