SharpLink Gaming, a web-based gaming firm with the second-largest company Ether treasury, introduced a web lack of $103 million for the second quarter of 2025, pushed by a paper loss from accounting for liquid staked Ether (LsETH). The loss marks a steep drop from a $500,000 loss in the identical interval of 2024 — a year-over-year change of -25,980%.
According to a Friday announcement, SharpLink now holds 728,804 Ether (ETH) value roughly $3.5 billion at this writing. The one publicly traded firm with extra ETH is BitMine Immersion Applied sciences, which holds slightly greater than 1.15 million ETH value roughly $5.1 billion.
Of SharpLink’s Q2 loss, $87.8 million — or 85% — is expounded to the corporate’s LsETH. A SharpLink consultant informed Cointelegraph that the corporate nonetheless has all its LsETH and that the impairment “displays accounting guidelines, not a sale or lack of ETH.”
“Underneath US GAAP, LsETH is at present handled as a digital intangible asset, which is recorded at price and topic to impairment,” a SharpLink spokesperson mentioned. “In Q2, the bottom market worth of LsETH was $2300, triggering the $87.8M non-cash impairment.”
GAAP stands for “Usually Accepted Accounting Ideas,” and is extensively utilized by companies for monetary reporting. SharpLink posted income of $700,000 for Q2 2025.
SharpLink’s shares trended downward on the information. According to Google Finance, the corporate’s share worth is down 12.58% on the Nasdaq at this writing.
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Ether treasury corporations might spark DeFi summer time
Ether treasury corporations and exchange-traded funds are anticipated to help shopping for strain for ETH, with renewed worth predictions already rising.
Multinational banking firm Customary Chartered has mentioned ETH could hit $7,500 by the end of 2025. Market technique and analysis agency Fundstrat is much more optimistic, saying ETH could reach $15,000 by year’s end.
Etherealize’s Vivek Raman says that competitors between Ether treasury corporations might spark additional exercise on decentralized finance networks, main to an institutional-scale DeFi summer 2.0.
Ether has been rising since the ecosystem’s May Pectra upgrade. On that day, ETH had a worth of roughly $1,811. On the time of this writing, ETH’s worth is $4,382, a leap of 142% over the interval.
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