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Two wallets just pulled $155 million worth of Ethereum off exchanges in 48 hours.
ETH is trading at $2,056, up on the day and on the week, and the Fear and Greed Index has moved from 25 to 27. The price is recovering. But the more interesting story is happening on-chain.
New Wallets, Big Moves
On-chain tracker Lookonchain flagged both transactions. A freshly created wallet, address 0xfDe8, withdrew 11,629 ETH worth $23.71 million from Binance, while whale 0x8E34 pulled 63,324 ETH valued at $131.2 million from Kraken – both within the same two-day window.
The detail worth noting is the new wallet. When a whale creates a fresh address before withdrawing at this scale, cold storage is the most common explanation – though large OTC desk settlements can produce similar on-chain patterns.
Either way, ETH leaving exchanges in this volume reduces the liquid supply available for trading, and that shift in sell-side pressure tends to matter more than it looks in the moment.
The Company Trying to Own 5% of All Ethereum
BitMine Immersion Technologies, the largest corporate holder of Ethereum in the world, just recorded its biggest weekly token acquisition of 2026 – 60,976 ETH – bringing its total holdings to 4.535 million tokens, approximately 3.76% of the entire Ethereum supply.
The company currently holds $1.2 billion in cash with plans to keep deploying, and has over 3 million ETH already staked at roughly $6 billion in value. Its total assets have reached $10.3 billion. The stated goal is to reach 5% of all ETH in existence, an ambition the company has branded the “Alchemy of 5%.”
Chairman Tom Lee addressed current market conditions directly, describing crypto prices as being in “the late/final stages of the mini-crypto winter.”
Institutions Are Moving Too
The whale activity doesn’t exist in isolation. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a $38.69 million net inflow on March 2, led by BlackRock’s ETHA at $26.5 million. On March 10, inflows came in again at $12.6 million, driven primarily by Fidelity’s FETH.
These are not massive numbers individually, but consistent institutional inflows while retail sentiment sits in fear territory tend to matter more than they look in the moment.
Also Read: Solana Beat Ethereum on RWA Holders for the First Time. Here’s the Catch.
What It Means for ETH’s 2026 Outlook
Exchange outflows are accelerating, a major corporate treasury is actively deploying capital, and spot ETF inflows are returning while retail sentiment still sits in fear. How those two narratives resolve will likely define Ethereum’s trajectory through the rest of 2026.
The post Why Are Whales Buying Ethereum Right Now? $155M Left Exchanges in 48 Hours appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News
Two wallets just pulled $155 million worth of Ethereum off exchanges in 48 hours. ETH is trading at $2,056, up on the day and on the week, and the Fear and Greed Index has moved from 25 to 27. The price is recovering. But the more interesting story is happening on-chain. New Wallets, Big Moves …
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