Cryptocurrency mining agency Argo Blockchain has taken a troublesome determination to promote its flagship mining facility Helios with the intention to survive the continued bear market.

Argo Blockchain CEO Peter Wall formally announced on Dec. 28 a cope with Mike Novogratz’s crypto funding agency Galaxy Digital to promote Helios facility for $65 million. Argo has already been cashing its mined Bitcoin (BTC) to cut back the mortgage to Galaxy.

Moreover, Galaxy will even present Argo with a brand new $35 million tools finance mortgage to assist the troubled miner scale back its debt. “We’ve used the proceeds of that sale in a brand new Galaxy mortgage to repay the debt that we owed to NYDIG and a tiny bit to a different secured lender,” Wall famous.

The brand new transactions purpose to cut back Argo’s whole debt by $41 million, enhance liquidity and working construction, permitting the agency to proceed its mining operations, the CEO mentioned.

Wall famous that the deal was the “solely viable path ahead” by way of the bear market, amid stress from excessive vitality prices coupled with the low Bitcoin worth.

The CEO additionally emphasised that regardless of Argo promoting Helios, the agency has not offered any of its mining machines. “These are going to proceed to mine at Helios facility,” Wall mentioned, including that Argo has additionally signed an settlement to maintain working their mining machines at Helios. He said:

“Staying at Helios will even enable us to proceed to entry energy by way of the Texas grid and take part within the ancillary companies, that are supplied by Ercot.”

The deal comes simply six months after Argo formally launched Helios in Could 2022. Situated in Dickens County, Helios facility is the biggest Argo’s mining facility, supporting 200 megawatts (MW) of electrical energy. As compared, one other Argo’s facility, Baie Comeau, operates round 15 MW.

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The information comes amid Argo struggling to safe financing after failing to lift $27 million through subscription for extraordinary shares. In October, Argo mentioned that it was liable to closing on account of failing to lift new financing. In mid-December, Argo introduced that it was negotiating to promote its belongings and attempting to “have interaction in an tools financing transaction” with the intention to keep away from submitting for chapter.

Argodid not instantly reply to Cointelegraph’s request for remark.