Overview
- BitMine added roughly 317,000 ETH in the past week, boosting its treasury to 1.15 million tokens valued at nearly $5 billion.
- The company has financed its purchases with equity raises, including at-the-market offerings and a $1 billion buyback, and plans to stake ETH for protocol-level yield.
- SharpLink Gaming and other issuers have followed similar playbooks, pushing combined corporate ETH treasuries toward $14 billion.
- BitMine’s shares surged over 20 percent in recent sessions and averaged $2.2 billion in daily trading volume, ranking it among the most liquid U.S. stocks.
- Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and other commentators have cautioned that concentrated, leveraged corporate ETH positions could pose forced liquidation risks.