BitMine mentioned on Monday it purchased 12,532 Ethereum within the week to October 11, its third small weekly buy in a row, taking the treasury to six,028,946 ETH, or 4.9% of the 122.1 million ETH in provide.
The acquisition adopted the 15,112 ETH BitMine added within the week to October 4, and the corporate purchased 17,362 ETH the week earlier than that.
BitMine Is Carried out Stacking
The corporate marked its ETH at $2,544 per token, utilizing Coinbase costs. At these ranges, its crypto, money, and fairness stakes complete $16.2 billion. Money and marketable securities got here to $612 million, down from $643 million per week earlier. BitMine’s launch offers no purpose for the money decline.
BitMine reported 5,067,309 ETH staked, or 84% of its ether. Chairman Tom Lee projected $336 million a yr in income from that staked ether, primarily based on a 2.61% seven-day yield. He mentioned that might rise to $400 million as soon as the entire firm’s ether is staked.
Lee mentioned in Could that BitMine had slowed its ETH accumulation to succeed in the 5% goal in late 2026 as an alternative of mid-July. He returned to that concentrate on in a video message whose transcript BitMine filed with the SEC on October 7. In that message, Lee mentioned BitMine constructed its place in 15 months, throughout a bear market.
“So we have to get about 100,000 extra ETH, and that’s about it,” Lee mentioned. He then mentioned BitMine is finished stacking whereas a bull market begins.
Monday’s launch nonetheless says BitMine has purchased ETH each week since its treasury technique started on June 30, 2025. The identical launch, in its observe on forward-looking statements, cites a administration assertion that the corporate is basically completed shopping for ETH.
Buyback Ended on August 17
In that very same message, Lee mentioned that BitMine began shopping for again its personal shares on July 14, when the corporate repurchased 21 million shares for $350 million and accomplished this system on August 17. Not one of the weekly updates BitMine has filed since then report a repurchase.
BitMine additionally raised cash this yr by means of its 9.5% perpetual most well-liked inventory, which trades as BMNP. BitMine had deliberate the popular inventory providing to fund extra Ethereum shopping for, amongst different makes use of. It offered 3.5 million shares at $80 every on June 10. These most well-liked shares final closed at $99.53, and Lee put their present yield at 9.56%.
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