Overview
- The $425 million private investment in public equity is led by Electric Capital, Polychain, GSR and founders of Lido, Frax and EigenLayer and is slated to close by August 1.
- Upon closing, Nasdaq-listed 180 Life Sciences will rebrand as ETHZilla and repurpose its balance sheet around ether.
- ETHZilla intends to use the bulk of proceeds to accumulate ether as its primary treasury asset in pursuit of higher yields.
- Electric Capital will serve as external asset manager, deploying on-chain yield generation across staking, lending and liquidity provision with strategic input from a newly formed DeFi Council.
- The move reflects a rising wave of corporate Ethereum adoption, with public companies and DeFi treasuries now holding roughly $9.5 billion in ether, or about 2 percent of circulating supply.