Ethereum Treasury Expands as Tom Lee’s Bitmine Adds 99,000 ETH

• Bitmine now controls 3.37% of Ethereum supply, advancing its goal to reach 5% ownership.
• The firm holds over 4.06 million ETH, $1B cash, and total assets valued at $13.2 billion.
• BMNR ranks among the top traded U.S. stocks as investor interest in Ethereum treasuries grows.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies declared that it currently owns 3.37% of the circulating supply of Ethereum, a significant milestone towards its treasury plan. The company explained that position was the outcome of gradual accumulation and not a one-time deal. The management claimed that the milestone keeps Bitmine on schedule to achieve its claimed objective of owning 5% of all Ethereum, which it calls the Alchemy of 5%.

The update was report on Monday along with a general disclosure of the capital structure and crypto exposure of Bitmine. On Dec. 21, the company held 4,066,062 ETH. The tokens were estimated to be worth $2,991 each. Bitmine also reported an ownership of 193 Bitcoin and about $1.0 billion in cash.

Those data make Bitmine one of the best-capitalized crypto treasury companies in the market. The company reported that its crypto assets, cash and opportunistic investments add up to $13.2 billion. That value encompasses a social share of three-two million dollars in Eightco Holdings. It also demonstrates smaller digital assets which the firm classifies as the speculative or early stage opportunities.

Bitmine Leads Ethereum Treasuries as Accumulation Accelerates

The current circulation rate of Ethereum is estimated at 120.7 million tokens. According to that amount, the world’s largest known Ethereum treasury holder has become Bitmine. The company is general presently with greater ETH than any other corporate or institutional organization. Bitmine is ranked second in the general crypto treasury list, with Strategy Inc., with a bigger number of Bitcoin more than 671,000, holding the second rank.

The accumulation rate has increased manyfold in recent months. Bitmine has announced that it had added 98,852 ETH within the past one week. This urge took the aggregate holdings beyond its four-million-token mark. The company took just five and a half months, after officially implementing their Ethereum based treasury strategy to hit this threshold.

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According to Tom Lee, chairman of Fundstrat, the rate of accumulation is a sign of growing institutional interest in having exposure to Ethereum. He referred to Bitmine as a shift of traditional finance into blockchain infrastructure. Some of the areas that Ethereum has been proliferated in are given by Lee as tokenization, decentralized finance, and on-chain settlement. 

BMNR Ranks Among Most Traded U.S. Stocks

Bitmine also highlighted movements in the public equity markets. The company claimed to be among the leaders in the pace of growth in crypto treasury peers, specifically regarding the percentage increase in the crypto net asset value per share. It also cited high liquidity of the stock traded publicly. BMNR has averaged $1.7 billion in daily trading volume over the past five trading days.

This activity ranked BMNR 66th in the list of stocks with the highest trade in the United States. It places Wells Fargo in second position after that of the company. It also ranks BMNR over Chevron in number of listed U.S. equities, which are more than 5,700. Bitmine described the volume of trading as a sign of growing investor interest in Ethereum-based balance sheets.

Besides asset buildup, Ethereum-related infrastructure plans are being established by Bitmine. The company has been working on its Made in America Validator Network that is referred to as MAVAN. It is expected that the secure staking platform will be released at the start of 2026. 

Bitmine will hold its annual meeting of the stockholders on the 15th of January 2026 at the Wynn Las Vegas, whereby the company will take the next step towards its Ethereum plan.

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