An Ethereum whale known as thomasg.eth has accumulated roughly $19.5 million in Ether over the past week, signaling renewed accumulation as prices remain well below all-time highs.
Arkham data shows the wallet accumulated the position across spot Ether (ETH), wrapped Ether (WETH) and Aave-deposited ETH, including a $3 million purchase on March 20.
Arkham said the wallet held around $537 million in crypto assets at the 2021 market peak, and has started accumulating again as ETH trades around 56% below its all-time high of $4,946 on Aug. 24, 2025, according to CoinGecko.
The purchases came as US spot Ether exchange-traded funds posted a third straight trading day of net outflows. Data compiled by Farside Investors shows the funds recorded $55.7 million in net outflows on March 18, $136.4 million on March 19 and $42 million on March 20.
Bitmine’s Tom Lee calls ETH bottom
Separately, Bitmine Immersion Technologies, chaired by Fundstrat founder Tom Lee, which holds around 4.6 million ETH, is also doubling down on its conviction. Lee argued this week that the ETH bottom is in, citing analysis from Tom DeMark.
DeMark’s work flags Ethereum’s recent price action as showing a 93% correlation with the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500’s recovery after the 1987 crash and 2011 bottom, implying that ETH either bottomed around March 7 or is in the process of bottoming now.
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Lee also pointed to ETH’s realized price (the onchain average purchase price), currently around $2,241, noting that ETH was trading at a similar discount to that level as at prior major lows in 2022 and 2025.
Over the past decade, he said, ETH has returned roughly 49,000%, far outpacing Bitcoin’s 11,000% and even Nvidia’s parabolic run, arguing that ETH has been a “great store of value” despite brutal drawdowns.
Lee said Bitmine had accelerated purchases in recent weeks because its base case is that Ether is in the final stages of a “mini-crypto winter.”
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