Next presenting company is DMG Blockchain Solutions, TSX Venture listed company with ticker DMGI. DMG is also listed on the OTC with ticker DMGGF. DMG Blockchain Solutions offers services in digital asset mining and blockchain software development. Presenting today is Chief Operating Officer Steven Eliscu.
And hope everyone's having a good conference. So today, I wanna tell you about DMG. We are a Bitcoin miner and a whole lot more. But first, we, of course, are gonna be making forward-looking statements today. Please read, download the presentation that's available on our website and read these carefully. So a little bit about DMG. We were founded 2016, went public 2018. Our stock is fairly liquid. Our headquarters is just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. We have a software subsidiary and a data center that's based in Eastern British Columbia, in a beautiful town called Christina Lake. In terms of our financials, just some key takeaways is we are generating cash. We have a solid asset base, nearly CAD 40 million. These are all denominated in Canadian in cash and crypto, and CAD 111 million of total assets.
So to understand where DMG is going, it's useful to take a look at our history. Now, we've always had this dual track of Bitcoin mining. Initially, we started in the hosting business or colocation, and then software with the acquisition in 2018, shortly after we went public, of a company called Blockseer with their product called Explorer. And over the years, we've evolved from a hoster to a Bitcoin miner. We're in the process of building out new capacity that we target, our target is to get to 1.7 exahash by the end of this quarter.
And along with that, on the software side, is building a software suite, and to provide a number of software and services with our crown jewel being Systemic Trust, and our goal is to become Canada's second qualified custodian here before the end of the calendar year, and we've achieved a number of milestones towards achieving that goal. So we've talked about our strategy in terms of Bitcoin mining and software and services. But to make it easy, we just give our Bitcoin mining and our colocation services the name Core and our software and services, Core +. So what are we trying to achieve with this?
is to build an ecosystem, and with this ecosystem is this larger goal to first be able to generate blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain that are carbon neutral, and in turn, fill those blocks with transactions from financial institutions and content creators. Let's just go a little deeper into this. With regards to our own mining, we're being Christina Lake, we're in British Columbia, we're hydro-based. We've talked about an additional site that we're looking to build out that also is hydro-based. We hope to announce that soon. And we're doing a number of initiatives to be able to expand our footprint. And also, when we talk about data centers longer term, we're also talking about AI colocation.
But along with that, to be able to generate enough blocks, because our goal is not to be the largest Bitcoin miner, but really have this level of vertical integration where we add in the software and services, so we need to pool together the hash rate of other carbon-neutral miners, or at least miners that have a portion of their hash rate that is generated using carbon-neutral energy sources, which in turn can be sent to our pool. By having enough blocks each day that are generated, we can satisfy the demand that the financial institutions and content creators that we believe is a demand that's not being filled right now, and that is to be able to offer to financial institutions the choice to be able to send Bitcoin without adding carbon.
We also, as it says there, is to also not commingle with bad actors. And we know from a regulatory compliance and ESG initiatives that the financial institutions have, just as now Bitcoin is becoming institutional-ready with the US spot Bitcoin ETFs being approved, we feel we'd be able to give an, not just an option, but a compelling option that will enable them to actually meet their charter. So we look at from there, so how do we monetize that? And we look at the two key pieces for the pool is not only to charge pool fees, but also fees on transacting through Terra Pool from being able to utilize that we can charge the others, including our own Systemic Trust fees to inscribe ordinals from people who want to add ordinals to the Bitcoin blockchain without adding carbon.
And our larger vision is to create this carbon-neutral Bitcoin marketplace. So each Bitcoin created on Terra Pool is carbon neutral. We believe that financial, different types of financial institutions would have the option to be able to purchase that, would do so, and would do so at a premium. And with our trust, the business model is twofold: custody, so assets under custody, there are fees, and then fees anytime that the Bitcoin is sent. And those transactions, in turn, would go through our pool. And we see this as a very large opportunity. Right now, Canada only has one qualified custodian. It's our goal to be the second. So let's go a little deeper into each of these, into Core, our data center. Right now, it's a 60-megawatt data center with an 85-megawatt substation. That substation we own.
