50k ETH, ultimately sold down to zero. The corporate crypto treasury business has finally had someone complete the negative case study.
FG Nexus was still making major bets on Ethereum last year, holding more than 50,000 ETH at its peak; the latest disclosure shows that, as of June 30, the company had fully liquidated its digital assets.
Even more painful are the two figures: first-half ETH staking revenue was only $144k, while losses from the now-terminated digital asset business reached $50k, including approximately $144k in ETH-related losses.
In one sentence: staking earns pocket change, while a retreat in the token’s price eats up the lion’s share.
The company is now even preparing to redirect its capital into real estate and affordable housing. Last year it was still talking about an “ETH treasury”; this year it has started selling crypto to buy property.
But I don’t think this should simply be understood as “ETH is finished.” What it truly exposes is the structure of corporate crypto treasuries: in a bull market, rising token prices lead to a stock premium, which leads to financing and further token purchases, making it look like a perpetual-motion machine; once token prices undergo a sustained pullback, a stock discount, financing costs, and asset losses may all emerge at once, reversing the cycle.
So what is really worth watching is not which company announces that it will “buy another 10k ETH,” but whether it has the ability to weather an entire bear market.
ETH is currently around $1,625. In the short term, I’m watching support around $1,600 first; $1,650–$1,700 is the resistance zone that needs to be reclaimed. If it holds above $1,700, I will turn significantly more bullish; if it breaks below $1,600 and fails to recover promptly, the short-term outlook will remain weak.
The real test of corporate crypto hoarding has never been how much companies dare to buy in a bull market, but whether they can refrain from selling when they are losing money. $ETH #ETH