September 16, 2019

Nangeng Zhang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Canaan Inc.
30/F, Dicara Silver Tower
29 Jiefang East Road
Jianggan District, Hangzhou 310016
People's Republic of China

       Re: Canaan Inc.
           Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1
           Submitted August 30, 2019
           CIK No. 001780652

Dear Mr. Zhang:

      We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and have the
following
comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
may better understand your disclosure.

       Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and
either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration
statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances
or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.

      After reviewing the information you provide in response to these comments
and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may
have additional
comments.

Amendment No. 1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-1 submitted August
30, 2019

Revenue Recogntion, page 67

1.     We note from your response to prior comment 8 that management does not
believe any
       amount of revenue not yet collected meets the variable consideration
constraint at contract
       inception and that variable consideration should be included in the
price only to the extent
       that it has already been collected at the time of issuance of the
financial statements.
       However, on page 67 you indicate that revenues from product sales are
recorded at the net
       sales price (transaction price), which includes an estimation of
variable consideration that
       primarily results from implicit price concessions on credit sales and
that if the
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         consideration promised in a contract includes a variable amount, you
estimate the amount
         to which you expect to receive. Please clarify for us whether you only
recognize revenue
         during each period for the cash received from the customer. Tell us
whether revenue
         recognized upon transfer of the products in credit sales transactuions
include a minimum
         amount of variable consideration that is later updated at the end of
each reporting period
         pursuant to ASC 606-10-32-14. If you do not estimate variable
consideration at contract
         inception clarify how your accounting complies with ASC 606-10-32-8
and 9.
2.       For us to better understand your accounting treatment please walk us
through a typical
         credit sales transaction from inception through completion. Include a
discussion of the
         nature, timing, and amount of consideration promised by a customer,
how you determine
         the transaction price and how you estimate variable consideration at
the inception of a
         contract. Clarify the timing of recording revenue for the 50% down
payment and the
         subsequent payments.
3.       Please tell us how and when you plan to "prospectively" take into
account any historical
         data in determining the implicit price concessions at the time of
revenue recognition, as
         disclosed on page 68.
Internal Control over Financial Reporting, page 77

4.       Please revise the disclosure in the third paragraph of this section to
clarify which
         initiatives that you have taken and which initiatives you plan to take
to improve your
         internal control over financial reporting.
Competitive Landscape of the ASIC-based Bitcoin Mining Machine Industry, page
95

5.       Please disclose (i) and (ii) in your response to prior comment 17.
Intellectual Property, page 113

6.       Please reconcile your response to prior comment 19 with your
disclosures, such as on
         pages 101-05, regarding the technological superiority and attributes
of your product. If
         these attributes are not protected by the intellectual property you
hold, please revise state
         so directly and explain any material competitive risks.
PRC Policies and Regulations relating to the Bitcoin Industry, page 117

7.       Please expand your revisions in response to prior comment 21 to
clarify the impact on
         your customers and the indirect impact on you from the policies and
regulations to which
         you refer. Your current disclosure indicates that Bitcoin is
prohibited in the PRC, and we
         also note that most of your revenues are generated in the PRC. If
Bitcoin is prohibited, it
         is unclear how your operations comply with the PRC policies and
regulations you cite.

        You may contact Kristin Lochhead at 202-551-3664 or Brian Cascio,
Accounting Branch
Chief, at 202-551-3676 if you have questions regarding comments on the
financial statements
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and related matters. Please contact Thomas Jones at 202-551-3602 or Geoffrey
Kruczek, Special
Counsel, at 202-551-3641 with any other questions.



                                                         Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameNangeng Zhang
                                                         Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameCanaan Inc.
                                                         Office of Electronics
and Machinery
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cc:       Chris K.H. Lin, Esquire
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