BitMine Stack Nears Alchemy Goal as ETH Candles Stay Calm

Where ether printed only modest green candles into the weekend, BitMine Immersion Technologies kept expanding a treasury that now stands near 4.8 percent of supply and still sits below the company’s Alchemy of 5% objective.

On Aug. 17, 2026, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) said through PR Newswire and an SEC exhibit that as of Aug. 16 at 9:30 p.m. ET it held 5,815,164 ETH, about 4.8% of a stated 120.7 million ETH supply, after purchasing 9,926 ETH in the week ended Aug. 16. The Alchemy of 5% target was not reached. The release valued those ETH holdings at $1,893 per token on Coinbase pricing for that snapshot, and also listed 210 BTC plus $78 million in cash and marketable securities, with total crypto and cash holdings framed at $11.4 billion.

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Lee’s cadence on the weekly buys

Chairman Thomas “Tom” Lee gave the update its clearest founder voice. Lee said Bitmine has bought ETH every week since the ETH treasury strategy began on June 30, 2025, a stretch of about 14 months of uninterrupted accumulation. That rhythm, not a single outsized print, is what lifted the stack to 5.82 million tokens. The latest weekly add of 9,926 ETH fits the same pattern rather than marking a sudden shift in pace.

Lee’s framing stays calm and process-driven. The company is measuring progress against the Alchemy of 5% line, and the Aug. 16 figures leave BitMine short of that mark even after months of steady spot buying. The story on the balance sheet is consistency, not a sprint across the finish.

Staking scale and yield projections

As of the same Aug. 16 cutoff, BitMine had 5,067,309 ETH staked, about 87% of its holdings and described as $9.6 billion at the PR’s $1,893 reference price. Lee projected about $287 million annualized if the full position were staked at a 2.61% seven-day yield, and about $250 million on then-current staking levels. Those figures are projections tied to the stated yield assumption, not guaranteed cash flows.

Cointelegraph covered the holdings size and the staking angle on the day of the release, keeping the focus on how much of the stack is already productive inside the network rather than on short-term mark-to-market swings.

Price context on the chart

Primary angle for this story is still the market and the candles around the filing window. Assignment-supplied CoinGecko context for Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 at 8:04 a.m. ET 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 prints are weekend context only. They do not reprice the company’s Aug. 16 Coinbase reference of $1,893 used inside the PR and SEC exhibit.

Majors were chopping in a tight band rather than ripping or nuking. Against that calm chart, BitMine’s weekly adds read as balance-sheet discipline instead of chase buying into a blow-off. Spot accumulation over fourteen months sits beside a market that, on the latest snapshot, was barely green.

What the 4.8% figure does and does not say

BitMine does not own 5% of ETH. As of Aug. 16 it held about 4.8% of the 120.7 million supply cited in the release. No purchases after that date are part of this story. The FAQ points are straightforward: the weekly buy was 9,926 ETH, and staked supply stood at 5,067,309 ETH.

The founder voice from Lee keeps the narrative on process. Weekly buys since late June 2025, a large majority of the stack already staked, and a public target that remains unmet. On a weekend when ether candles stayed quiet, that is the signal the filing actually carries.