Ethereum to $30K? Tom Lee Predicts Corporate Treasury Buying Could Send ETH Soaring

Sat Jul 19 2025
Tom Lee predicts Ethereum could hit $30,000 as companies like BitMine, SharpLink, and Bit Digital aggressively accumulate ETH for their treasuries, mimicking the MicroStrategy Bitcoin playbook.

Ethereum to 30K? Tom Lee Thinks Corporate Treasuries Could Take It There

MicroStrategy walked so ETH could fly. BitMine, SharpLink, and Bit Digital are loading up—and Tom Lee says this is just the beginning.


📊 Quick Hits

  • 💰 Target ETH price: 30,000–80,000
  • 🧠 Strategy: Corporate treasury ETH stacking
  • 🪙 BitMine, SharpLink, and Bit Digital now hold 682,000+ ETH
  • 🛠 Tactics: Convertible notes, stock issuance, staked yield
  • 🚀 ETH today: 3,600 — 8x upside, if Lee is right

🧠 The Thesis: Ethereum Is Next

Tom Lee, longtime crypto strategist and founder of BitMine Immersion, just dropped a bold thesis: Ethereum could hit 30K—or more—if companies replicate MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin treasury model. And they’re already doing it.

He points to one key precedent: MicroStrategy’s stock exploded 35x from 13 to 455 by leveraging a simple loop—raise cash, buy BTC, repeat. ETH, he argues, has even better mechanics.


🧮 MicroStrategy 2.0 — But Make It Ethereum

In MicroStrategy’s case, the majority of the stock's gain wasn’t from Bitcoin itself (which “only” 10x’d), but from clever capital plays:

  • Issuing stock at a premium
  • Buying BTC on balance sheet
  • Creating more BTC per share than market movement alone could provide

Now, ETH has entered the chat.

Lee argues Ethereum is even more reflexive because:

  • ⚡️ Higher volatility = lower borrowing costs (when structured right)
  • 📈 Treasuries can use convertibles/preferreds to raise ETH-buying capital
  • 💸 ETH staking = native yield that compounds the value

💼 Meet the New ETH Mega-Buyers

🔹 BitMine Immersion Technologies

  • Raised 250M private
  • Holds 300,000+ ETH already
  • Wants to stake 5% of all ETH in circulation
  • Lee is founder. Yes, he's backing his own thesis—hard.
  • Chaired by ETH co-founder Joseph Lubin
  • Upped capital raise cap from 1B → 6B
  • Staked 280,000 ETH for yield
  • ETH strategy fully public

🔹 Bit Digital

  • NASDAQ-listed miner
  • Holds 100,000 ETH
  • Positioning as ETH-native MicroStrategy

Together, these 3 companies control 682,000 ETH — half a percent of circulating supply — and they’re still raising.


📉 Stock Price Up = ETH Holdings Up = Stock Price Up

This is Lee’s “reflexive loop” theory in action:

  1. Treasury buys ETH
  2. Market rewards it with higher stock price
  3. Company uses stock to raise more capital
  4. Buys more ETH
  5. Repeat

If MicroStrategy could do it over four years, ETH-heavy treasuries are now doing it in weeks.


🌎 The Bigger Picture

  • 🪙 ETH’s scarcity + staking = rocket fuel for long-term value
  • 🏦 Treasuries buying ETH = mainstream capital on-chain
  • 🔁 Reflexive loops could create positive feedback explosions

Crypto analyst @DCInvestor says it best:

“ETH could go from 3,600 to 30,000… even 80,000.”

This isn’t about hype. It’s math, velocity, and conviction.


TL;DR

Tom Lee says Ethereum could reach 30K+ if corporate treasuries follow the MicroStrategy playbook—raise capital, buy ETH, and loop. Companies like BitMine, SharpLink, and Bit Digital have already stacked 682K ETH, and are raising billions more to keep going. With volatility as leverage and staking as yield, ETH becomes not just a smart bet—but a treasury asset with explosive upside. Reflexivity is the new utility.

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