Exhibit 99.1
Bitmine
Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Announces ETH Holdings Reach 6.04 Million Tokens, and Total Crypto and Total Cash & Marketable Securities
Holdings of $15.1 Billion
Bitmine
owns 4.9% of the total ETH coin supply of 122.1 million
Bitmine
is 99% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 15 months
Bitmine
released Chairman’s Message on October 7 titled “Crypto Bull Underway — This Cycle Likely the Largest”
Bitmine
was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026
Bitmine’s
Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP
Bitmine
has 5,067,309 staked ETH, representing $12 billion at $2,365 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum
staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors
Bitmine
owns $74 million of Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS), now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world to provide investors indirect exposure
to OpenAI
Bitmine
Crypto + Total Cash Holdings & Marketable Securities + “Moonshots” total $15.1 billion, including 6.04 million ETH tokens,
total cash & marketable securities of $582 million, and other crypto holdings
Bitmine
remains supported by a premier group of institutional investors including ARK’s Cathie Wood, MOZAYYX, Founders Fund, Bill Miller
III, Pantera, Kraken, DCG, Galaxy Digital and personal investor Thomas “Tom” Lee to support Bitmine’s goal of acquiring
5% of ETH
NORWALK,
CT, October 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- (NYSE: BMNR) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company”),
a Bitcoin and Ethereum Network company with a focus on the accumulation of crypto for long term investment, today announced Bitmine crypto
+ total cash & marketable securities + “moonshots” holdings totaling $15.1 billion.
“The
risk appetite of investors contracted in the past few weeks fueled by the worrying combination of AI funding and AI model safety; escalating
US-Iran war activity; anxiousness in front of US midterm elections and generally rising bond yields around the world. This has triggered
a selloff in AI stocks including semis and memory stocks, and has further led to selloffs in the Korean and Taiwan markets, both of which
are dominated by semis and memory stocks,” stated Thomas “Tom” Lee, Chairman of Bitmine.
“Crypto
is widely held in the US, Korea and Taiwan. So naturally, when investors in those regions de-risk, this creates spillover pressures in
crypto markets. In the past, whenever fundamentals remain resilient and strong, while price declines, these have historically been attractive
risk/reward opportunities. And given crypto’s positive exposure to both modernizing global financial system rails and to agentic-AI,
we believe this will again prove to be the case,” continued Lee.
As
of October 18, 2026 at 3:00pm ET, the Company’s crypto holdings are comprised of 6,041,481 ETH at $2,365 per ETH (per Coinbase
NASDAQ: COIN), 215 Bitcoin (BTC), $180 million stake in Beast Industries, $74 million stake in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“moonshots”)
and total cash & marketable securities of $582 million. Bitmine’s ETH holdings are 4.9% of the ETH supply (of 122.1 million
ETH).
“We
believe Bitmine is positioned to outperform the crypto bull market that we expect to be coming, as the company has strengthened its competitive
position over the past year in the midst of a crypto winter (bear market),” continued Lee.
“Over
the past week, we acquired 12,535 ETH. Bitmine’s track record of consistent buying of crypto is unmatched by any public company
in the world. Bitmine has bought ETH each and every week since the inception of the ETH Treasury Strategy on June 30, 2025,” stated
Lee.
On
October 7, Bitmine released its latest Chairman’s message titled “Crypto Bull Underway — This Cycle Likely the Largest.”
The presentation is available at the Bitmine website (presentation link).

Earlier
in 2026, Bitmine launched MAVAN (the Made in America VAlidator Network), the institutional-grade staking platform. While MAVAN was originally
developed to support Bitmine’s own Ethereum treasury, MAVAN has expanded to serve institutional investors, custodians, and ecosystem
partners seeking best-in-class staking infrastructure. A portion of Bitmine’s ETH is already staked on the MAVAN platform.
As
of October 18, 2026, Bitmine total staked ETH stands at 5,067,309 ($12 billion at $2,365 per ETH). “Bitmine has staked more ETH
than other entities in the world. At scale (assuming Bitmine’s ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners), the projected
ETH staking reward would be $369 million on an annualized basis (using 2.58% 7-day BMNR yield). This compares to annualized staking revenues
at $309 million based upon 5.1 million staked ETH (84% of the 6.04 million ETH held by Bitmine),” continued Lee.

Bitmine’s
crypto holdings reign as the #1 Ethereum treasury and #2 global treasury, behind Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR), which reportedly owns
848,250 BTC valued at approximately $74 billion. Bitmine remains the largest ETH treasury in the world.
Bitmine
management believes the GENIUS Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Project Crypto are as transformational to
financial services in 2026 as the U.S. action on August 15, 1971, which ended the Bretton Woods system and took the U.S. dollar off the
gold standard 55 years ago. This 1971 event was the catalyst for the modernization of Wall Street, creating the iconic Wall Street titans
and financial and payment rails of today.
