Ethereum Soars Past $3,400: Market Cap Rockets to $422.7B in 5% Surge
Ethereum flexes its dominance as its valuation blasts past the $420 billion mark—because apparently, traditional finance wasn’t volatile enough.
Price pumps, market cap swells—while Wall Street still tries to figure out what a 'smart contract' is.
No slowdown in sight. The ETH train’s leaving the station—again. All aboard or get left holding fiat.
Institutions stack Ether and treat it like gold
Rachael Lucas, a crypto analyst at BTC Markets, said ethereum is no longer being treated like a trading token. “Ethereum is increasingly being seen as a long-term institutional asset, not just a trading vehicle,” Rachael said. She pointed out that the ETFs now hold about 4% of Ethereum’s total market cap, a number that spells just how much capital is pouring in.
She didn’t stop there. “Combine that with more than US$2.5B in daily trading volume, bullish chart setups, and capital rotation out of bitcoin, and you’ve got a breakout that’s being driven by both fundamentals and sentiment,” Rachael added.
The second-largest crypto is also being stockpiled on-chain. SharpLink Gaming, which is backed by Consensys, has now overtaken the Ethereum Foundation as the largest known ETH holder. As of July 15, it controls 280,706 ETH, and it added another 20,279 ETH on Wednesday. The data was confirmed by Arkham. This is an entity moving tens of millions of dollars in ETH like it’s a normal Wednesday.
Gamesquare pours over $90 million into Ethereum
Elsewhere, GameSquare Holdings priced a major underwritten public offering of 46,666,667 shares at $1.50 each, raising $70 million in gross proceeds before costs. The company said it plans to use the bulk of this raise to expand its Ethereum position. That’s built into the company’s roadmap through its alliance with Dialectic, a crypto-focused capital management and yield firm.
Justin Kenna, GameSquare’s CEO, made it clear. “This raise marks a pivotal milestone for GameSquare. It enables us to MOVE with speed and scale to continue to build what we believe is one of the most ambitious Ethereum treasury strategies in the public markets. Our goal is to transform a traditional treasury function into a high-performance business vertical generating durable, recurring cash flows.”
The deal includes a 15% overallotment option, which, if exercised, WOULD increase the total raise to $80.5 million. That comes on top of another $9.2 million raised just last week. If you’re counting, that’s more than $90 million in total gross proceeds aimed directly at Ethereum. Justin said the company is targeting ETH deployments across Dialectic-engineered strategies that have historically produced 8–14% on-chain yields.
He explained, “We believe this approach, combined with staking income and potential ETH appreciation, has the potential to deliver millions in annual incremental revenue. That cash FLOW can fund further ETH purchases and support broader growth initiatives across our platform.”
He ended the statement by saying the company is staying fully committed to its Ethereum strategy and is focused on building long-term value for shareholders.
Lucid Capital Markets is managing the offering as the sole book-runner. That means the entire raise, allocations, and institutional pipeline is flowing through them.
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