Tom Lee isn’t slowing down, his led BitMine Immersion Technologies just executed its largest single ETH purchase of the year, supporting their price prediction for Ethereum. The firm added 111,942 ETH worth more than $237 million in a single week, pushing total holdings to 5,390,404 ETH, now valued at around $11.4 billion.
BITMINE JUST MADE ITS BIGGEST ETH BUY THIS YEAR
BitMine added nearly 112,000 $ETH last week, worth around $237 MILLION, its biggest ETH purchase of 2026.
The firm now holds nearly 5.4 MILLION ETH and is more than 88% of the way toward its goal of owning 5% of ETH’s… pic.twitter.com/SbGgnAKH38— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) May 26, 2026
BitMine now controls 4.4% of the circulating ETH supply, placing the firm 88% of the way toward its publicly stated 5% target. Lee, who serves as BitMine’s chairman, had recently signaled the firm might ease its purchase pace to avoid hitting 5% too fast, then turned around and bought the dip anyway.
“We continue to expect a supercycle ahead for crypto and Ethereum, driven by the dual drivers of Wall Street tokenization and agentic-AI,” he said in a statement.
Now, can institutional balance-sheet buying alone sustain a structural price floor?
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Ethereum Price Prediction: $5,500? $10,000? $15,000?
ETH is currently trading just above $2,100, a significant distance from Tom Lee’s $62K target. The current price level reflects a corrective pullback, not a trend reversal, at least by the technical structure.
Elliott Wave analysis, aligned with BitMine’s positioning, identifies key support at $2,000 with a deeper corrective floor around $1,800. Resistance stacks at $2,200, then $2,400, with a breakout path opening toward $2,600 on strong volume.
In a perfect world, ETH would reclaim $2,400 resistance on volume, triggers a run toward $2,700, then running towards the near-term target Lee has cited publicly, with medium-term projections extending to $7,000–$9,000.
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However, a sustained break below $1,800 would challenge the corrective thesis and could invite a retest of lower structural support, though BitMine’s balance-sheet buying appears to compress that downside window.
Shares of BitMine (BMNR) reflect the tension, up 3.3% on the day of the disclosure but down nearly 38% over six months. The stock’s underperformance versus ETH itself is, frankly, one of the stranger disconnects in this cycle.
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