Ethereum sits at just under $2,500, up a modest 1% on the day. Tom Lee, the chairman of the biggest Ethereum treasury company, is back in the news. He told Bankless this week that BitMine will not sell Ethereum out of financial necessity.
As of today, staking rewards on the company’s ETH stack run close to $300 million a year, against just $30–35 million in annual dividend obligations on its 9.5% Series A perpetual preferred stock. BitMine currently holds 5,846 million ETH, or 4.8% of the total supply, just 200,000 ETH shy of its 5% target.
*TOM LEE BOUGHT $80M ETH
Tom Lee’s Bitmine purchased ~$79.17M of ETH over the past week – their largest weekly purchase in over a month and a half.
Bitmine currently holds $14.72B of ETH, representing ~4.85% of the total ETH supply. Bitmine’s average purchase price is ~$3,400. pic.twitter.com/L7UYWcx9WU— Arkham (@arkham) August 24, 2026
Lee went further, suggesting that the target “may not be a cap” if enterprises begin treating ETH as a long-duration treasury asset. The comment itself landed against a backdrop of steady institutional accumulation and renewed ETF inflows that have kept ETH’s supply-demand picture tight.
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Can Ethereum Price Hold Its Range Amid Bitmine News?
ETH is trading at $2,480, with an intraday range between $2,460 and $2,530 in a band that shows consolidation with no clear short-term direction. Volume has stayed unremarkable, consistent with a market digesting institutional headlines.
Technically, near-term support sits in the $1,850–1,920 zone, aligned with the 20-, 50-, and 100-day EMAs, while resistance clusters around $1,970–2,052 and again near $2,120–2,140 at the 200-day EMA. ETH’s recent breakout from a symmetric triangle formed since early July is now being retested. It’s in a structure that often precedes continuation if support holds.
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Ethereum could pump even more with a clean hold above $2,140 that opens room toward the 2,600 zone already in play. Or, it could range-bound chop between $2,400–2,530 per Ethereum while the market absorbs the BitMine news.
However, a break below $1,900 invalidates the triangle thesis and points back toward $1,800. Worth watching either way as Ethereum’s next leg likely hinges on whether corporate holders like BitMine keep accumulating instead of distributing.
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Maxi Doge Targets Early Mover Upside as Ethereum Holders Sit Tight
If BitMine isn’t selling and ETH is consolidating in the high-$2,400s, large-cap holders are essentially locked into a slow grind. That’s fine for a $300 billion asset compounding staking yield. It’s less exciting if you’re looking for near-term multiples.
At Ethereum’s size, doubling requires hundreds of billions in fresh capital. That’s the gap presale plays like Maxi Doge ($MAXI) are built to exploit.
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Maxi Doge is an ERC-20 meme token built around a 240-lb dog mascot channeling “1000x leverage” trading culture, complete with holder-only trading competitions and leaderboard rewards.
The presale has raised $4.8 million at a current price of $0.0002835, with a huge 65% APY staking reward already live. A dedicated Maxi Fund treasury backs liquidity and partnerships.
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