UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of March 2021
Commission File Number: 001-34238
THE9 LIMITED
17 Floor, No. 130 Wu Song Road
Hong Kou District, Shanghai 200080
People’s Republic of China
(Address of principal executive offices)
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EXHIBIT INDEX
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Press Release – The9 Signed Filecoin Mining Machine Purchase and Hosting Agreement to Enhance Filecoin (FIL) Mining |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| THE9 LIMITED | |||
| By | : | /s/ George Lai | |
| Name: | : | George Lai | |
| Title: | : | Director and Chief Financial Officer | |
Date: March 30, 2021
Exhibit 99.1
The9 Signed Filecoin Mining Machine Purchase and Hosting Agreement to Enhance Filecoin (FIL) Mining
Shanghai, China, March 30, 2021
The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) (“The9”), an established Internet company, today announced that it signed a Filecoin mining machine purchase and hosting agreement amounting to approximately US$2 million with a Filecoin mining service provider.
In February 2021, The9 signed a US$10 million framework agreement with a Filecoin mining machine vendor to purchase Filecoin mining machines. This new purchase agreement The9 just signed is with another Filecoin mining machine vendor. This new purchase will increase the effective storage mining power of The9 in the Filecoin network, especially in the current early stage of Filecoin's rapid development trend.
At present, The9 owns an independent node on Filecoin blockchain and 8 Pebibytes of effective storage mining power in the Filecoin network. When the two agreements are fully implemented, The9 is expected to have a total of more than 80 Pebibytes of effective storage mining power in the Filecoin network.
Filecoin is an open source, distributed storage and digital payment system. Users can use the preset economic incentive mechanism to store data to ensure that files are stored and accessed reliably for a long time. Users use the Filecoin (FIL) in the system to rent hard drive space; and storage miners are responsible for providing storage space to store files and proving these files have been stored correctly.
Based on Filecoin's technology and the expected continuous expansion of future application scenarios, as well as the recent positive price trend of Filecoin, The9 decided to increase the investment in Filecoin and the effective storage mining power in the Filecoin network, to fulfill its growth strategy in the cryptocurrency mining business.
For further information, please contact:
Ms. Connie Sun
Investor Relations Specialist
The9 Limited
Tel: +86-21-6108-6080
Email: IR@corp.the9.com
Website: https://www.the9.com/en