So as we've talked about on our earnings call, as we look to supporting AI applications, which we believe our transmission infrastructure supports, what we'll need, the next step would be, is to add additional infrastructure to our substation to create redundancy there. And then from there, we could look at the distribution infrastructure that would be needed to support AI colocation. And we have quite a large lot, 33 acres, so there's definitely room for us to grow on that lot. In terms of our hash rate, we've kind of been at this one exahash level for a while now. With energizing our distribution line with the miners that we recently purchased, our goal is to get to one point seven exahash as we exit this quarter, and a longer-term goal as we look out next year to get to three exahash.
Along with that, as you look to investability of the Bitcoin mining sector, post-halving, all miners are focused on efficiency, and we believe it's table stakes to be these kinds of numbers, where exiting this quarter, our goal is to be at twenty-three joules a terahash. So joules is energy, terahash is compute. If you use less energy for amount of compute, that's better. So getting this number down is extremely important. And as we look out, next year, as we add capacity, our blended efficiency, our goal is to be in the neighborhood of twenty joules a terahash. As we look further out, we know that Bitcoin mining industry is talking about getting below ten joules a terahash.
In terms of how we're planning our capital build-outs, we very much want to do things in a stepwise fashion, so as we build new capacity, our overall blended fleet efficiency continues to, that number continues to decline. Now, as we look to the next generation of Bitcoin mining, we're really looking at an important industry transition, and this is to what is generically called direct liquid cooling. You may have heard in the AI sector, the companies for the NVIDIA next-generation Blackwell chips are a lot of those systems are gonna utilize direct liquid cooling. And if you look over here on the slide, on the bottom left, you'll see these big hunks of aluminum. So these are actually heat sinks. They're in the industry, they're called active heat sinks.
'Cause what's active about them, instead of just dissipating heat through air, just having fan blow on them, there's actually water or, in this case, the way the industry delivers to the Bitcoin miners are these large totes, these thousand-liter totes of purified water and glycol mix. They go through the pipes inside those heat sinks, and they help actively draw the heat from the chips directly. Those heat sinks, in turn are inside of these miners. These are miners from Bitmain and MicroBT, which are the two largest providers of Bitcoin mining equipment and really the leaders in hydro. And unlike AI, Bitcoin mining has been using hydro now for a couple of years. So this is fairly mainstream technology, where Bitcoin mining as a type of high-performance computing is actually leading the way.
We hesitated to use this because over the last couple of years, it's really been very new. What's different now is if you look on the far right, you see essentially turnkey solutions for the containers, where essentially all the equipment necessary to operate the miners is now available off the shelf. With those, they're paired with what's called the dry coolers. See the diagram on the right, which is provided by a company that's partnered with MicroBT, that the water, the hot water flows into the dry coolers, and the heat is dissipated, comes back in, and it's circulated as a closed-loop system. It's just done in a very efficient way. Now, with this, we intend to deploy 12 megawatts of hydro in our next major build-out.
We expect to have this deployed by early next calendar year. If you just do the math and kind of look at you take the number of megawatts and divide it by the efficiency number, which in the market, we said on our earnings call as an example, where the sweet spot is right now is around 16 Joules per terahash. You just take 12 divided by 16, and that is about 0.75 exahash. That's the shorthand way to figure out how much with the megawatts and efficiency, how much compute you get from that. Now, we look at our Core +. We mention, we talk about ourselves as a company as being vertically integrated. The vertical integration is, think of Bitcoin mining as this foundational layer for the company.
On top of that is our Bitcoin software infrastructure. Centerpiece of that is our pool, and along with other pieces of software to really complement the pool. The pool operates, essentially brings together the hash rate of multiple miners, and miners get paid out based on selling their hash rate to a formula that's called Full Pay Per Share. This is kind of the standard way that pools pay miners for their hash rate. Helm is a product on top of that, that enables Bitcoin miners not just to observe their fleet, but actually control their fleet. We've been using this software internally. Our goal is to be able to offer it to the market and have a version that we offer before the end of the year, and then there are other pieces.
We mentioned Petra is the technology for placing transactions from financial institutions and content creators on, ensuring that it's placed in a carbon neutral way, while Score is a technology to filter out bad actors. Breeze Wallet is a wallet technology we use for ordinals. Then on top of this are the digital asset applications. We're focusing right now on Systemic Trust. This is really what enables that ecosystem in terms of being able to hold digital assets and then be able to send them in a carbon neutral way. Every time the transaction happens, it can happen through Terra rPool, which means essentially a recurring revenue stream for our pool, and it ties everything together. We have partnerships with exchanges and then Blockseer Explorer. That's the original Blockseer product. Redoing that, and that has been historically a tool for law enforcement.
