Bitmine Adds 10,399 Ethereum (ETH) to Corporate Treasury

Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 10,399 Ethereum (ETH) to its corporate treasury over the past week, lifting its total holdings to 5,797,813 tokens and moving the company closer to its stated goal of controlling 5% of the network's supply. The disclosure, made through the company's latest investor update on Aug. 3, confirms that the Ethereum treasury strategy — launched on June 30 of last year — has now run through more than twelve consecutive months of weekly purchases. The newest tranche follows a 9,946-token acquisition the prior week, meaning Bitmine has absorbed more than 20,000 ETH in roughly two weeks. At the company's reference price near $1,880, the position is worth approximately $10.9 billion. The accumulated stack now represents roughly 4.8% of Ethereum's ~120.7 million circulating supply, putting the firm at about 96% of its 5% target. Each weekly purchase removes liquid tokens from an already thin float, a dynamic treasury operators argue strengthens their proportional claim on the network. Reaching the full 5% threshold would deepen a concentration already unmatched among Ethereum-focused corporate treasuries. As the largest altcoin by market capitalization after Bitcoin, Ethereum has become the centerpiece of a fast-growing corporate-treasury category, and Bitmine ranks as the biggest single holder in that cohort. Chairman Tom Lee framed the continued buying against Ethereum's recent relative strength, noting that ETH topped the Nasdaq 100 by 25% in July — the widest such margin since July 2025. Lee also pointed to the asset's prior climb from $2,375 to $4,057 over the second half of that year as evidence of strengthening crypto fundamentals, while cautioning that such a move — measured from well below the all-time high — does not guarantee a repeat. The steady accumulation underscores how public companies keep buying through volatility rather than trading around it.

The accumulation is paired with an aggressive yield and capital-return program. Bitmine reported that 4,917,189 ETH — nearly 85% of its holdings — is now staked, a position valued around $9.2 billion at the company's reference price. Management projects roughly $247 million in annualized staking revenue at current validator yields, and Chairman Tom Lee said the firm is the largest corporate staker of Ethereum in the world; if the entire treasury were routed through its MAVAN validator network at the recent 7-day yield of 2.67%, annual rewards could approach $291 million. The company is also expanding MAVAN — short for Made in America VAlidator Network — as an institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform. Alongside staking, Bitmine repurchased 4.5 million of its own common shares last week under a $4 billion buyback authorization, the third consecutive week of repurchases. That brings cumulative buybacks past 16.1 million shares since the program accelerated last month — what Lee described as the largest share-repurchase effort among digital-asset treasury companies. Across the balance sheet, total holdings spanning digital assets, cash, marketable securities, and so-called moonshot investments amount to about $11.3 billion. Beyond Ethereum, the portfolio includes 209 Bitcoin, an estimated $180 million stake in Beast Industries, a $61 million position in Eightco Holdings — viewed as an indirect vehicle for OpenAI exposure — and $173 million in cash and marketable securities. The company ranks as the second-largest crypto treasury behind Strategy. Yet the equity has struggled: BMNR traded near $17.06 on Aug. 3, down about 1.3%, as investors weighed an estimated unrealized loss of roughly $8.8 billion on the Ethereum position amid the broader crypto bear market. Lee argued that periods of strong monthly ETH performance against the Invesco QQQ Trust have historically preceded BMNR outperforming the token the following month, though that remains an internal observation rather than a guarantee. Management also pointed to the GENIUS Act — the new federal framework governing payment stablecoins — and the SEC's Project Crypto initiative as structural tailwinds for the strategy.

Bitmine also disclosed institutional backing from a group of prominent investors, naming Cathie Wood, Founders Fund, Pantera, Kraken, Digital Currency Group, and Galaxy Digital as supporters of its treasury strategy. The list spans crypto-native venture funds, a major exchange, and crossover asset managers, signaling broad institutional conviction behind the company's accumulation-and-staking model. Management framed the endorsements alongside its push to scale MAVAN's institutional adoption and close the remaining gap to its 5% supply target, suggesting the firm views high-profile investor alignment as a competitive moat in the rapidly growing corporate-treasury category.

Despite the sustained institutional accumulation, shorter-term market sentiment remains tilted bearish. A prediction market currently prices roughly 75% odds that Ethereum falls to $1,500 before climbing to $3,000, indicating that traders see further downside as the more likely near-term scenario even as the token has gained approximately 6% over the past 30 days and holds a market capitalization near $255 billion. The gap between prediction-market positioning and the aggressive buying by corporate treasuries like Bitmine underscores a persistent tension: long-duration holders continue absorbing supply while shorter-horizon participants hedge against additional drawdowns.

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