Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) (“Riot,” “Riot Platforms, Inc.” or “the Company”), (formerly Riot Blockchain, Inc.) an industry leader in Bitcoin mining and data center hosting, announces that it has rebranded its corporate name from Riot Blockchain, Inc. to Riot Platforms, Inc.

Riot remains focused on securing opportunities to enhance the Company’s expansion projects across its growing, vertically integrated business lines. Riot and Whinstone U.S. will brand together under Riot Platforms, Inc., while Riot’s electrical equipment manufacturing business will continue to operate under the ESS Metron brand in order to support its long-established client base.

Riot’s common stock continue to be listed for trading on NASDAQ Capital Market under the same ticker symbol ‘RIOT’. The Company’s common stock was not assigned a new CUSIP as a result of the name change and remains 767292105.

Riot’s (NASDAQ: RIOT) vision is to be the world’s leading Bitcoin-driven infrastructure platform.Riot is a Bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company focused on a vertically integrated strategy. The Company has Bitcoin mining data center operations in central Texas, Bitcoin mining operations in central Texas, and electrical switchgear engineering and fabrication operations in Denver, Colorado.