Peter Thiel, the billionaire enterprise capitalist who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Applied sciences, and his Founders Fund have fully divested from ETHZilla, a agency that holds Ethereum as its core treasury asset, in accordance with a brand new SEC submitting.
Thiel reported buying a 7.5% stake in ETHZilla final August. The investor group additionally disclosed holding over 9% of BitMine Immersion, the most important Ethereum treasury agency.
The traders bought their total stake in ETHZilla as of Dec. 31, 2025. Their departure marks a reversal from an earlier place that had been seen as a vote of confidence in company Ethereum methods.
ETHZilla’s inventory fell 5% in after-hours buying and selling and has declined 28% because the begin of the yr, per Yahoo Finance.
Previously generally known as 180 Life Sciences Corp, ETHZilla pivoted from biotechnology to an Ethereum-focused treasury mannequin in mid-2024. It lately pivoted once more, launching ETHZilla Aerospace to supply tokenized fairness in leased jet engines.
The corporate presently holds 69,802 ETH value about $140 million, putting it among the many prime 10 public company holders of Ethereum.
