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BitMine Immersion's Ether Holdings Top $6.6B, Stock Slides 7% Alongside ETH's Tumble
The Tom Lee-led firm increased its ether stash to 1.5 million tokens last week, up from 1.15 million.
Updated Aug 18, 2025, 2:23 p.m. Published Aug 18, 2025, 2:23 p.m.
What to know:
- BitMine's ETH holdings surpassed 1.5 million ETH worth more than $6 billion.
- The stock's lower by another 7% as ether continued to quickly pull back from its near record-high last wee.
- Rival ETH treasury company SharpLink (SBET) as well as Solana-focused names Upexi (UPXI), DeFi Development (DFDV) also traded lower.
BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the listed firm with a digital asset treasury strategy focusing on Ethereum and led by Fundstrat's Tom Lee, said in a Monday SEC filing that its holdings surpassed 1.5 million ether worth roughly $6.6 billion.
With the latest purchases, it has become the second largest public corporate crypto owner, topping miner MARA Holdings (MARA) and trailing only the original treasury play Strategy (MSTR), which owns $72 billion in bitcoin , per Bitcointreasuries.net. Strategy or MARA, of course, are holders of bitcoin, while BMNR is an ETH treasury play.
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BMNR was 7% lower Monday to $54 alongside a continuing pullback in ETH, which fell below $4,300, down 5% over the past 24 hours. It was less than one week ago when ether nearly touched $4,800 and was within a few dollars of a record high.
Other digital asset treasury companies also traded lower, extending their Friday plunge. ETH-focused SharpLink Gaming (SBET) was down 3%, while Solana-centric firms DeFi Development (DFDV) and Upexi (UPXI) were 9% and 6% lower, respectively.
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