Foundry vs Riot Platforms

How Foundry vs Riot Platforms compare on our ratings, mining company specs, funding, pros and cons.

Feature	Foundry Visit	Riot Platforms Visit
Ratings
Our score	4.3/5	3.7/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Track record	4.5	3.5
Costs & fees	4.5	3.0
Transparency	3.5	4.5
Scale & reliability	5.0	5.0
Support	3.5	3.0
Specs
Type	Mining pool, Firmware & software	Public miner
Coins	BTC, ZEC	BTC
Pool fee	0%	Not disclosed
Payout schemes	FPPS	Not disclosed
Minimum payout	0.001 BTC	Not disclosed
Hashrate	Not disclosed	44.4 EH/s
Stock ticker	Not disclosed	RIOT
Locations	United States	Corsicana, Texas, Rockdale, Texas, Paducah, Kentucky
Company
Founded	2019	—
Headquarters	United States	United States
Investors	Digital Currency Group	Morgan Stanley
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	Controls 24% to 30% of global Bitcoin network hashrate Operates under a 0% headline pool fee structure Uses Full Pay-Per-Share accounting for predictable revenue settlement Low minimum payout threshold set at 0.001 BTC	Operates 44.4 EH/s of self-mining capacity on a 2.0 GW approved power pipeline Controls custom power distribution and switchgear production through in-house engineering subsidiaries Held 11,380 Bitcoin on its balance sheet as of June 30, 2026 Diversified revenue with 241 MW of long-term commercial HPC and AI data center contracts
Cons	Strict corporate KYC onboarding excludes retail and home ASIC miners High market share creates Bitcoin network hashrate centralization concerns Limited to Bitcoin and Zcash with no merged mining options Stratum V2 end-user access is not yet publicly deployed	Offers no third-party retail hosting, cloud mining, or open pool services Reported a net loss of $237.2 million for the second quarter of 2026 Heavy operational concentration in the Texas ERCOT power grid Revenues are exposed to Bitcoin halving cuts and rising network difficulty
Best for	North American institutional Bitcoin miners, Commercial hosting facility operators, Enterprise entities seeking FPPS payouts	Institutional equity investors seeking Bitcoin exposure, Enterprise AI firms leasing high-density data centers, Investors tracking industrial crypto infrastructure

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