HIVE Completes Share Investment in DeFi Technologies

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 21, 2021 / HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (TSX.V:HIVE) (OTCQX:HVBTF) (FSE:HBF) (the “Company” or “HIVE”) is happy to announce that, additional to its announcement on March 25, 2021, it has accomplished the share swap transaction (the “Transaction”) with DeFi Technologies Inc. ((NEO:DEFI, GR:RMJR, OTC:RDNAF) (“DeFi Technologies”), pursuant to which HIVE will obtain 10,000,000 frequent shares of DeFi Technologies, representing roughly 5% of the present excellent frequent shares of DeFi Technologies in change for 4,000,000 frequent shares of the Company, representing roughly 1% of the Company’s issued and excellent frequent shares. Completion of the transaction is conditional on the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. In addition, HIVE and DeFi Technologies have created a partnership surrounding the “decentralized finance” (DeFi) ecosystem with particular purposes round Ethereum and Miner Extractable Value (MEV). The new partnership, which follows months of discussions, will present HIVE with a strategic stake in DeFi Technologies and a broader partnership surrounding the DeFi ecosystem with a selected deal with the Ethereum based mostly MEV area and developments surrounding it.

The growth in Ethereum has 3 highly effective drivers, and DeFi has been a considerable a part of the extra charges HIVE has obtained for mining Ethereum on the cloud. The different are Stablecoins and extra lately non-fungible tokens or NFT’s. We imagine DeFi is essentially the most important demand driver and our funding in DeFi Technologies offers our shareholders a double profit.

MEV refers back to the quantity of revenue miners can extract from reordering and censoring transactions on the blockchain. It has develop into an necessary situation over the previous yr because the DeFi area has grown from US$3B to US$71B in market capitalization. Of the $347.3M of Extracted MEV, 88% comes from DeFi actions. As could be seen from information by Coin Metrics, over half of all ETH miner income at present comes from transaction charges. By partnering collectively to tackle these actions, people get a extra capital environment friendly market to play in, whereas distributing better returns to miners for appearing extra altruistic.

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On Behalf of HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd.

“Frank Holmes”

Executive Chairman

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Frank Holmes

Tel: (604) 664-1078

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Forward-Looking Information

Except for the statements of historic reality, this information launch comprises “forward-looking info” throughout the which means of the relevant Canadian securities laws that’s based mostly on expectations, estimates and projections as on the date of this information launch. “Forward-looking info” in this information launch consists of details about the result of the strategic partnership with DeFi Technologies, the potential progress of decentralized finance, potential for the Company’s long-term progress, and the enterprise objectives and goals of the Company.

Factors that would trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these described in such forward-looking info embrace, however should not restricted to, if the strategic partnership with DeFi Technologies is just not as profitable because the Company hopes that will probably be; decentralized finance doesn’t develop into as broadly adopted as anticipated; the expansion in decentralized finance doesn’t happen; the digital foreign money market; the Company’s capacity to efficiently mine digital foreign money; the Company could not be capable to profitably liquidate its present digital foreign money stock, or in any respect; a decline in digital foreign money costs could have a major unfavorable impression on the Company’s operations; the volatility of digital foreign money costs; and different associated dangers as extra absolutely set out in the Filing Statement of the Company and different paperwork disclosed below the Company’s filings at www.sedar.com.

The forward-looking info in this information launch displays the present expectations, assumptions and/or beliefs of the Company based mostly on info at present obtainable to the Company. In reference to the forward-looking info contained in this information launch, the Company has made assumptions concerning the present profitability in mining cryptocurrency (together with pricing and quantity of present transaction exercise); worthwhile use of the Company’s property going ahead; the Company’s capacity to profitably liquidate its digital foreign money stock as required; historic costs of digital currencies and the power of the Company to mine digital currencies might be in line with historic costs; and there might be no regulation or legislation that may stop the Company from working its enterprise. The Company has additionally assumed that no important occasions happen exterior of the Company’s regular course of enterprise. Although the Company believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking info are affordable, forward-looking info is just not a assure of future efficiency and accordingly undue reliance shouldn’t be placed on such info because of the inherent uncertainty therein.

SOURCE: Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd