Bitmine’s ETH Accumulation: Is Ether Becoming the Next Corporate Treasury Asset?
Bitmine’s large ETH purchase strengthens the corporate treasury narrative around ether, staking income, liquidity and supply concentration.
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Bankless co-founder David Hoffman said he sold his ETH after concluding that the “ETH is money” thesis has largely played out, marking a notable shift from one of Ethereum’s most visible public advocates. Hoffman said he remains “massively bullish” on Ethereum as a network, but no longer sees a clear path for ETH, the asset, to receive a structural rerating from here. “For someone who built a career, community, identity, and business around Ethereum, this choice does not come lightly,” Hoffman wrote. “The ETH is Money thesis didn’t fail… it played out. Ethereum got the ETH price it deserves, and I don’t see ETH being rerated as an asset, higher or lower.” The argument is not that Ethereum has failed. Hoffman’s thesis is more uncomfortable for ETH holders: Ethereum may continue to succeed as infrastructure while only a marginal share of that success accrues to ETH itself. In his framing, the network has become one of crypto’s most important open-source systems, but its design choices in
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Bitmine has made its largest Ethereum (ETH) buy of the year during the recent market dip, reaffirming the firm’s bullish outlook on the leading altcoin and continued accumulation strategy. Related Reading: Bitcoin At A Crossroads: Two Key Levels Will Define BTC’s Next Major Move, Analyst Says Bitmine Ramps Up Ethereum Purchases On Tuesday, Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the world’s largest Ethereum treasury, announced its largest purchase since December 2025, having acquired roughly $238 million in ETH over the past week. In its latest update, the company shared it purchased 111,942 ETH during the recent market pullback, which sent the King of Altcoins below $2,200. Bitmine’s Chairman, Tom Lee, affirmed that last week’s correction represented “an attractive opportunity” to increase the company’s holdings. “We continue to expect a supercycle ahead for crypto and Ethereum, driven by the dual drivers of Wall Street tokenization and agentic-AI. And thus, we continue to steadily acquire ET