We're essentially modernizing that. A few words on Systemic Trust. Unique about Systemic, I mentioned our goal is to be Canada's second qualified custodian, but on top of that is to be able to send Bitcoin in a carbon neutral way. Right now, financial institutions don't have that choice. That is what Systemic offers. That's the unique capability it offers. And we have a really world-class team that we brought in.
Lawrence Truong, who's CEO of Binance Canada and Chief Compliance Officer at Tetra and Coinsquare, which right now are which are now part of WonderFi, and the rest of his team really bring in a lot of capabilities that to date, they've executed very well in terms of all the regulatory and groundwork, the real work to be able to bring in a great set of clients as we go out to next year and become a qualified custodian. The timeline has really been very compressed. Started late last year, really defining the platform at the beginning of the year. Over the last seven months or so, that software was executed.
We've really received approval for incorporation, and now we're focused on the steps towards becoming a fully qualified custodian. A few words on Terra Pool. A key benefit that Bitcoin miners on Terra Pool get is they get rewarded with carbon-neutral Bitcoin. We believe carbon-neutral Bitcoin can sell at a premium. Having that, certainly, we believe can offset fees, and along with that, there are other revenue opportunities as well. We announced that we've been working with PayPal. They have a system where Bitcoin that's sent from their platform is broadcasted to network, but there's a bounty attached to it that can only be unlocked by carbon-neutral pools. For us, when we would receive a transaction that PayPal would broadcast, we would be able to share that additional bounty with the other members on Terra Pool.
We expect to receive SOC 2 compliance soon, and there's additional functionality that we hope to be offering very soon. Helm, a s mentioned that's really for mine controllability, really maximizing fleet efficiency and uptime. Petra is not only the enabler for carbon-neutral transactions from financial institutions, but content creators. And these are some of the largest Ordinals that have been placed on the Bitcoin blockchain to date, and we've done that utilizing our pool. And these clients have come to us because, for that exact reason, we're able to perform those inscriptions in a carbon-neutral manner. Just a few words about our board. We're proud of our board, brings lots of diversity. Heather has worked with the company for many years. She knows our company. She knows our financials inside and out.
J.D. is one of you. He's an investor. He brings an investor's point of view in terms of the board, and John Place is a legal expert. With that, we believe we have a very strong governance model. Just a few words about our recent financials. Clearly, with addition of hash rate, from a financial performance point of view, we expect to be able to improve. If you look at the Bitcoin holdings, we've held it fairly steady over the last four quarters, but over time, what we've guided is that our Bitcoin, as a percentage of our total assets, we expect to decline. You as investors have ample choices to invest in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, and we don't intend to replicate that.
We said on our earnings call we would not use any capital raising for purposes of buying Bitcoin, and, but in terms of having a strong balance sheet, that is something that we intend to be a hallmark of the company even as we go forward. So with that, I'll take any questions. Yeah, I mean, in terms of the carbon. So the question is about just competition and being carbon neutral, and as far as the trust. Yeah, of course, there are others who want to become qualified custodians. It does require capital. That is something DMG has as far as a capital base, so that has been a barrier for others we're aware in the industry who want to go down that route.
I mean, the real competition are the U.S. large custodians, so, but we believe giving Canadian institutions a choice now, that just, that in itself helps fill a vacuum. In terms of the carbon-neutral ecosystem, no. We know that there's certainly been talk about it. We're also, in terms of filtering out bad actors, we know that others have also tried to do the same thing, and so we're being very careful how we talk about all of these things. For us, this is about giving choice. We believe that if financial institutions gravitate this way, that people, other companies will try to replicate at least pieces of this.
Part of the challenge is you have to build all of these pieces and then demonstrate that carbon-neutral Bitcoin can sell at a premium, and that's not simple, and we've been working at this for a while. A key change that we did was really upgrade our software team, so we could execute on some of these initiatives. The other, of course, was bringing in Lawrence and his team to be able to execute on becoming a qualified custodian. You need, with that, to have the wallet technology to be able to send Bitcoin directly to Terra Pool, and that's also getting the industry's support to do that is very non-trivial. So we've been working at this for a while with fits and starts, but we really feel we've addressed those key issues that have been lacking. Are there any other questions?
That's it, Steve.
Great.
That's great. Thank you.
Thank you very much.