Mara allocated more than USD 70 million to the purchase of Auradine Terafux miners.
Trump’s tariff policies promote the production of mining equipment within the US.
Mara (Mara), the world’s largest Bitcoin mining public contribution company in the world, already has the Terafux mining devices of the American company Auradine, whose acquisition was announced by cryptooticias months ago. The new Asic equipment fleet would be ready to start operating, after the necessary logistics and infrastructure arrangements.
According to a mining site in the United States, the delivery Of these teams was confirmed in Mara’s last quarterly presentation. The new approach responds to a search for greater alignment with current geopolitical conditionsin an environment of commercial tensions with China.
During the first half of 2025, Mara allocated 73.3 million dollars to the early purchase of these equipment: 22.3 million in the first quarter and another 51 million in the second. That figure represents almost 70% of the 108 million dollars that the company allocated to suppliers during that period.
The ASIC received belong to the Auradine Terafux line and the adoption of this hardware represents a change with respect to Mara’s previous strategy, whose fleet of miners, during the Halving of 2020, It was composed almost entirely by devices of the Chinese firm Bitmain.
The current provider change implies not a technological renovation, but a geopolitical and commercial realignment.
From Bitmain to Auradine: a change with political anchor
The turn to American mining hardware is influenced by the commercial policies of President Donald Trump.
Among them, they are included Import Taxes of Mining Equipment Manufactured in Chinasuch as Bitmain and Microbt models, two of the most popular suppliers in the market.
As a result, for companies with operations within the United States, acquiring national ASIC could represent an economic and logistics advantage.
Given that situation, Bitmain, as Cryptonoticias reported, already prepares its production in the US. The Chinese company would install its first Asic factory for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in US lands in the third quarter of 2025.
At the end of June, Cryptonoticias reported that half of the teams commissioned by Mara during the first half of the year They came from Auradine.
At that time, the Marathon CEO had justified the decision with a rhetorical question: «In an environment with geopolitical risks and tariffs, if you can buy a miner manufactured in the US. UU. At the same price as a Chinese, do you choose the American? Yeah.”
Mara is not the only mining company to adopt this strategy. Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) also made a request for 1,000 units of the AT2880 model of the Teraft line.
It is an air -cooled ASIC developed by Auradine to operate with dynamic performance, a feature that allows Adjust electric consumption depending on the operational conditions or energy rates of the environment.
Asic’s growing manufacturing within the United States could have various consequences. In principle, it represents an industrial response to political and commercial tension scenarios, although, basically, it could also reduce centralization of the chips market for mine Bitcoin, sustained by Asian actors.
