Etherealize Raises $40m To Market ETH, Firms Add $1.2b This Week

Etherealize, a business that aims to make ETH become more popular in institutional finance, has $40 million in a Series A fundraising round. Electric Capital and Paradigm, two crypto venture capital firms, led the investment. It builds on past support from the ETH Foundation and co-founder Vitalik Buterin. 

, which begined in January 2025, aims to connect ETH’s blockchain capabilities with Wall Street’s financial infrastructure. The funds will assist build the infrastructure for private trading, settlement platforms, and tokenised fixed-income markets. This will make ETH a key part of the modern financial system.

Danny Ryan, a co-founder and former researcher at the Foundation, called the raise the beginning of an “Institutional Merge,” which will improve traditional finance with ETH’s secure, open, and globally accessible technology. The beginup wants to improve zero-knowledge privacy systems and settlement engines to fulfill the needs of businesses for secure and quick transactions.

Increase in Corporate ETH Holdings

This week, public companies around the world added $1.2 billion worth of Ether (ETH) to their treasuries. This shows that companies are becoming more confident in ETH. The Ether Machine, a crypto treasury firm that is getting ready to go public, made the most significant purchase with 150,000 ETH worth $654 million, according to Strategic ETH Reserve statistics. 

Immersion Technologies, the company with the most ETH, bought another 150,000 ETH on Wednesday, worth $65 million. Sharplink Gaming and Yunfeng Financial, which is based in Hong Kong, both bought ETH, spending $176 million and $44 million, respectively.

This buildup has brought Ether platform reserves down to 17.4 million ETH, the lowest level in three years. This has made the supply tighter as demand from and corporate treasuries surges. ETH is currently worth about $4,400, which is 1.8% more than it was yesterday but 11.5% less than its top of $4,950 in late August.

ETH’s Future Looks Bright

The combination of institutional purchaseing and possible rate reduction by the Federal Reserve has made people more hopeful about the future of ETH’s price.

Nick Forster, who begined the crypto options platform Derive, there is a 44% possibility that ETH will reach $6,000 by the end of the year and a 30% chance that it will do so by October. Forster says that companies that acquire ETH presently own around 4% of the token supply. This number could climb to 6-10% by the end of the year, which would have a significant effect on prices.

Etherealize’s work, together with the growth of corporate accumulation, shows how significant ETH is becoming in institutional finance. ETH is about to become the backbone for tokenised assets and as Wall Street begins to use blockchain technology.