Riot Platforms repays $200M credit facility, releases collateral
Riot Platforms repaid a $200 million Coinbase credit facility on Sept. 21 and ended a secured borrowing arrangement that carried a fixed 6.15% rate and had been set to mature in April 2027. The repayment released 5,821 bitcoin that had been pledged as collateral, and one account of the stack put its value at about $494 million at roughly $84,800 per coin. Riot also continues building out data-center operations and has been shifting toward project-specific financing for that work.
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Riot Platforms’ debt move is visible to shareholders, lenders, and people watching its balance sheet because the company no longer has that Coinbase facility in place and the pledged bitcoin has been released. Anyone tracking the miner’s financing now sees more bitcoin sitting outside that loan structure, alongside its continued push into data-center work.
Before this repayment, the bitcoin collateral was tied to a $200 million borrowing with a fixed rate and an April 2027 maturity date. After the repayment, that specific loan structure is gone, while Riot’s work on data-center expansion and project-specific financing remains in place.
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