Canaan Avalon ASIC mining

Canaan Avalon Models

Canaan Avalon is one of the pioneering names in ASIC mining hardware — Canaan built the very first commercial Bitcoin ASIC miner back in 2013 and remains the third-largest SHA-256 ASIC manufacturer today, behind only Bitmain and MicroBT. The Avalon series is known for competitive efficiency and a strong presence in both industrial farms and home mining setups.

You can find a list of all supported Canaan Avalon models in the left menu (AVALON TYPE).

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About Canaan Inc.

Canaan Inc. is a Chinese semiconductor and mining-hardware company founded in 2013 in Hangzhou, China. Canaan holds a genuinely unique place in cryptocurrency history: its original Avalon design (first shipped in early 2013) is widely credited as the very first commercially sold Bitcoin ASIC miner, predating both Bitmain's Antminer line and MicroBT's Whatsminer line by years. Canaan went public on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker CAN in November 2019, making it one of the few publicly listed pure-play ASIC mining hardware manufacturers in the world.

Company History and the Avalon Product Line

Despite being first to market with ASIC hardware, Canaan spent much of the following decade as the clear number-three player behind Bitmain and MicroBT, a position it holds to this day. The company's flagship Avalon series has gone through many generations over the years (A7 → A8 → A9 → A10 → A11 → A12 → A13 → A14 → A15 → A16), each bringing incremental efficiency gains in the race against Bitmain's Antminer S-series and MicroBT's Whatsminer M-series.

In recent years Canaan has also pushed into the home and hobbyist mining segment with compact, quiet devices like the Avalon Q and Avalon Nano series — a market niche that Bitmain and MicroBT have been slower to address directly, and one where Canaan's early brand recognition among long-time Bitcoin enthusiasts gives it a notable advantage. Canaan operates its hardware sales and support primarily through its wholly owned subsidiary Canaan Creative, which is based in Singapore and handles international distribution deals, including bulk purchase agreements with large publicly traded mining companies.

Official Canaan / Avalon Resources

Always buy Avalon hardware directly from Canaan Creative's official channels or an authorized reseller — as with every major ASIC brand, counterfeit units and fake storefronts impersonating official domains are a real and well-documented risk in the secondary mining-hardware market.