BitMine Nears 4.5% Ethereum Supply Share Following $238M Buy

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 ETH, with Bitmine now owning nearly 5.4 million ETH tokens,” stated Lee. Now, the company’s crypto and cash holdings have reached 12.3 billion at current prices, comprised of 5,390,404 ETH at 2,134 per token, 203 Bitcoin (BTC), a 200 million stake in Beast Industries, an 95 million stake in Eightco Holdings as part of its “Moonshots” initiative, and total cash worth 444 million. The latest buy has pushed BitMine’s Ethereum holdings closer to its goal of controlling 5 of ETH’s 120.7 million supply, reaching 4.47 of the supply, 89 of its goal, in just 11 months. As a result, “Bitmine is expected to reach the ‘alchemy of 5’ sometime in 2026,” the chairman affirmed. In addition, the company revealed that 4,712,917 ETH of its holdings, worth about 10.1 billion, have been staked. Lee also shared that, “At scale (when Bitmine’s ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners), the projected ETH staking reward is 276 million annually (using 2.75 7-day BMNR yield).” Analysts Eye 1,850 Support Recently, Lee suggested that Ethereum could rally toward new highs by the end of the year, based on his belief that the “crypto winter is over” and a recovery rally could take place over the coming months. However, some market observers have warned that a long-term bullish rally is not likely this year. In an X post, analyst Ali Martinez highlighted that ETH has been trading within a broad, multi-year range since 2021. After falling back to the channel’s lower half earlier this year, the altcoin recently faced a “clean rejection at the mid-range of this structure,” which coincided with a rejection from the 200-week Simple Moving Average (SMA), signaling weakness. Related Reading: XRP, ETH, SOL, LINK Look Cheap—The Catalysts That Could Drive The Next Leg Up As the price fails to reclaim this area, the analyst noted that the most critical level to hold remains 1,850, explaining that a weekly close below this support would likely trigger downside acceleration. He suggested that this could open a great opportunity for investors, based on the MVRV Pricing Band: Right now, the highly watched 0.8 MVRV Pricing Band is sitting right around 1,850. Historically, whenever Ethereum drops below the 0.8 MVRV band, the move is not sustained for very long. () History shows that this exact zone represents a high-probability macro accumulation window that builds the ultimate foundation for the next major bull market. Lastly, he affirmed that to invalidate the bearish scenario, ETH would need two clear triggers: a reclaim of the 200-week SMA, located around 2,500, and a clean break above the 50-week SMA around 3,100. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com