BitMine ETH Holdings Hit 5.82 Million, About 4.8% of Supply

4.8% of a stated 120.7 million ETH supply. That is the stake Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) put on the chart as of Aug. 16, 2026 at 9:30 p.m. ET, when the company said it held 5,815,164 ETH after buying another 9,926 ETH in the week ended Aug. 16. The Alchemy of 5% target is still not reached.

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The holdings print that moved the story

The Aug. 17, 2026 release out of Norwalk, Conn., via PR Newswire and filed as an SEC exhibit, framed the treasury in hard numbers. BitMine valued the ETH bag at $1,893 per token on Coinbase pricing for that snapshot. It also listed 210 BTC plus $78 million in cash and marketable securities, with total crypto and cash holdings framed at $11.4 billion.

Chairman Thomas “Tom” Lee underscored the cadence: BitMine has bought ETH every week since the ETH treasury strategy began June 30, 2025, a stretch of about 14 months. This week’s 9,926 ETH add is another green check on that streak, not a one-off spike. The company is described as about 96% of the way to the Alchemy of 5% mark, which means the headline number is leadership-level size without crossing the round 5% line.

Candles, majors, and the Sunday read

Primary angle on this story is the bid sitting under ETH while a corporate wallet keeps cooking size. By Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 at 8:04 a.m. ET, CoinGecko showed ETH at $2,427.88, up 0.21% on the day, with BTC at $77,194 (+0.10%), SOL at $94.40 (+1.25%), XRP at $1.49 (-0.22%), and DOGE at $0.092537 (+3.07%). Those are context prints only. They do not rewrite the PR’s $1,893 Coinbase mark used to value the Aug. 16 bag.

Still, the market picture is clear enough for anyone watching candles: majors are chopping green at the margin, ETH is getting bid, and a listed name sitting on roughly 5.82 million ETH keeps the timeline focused on who is absorbing supply. Leadership of the move here is not a retail spike. It is steady weekly accumulation into a balance sheet that already owns nearly one of every twenty coins outstanding under the supply figure BitMine cited.

Staking math and Lee’s projections

As of Aug. 16, BitMine had 5,067,309 ETH staked, about 87% of holdings, described as $9.6 billion at the PR’s $1,893 print. Lee’s projections, labeled as projections only, put annualized yield near $287 million if the full stack were staked at a 2.61% 7-day yield, and about $250 million on the then-current staking level. That is yield talk bolted onto size, not a promise of path.

Cointelegraph covered the 5.82 million ETH holdings and staking angle on the same news day, keeping the community read locked on supply share and how much of the bag is already working.

What the numbers answer

Does BitMine own 5% of ETH? No. About 4.8% as of Aug. 16 against the 120.7 million supply figure in the release. How much did it buy that week? 9,926 ETH. How much is staked? 5,067,309 ETH. No later buys after Aug. 16 are claimed here, and the Alchemy of 5% goal remains unfinished business.

For high-energy community readers, the chart story is simple. A public company is still buying every week, the staked share is heavy, and ETH candles on the Sunday snapshot were green while alts mixed. The bag is large, the weekly add is real, and the 5% line is the unfinished sprint the market will keep watching.