Bitmine fait un pas de géant avec 827 008 ETH en staking sur Ethereum

Bitmine vient de franchir un cap monumental dans l'univers du staking Ethereum. Avec désormais 827 008 ETH immobilisés, la plateforme s'impose comme un acteur majeur du secteur.

Une croissance qui interroge : stratégie visionnaire ou simple suivi de tendance ? Dans un marché où les promesses de rendement fleurissent aussi vite qu'elles fanent, Bitmine joue sa crédibilité à hauteur de ces 827 008 ETH.

De quoi faire pâlir les banques traditionnelles - toujours à l'ère des livrets A à 0,5%. Le staking, nouveau Graal de la finance décentralisée ? Bitmine semble en tout cas y croire dur comme fer.

BitMine boosts Ethereum holdings ahead of MAVAN launch

Bitmine (@BitMNR) has further staked 19,200 $ETH, worth $60.85M

In total, they have staked 827,008 $ETH, valued at $2.62Bhttps://t.co/1vbYSuGDkR pic.twitter.com/PIDeASeDuJ

— Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens) January 8, 2026

On Monday, Bitmine announced that it had purchased 32,977 eth tokens, valued at $105.3 million. The acquisition marked the lowest weekly buy since the company began its treasury strategy last week. Last month, BitMine bought an average of 96,007 Ethereum tokens per week, with a range of 44,463 to 138,452.

As of January 4, Bitmine had staked 659,219 Ethereum, equivalent to approximately $2.1 billion in value. According to Lee, the company aims to increase its Ethereum holdings this year with the launch of its own Made in America Validator Network (MAVAN), which is scheduled to go live later this year.

In a statement, Tom Lee announced that when MAVAN and its staking partners completely stake Bitmine’s ETH, the annual ETH staking fee will be $374 million (using a 2.81% CESR), or more than $1 million per day. 

The Nasdaq-listed company now holds 4,143,502 Ethereum tokens, which represent 3.43% of the total Ethereum supply. The ETH-focused company has stated its objective to acquire 5% of the Ethereum supply. The corporation currently holds $14.2 billion in cash and cryptocurrency, including $915 million in cash.

Last week, Lee announced a bullish move for ETH by predicting that the price of Ethereum would rise to $250,000 if the price of bitcoin eventually reaches $1 million.

“We continue to make progress on our staking solution known as The Made in America Validator Network (MAVAN). This will be the ‘best-in-class’ solution offering secure staking infrastructure and will be deployed in early calendar 2026.”

-Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine.

On-chain data from CoinMarketCap show that Ethereum’s price has been rising in 2026, increasing by 8.8% over the last seven days. Its current range is still about a 36.31% decline from its all-time high of around $4,953.73 established in the previous year. At the time of writing, ETH was trading at $3,153.41, a 1.6% increase from the last Month.

BitMine rallies as shareholders consider massive share increase

Last week, BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. (BMNR) increased 9.29% as investors reacted to a barrage of information regarding the company’s aggressive expansion goals and proxy campaign. 

The stock has experienced significant trading and options activity, with call contracts surpassing puts, and implied volatility elevated in anticipation of the company’s January 14 earnings announcement and necessary shareholder votes.

As Cryptopolitan reported on January 3, BitMine’s drive to drastically increase its authorized share count from 500 million to 50 billion led the significant trading and options activity. 

Chairman Tom Lee initiated an intense campaign that included presentations, films, and social media outreach to urge shareholders to adopt the charter revision at the next annual meeting in Las Vegas. The Bitmine management argued that a larger share pool is necessary to finance future capital markets activity, pursue opportunistic mergers and acquisitions, and maintain the possibility of stock splits if the share price rises.

Bitmine’s proposal is closely related to Bitmine’s endeavor to construct a sizable Ethereum treasury by acquiring 5% of the world’s ETH supply.

According to Google Finance, BitMine shares closed at $30.36, down 6.09% after dropping $1.97 from the previous close of $32.33. The stock traded between $30.23 and $31.89. BMNR gained $0.19 during after-hours trading, rising 0.63% to $30.55.

BitMine began staking some of its stock in December.

ETF providers are also quickening this trend by incorporating staking into their products. For example, Grayscale, a digital asset management firm, recently announced that it is offering staking benefits to its shareholders.

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