BitMine would now need to spend just $482 million more to complete its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s total supply, though management is signaling that the final purchases will come more slowly.
On July 20, the company revealed that it held 5,777,468 ETH after adding 7,430 tokens during the previous week. The latest purchase cost about $14 million, making it one of BitMine’s smallest weekly allocations to ETH.
Based on BitMine’s estimate of 120.7 million ETH in circulation, a 5% position would equal 6.035 million tokens, leaving the company 257,532 ETH short of its target.
That remaining ETH would cost about $483.9 million at the $1,879 price BitMine used to value its holdings. The dollar requirement will fluctuate with ETH’s market price, while the number of tokens needed could also change as Ethereum’s supply expands or contracts.
The ETH purchase slowdown came as BitMine spent almost six times as much buying its own shares.
According to its press statement, BitMine repurchased about 5.5 million BMNR common shares during the week at an average price of $15.6156, putting the transaction’s value at roughly $85.9 million. Combined with its ether purchase, the company deployed close to $100 million across the two assets.
The repurchase was conducted under a previously authorized $4 billion program. Chairman Thomas “Tom” Lee said the smaller ETH purchase reflected the decision to allocate capital to BitMine’s stock, which management regarded as beneficial to shareholders.
The company nevertheless continued a record of buying ETH every week since starting the strategy on June 30, 2025.
The pace has dropped sharply from the preceding week, when BitMine bought 27,801 ETH. Its latest addition was about 73% smaller and followed purchases totaling nearly 70,000 ETH during the first two weekly reporting periods of July.
Still, this change is consistent with guidance Lee gave in his July chairman’s message. He said BitMine intended to approach the 5% level gradually and did not plan to accelerate beyond that concentration threshold.
Lee cited changes taking place around the Ethereum Foundation and said the company wanted to avoid building a position substantially larger than 5% of the network’s supply.
The target is therefore becoming a ceiling as well as a milestone. BitMine has completed about 95.7% of the required accumulation when measured by tokens, leaving less than one-quarter of a percentage point of Ethereum’s estimated supply to acquire.
The decision to repurchase shares also follows a period in which BitMine issued large amounts of equity to finance its ETH purchases.
The number of common shares outstanding has more than 579.7 million as of May 31, compared with 232.4 million at the end of August 2025, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing. That means the share count has more than doubled over the past year to fund its aggressive ETH purchases.
The 5.5 million-share repurchase reverses only a small portion of that expansion. Still, it indicates that management is now weighing the market price of BitMine stock against the value of adding more ether.
BitMine said its combined cryptocurrency, cash, marketable securities and strategic investments were valued at $11.5 billion as of July 19.
In addition to its ETH holdings, the company held 207 BTC, $385 million in cash and marketable securities, a $180 million investment in Beast Industries and a $58 million stake in Eightco Holdings.
The company remains the largest publicly disclosed corporate holder of ETH. Its digital-asset treasury ranks behind Strategy, which held 843,775 BTC valued at about $55 billion.
BitMine is seeking to generate recurring income from the ETH it has accumulated rather than relying entirely on increases in the token’s price.
The company revealed that it has staked 4,917,189 ETH, representing about 85% of its total ETH holdings. BitMine projected annualized staking revenue of about $247 million at its reported seven-day yield of 2.67%.
It said the annual reward could reach about $290 million after its ETH is fully deployed through the company’s MAVAN staking platform and external staking partners. Those estimates remain sensitive to ether prices, validator performance and changes in Ethereum’s staking yield.
Staking has already become BitMine’s main source of operating revenue. For the quarter ended May 31, staking and validation produced $45.7 million, or 98% of the company’s $46.5 million in total revenue.
However, the staking income did not translate into a quarterly profit. BitMine recorded a $92.1 million loss on derivative contracts and posted a net loss of $83.6 million for the period.
Those results show the two sides of BitMine’s Ethereum strategy as it closes in on its ownership target.
The treasury is producing revenue, but its financial performance remains exposed to token prices, staking yields, derivatives positions and the company’s decisions about issuing or repurchasing stock.
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