Innopolis Tech.

Innopolis Tech is a Russian bitcoin mining company, registered in 2021 in Innopolis, a technology town near Kazan, in Tatarstan. It was founded by Nikolai Nikiforov, Russia’s minister of communications from 2012 to 2018, who ran it until September 2026. It is not a public pool: it mines with its own machines, powered by two gas power stations it bought in 2023 and 2025.

The first block found under its name, 891,161, came on 6 April 2025, though it had been mining for months before that: in November 2024 Nikiforov wrote that it was producing about two bitcoins a day. Its most recent block, 956,095, was found on 30 June 2026.

Each Innopolis Tech block pays its whole reward to a single address. That is the company’s own income from mining, separate from the transactions confirmed inside the block.

In September 2026 Russian investigators charged Nikiforov in his absence in their case against Finiko, which they call a pyramid scheme, Kommersant and Meduza reported, and a Moscow court ordered his arrest, also in his absence. He lives mostly in the United Arab Emirates and hasn’t spoken publicly about the charges. A new director replaced him at Innopolis Tech on 28 September.