The
Chairman’s message can be found here:
https://www.Bitminetech.io/chairmans-message
The
Fiscal Full Year 2025 Earnings presentation and corporate presentation can be found here: https://Bitminetech.io/investor-relations/
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About
Bitmine
Bitmine
Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), together with its subsidiaries (“Bitmine” or the “Company”), is a
blockchain technology infrastructure company operating across institutional digital asset staking and validation services, bitcoin mining,
and strategic digital asset management. As the world’s leading Ethereum Treasury company, it implements an innovative digital asset
strategy for institutional investors and public market participants. The Company provides institutional-grade staking and validation
infrastructure—through which it earns staking rewards and validation income—alongside bitcoin mining activities. Bitmine
holds digital assets strategically, generating yield on those holdings to support liquidity and capital formation. Since 2025, the Company
has expanded its blockchain infrastructure capabilities, including developing and deploying MAVAN, its institutional staking and validation
platform. The Company’s activities further include investments in early-stage blockchain opportunities (“moonshot”
investments) and ancillary mining, hosting, and consulting services.
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Cautionary
Note on Forward Looking Statements
This
press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not purely historical and can generally
be identified by terms such as “expects,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,”
“anticipates,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “could,”
“should,” “view,” “likely,” “positioned,” or similar expressions. This press release
specifically contains forward-looking statements regarding: (i) the Company’s goal of acquiring 5% of the total ETH supply (the
“Alchemy of 5%” initiative); (ii) the Company’s digital asset accumulation and treasury strategy, including statements
regarding continued weekly ETH acquisitions and the Company’s status as the largest ETH treasury in the world; (iii) the Company’s
staking operations, including projected annualized ETH staking rewards of approximately $369 million at scale, assuming the Company’s
ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners, and currently projected annualized staking revenues of approximately $309 million;
(iv) MAVAN’s expansion to serve institutional investors, custodians, and ecosystem partners; (v) management’s beliefs regarding
crypto market conditions, including expectations of a coming crypto bull market and that the current cycle is likely the largest, that
recent price declines represent attractive risk/reward opportunities, and that the Company is positioned to outperform the crypto bull
market; (vi) management’s beliefs regarding the impact of investor risk appetite, AI funding and AI model safety, geopolitical
events, U.S. midterm elections, bond yields, and Korean and Taiwanese market conditions on crypto markets, and crypto’s exposure
to modernizing global financial system rails and agentic-AI; (vii) management’s belief that the GENIUS Act and SEC Project Crypto
are transformational to financial services; and (viii) statements regarding the value of the Company’s crypto, cash, marketable
securities, and “moonshot” holdings, including the indirect exposure to OpenAI provided by the Company’s investment
in Eightco Holdings.
These
forward-looking statements involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: the extreme volatility
and unpredictability of digital asset prices, including ETH and Bitcoin; the Company’s reliance on third-party pricing sources
and reported market values, which may fluctuate materially; changes in market conditions affecting the trading price and volume of the
Company’s securities; the Company’s ability to successfully execute its digital asset acquisition strategy and achieve its
ETH accumulation targets, including the “Alchemy of 5%” goal; the Company’s ability to finance its business operations
and MAVAN expansion; operational, security, and technological risks associated with the Company’s staking and validation operations,
including network failures, slashing events, cybersecurity breaches, and protocol changes; the risk that actual staking yields, rewards,
and revenues differ materially from projected amounts, including if the Company’s ETH is not fully staked; competition in the digital
asset treasury, staking, and mining industries; the Company’s dependence on key personnel; regulatory developments affecting digital
assets, blockchain technology, and staking activities, including the ultimate enactment, implementation, and interpretation of the GENIUS
Act and other pending legislation; actions by the SEC, CFTC, and other regulatory bodies; risks related to the Company’s “moonshot”
investments, including in Eightco Holdings and Beast Industries; macroeconomic and geopolitical factors, including inflation, interest
rates, bond yields, military conflicts, elections, and general economic conditions; volatility in AI-related and semiconductor equities
and in foreign markets, including Korea and Taiwan; changes to the Ethereum protocol; the performance of third-party service providers,
exchanges, custodians, and staking partners; and the other risk factors described in the Company’s filings with the SEC.
The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on information available to management as of the date of this release
and reflect management’s current expectations, estimates, and beliefs concerning future events. Actual results may vary materially
from those expressed or implied based on the factors described above and in the Risk Factors section of the Company’s Annual Report
on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 filed with the SEC on November 21, 2025, the Company’s Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q, and the Company’s other filings with the SEC, as amended or updated from time to time. Copies of these filings are
available at www.sec.gov and at https://Bitminetech.io/investor-relations/. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance
on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. Bitmine expressly disclaims any obligation
to update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.
SOURCE
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