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A new SEC filing shows Peter Thiel-linked Founders Fund entities now own zero ETHZilla shares, after disclosing a 7.5% stake in 2025. Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has fully exited Ether treasury company ETHZilla, according to a Tuesday filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  Entities linked to Thiel now report owning zero shares in the company in a 13G amendment filed on Tuesday, after disclosing a 7.5% stake on Aug. 4, 2025.  At that time, the group beneficially owned 11,592,241 shares of what was then known as 180 Life Sciences Corp., representing 7.5% of the 154,032,084 shares outstanding and worth about $40 million based on trading at around $3.50 per share in early August. Read more

Crypto treasury firm ETHZilla recently sold some of its crypto to begin a tokenization push by buying two jet engines leased to a US airline. Crypto treasury company ETHZilla has launched a token offering access to equity in jet engines that the company acquired last month as part of its pivot into tokenized assets. ETHZilla said on Thursday that the token, called Eurus Aero Token I, was being launched through its new subsidiary, ETHZilla Aerospace, and is backed by two commercial jet engines that are leased to “a leading US air carrier.” The company has priced each token at $100, with a minimum purchase of 10 tokens. ETHZilla said it’s targeting an 11% return rate based on holding it for the full term of the engine leases that extend into 2028. Read more

ETHZilla unveiled a tokenized aviation asset, Eurus Aero Token I, offering accredited investors access to lease income from two commercial jet engines.

ETHZilla’s shift toward tokenization comes after a sharp downturn in its core crypto holdings.

ETHZilla acquired two aircraft engines for $12 million, just weeks after the company said it was renewing its focus on tokenizing real-world assets. The Ethereum treasury company ETHZilla has purchased two jet engines after selling off some of its crypto stash and increasing its focus on asset tokenization. ETHZilla said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it purchased two aircraft engines through a newly formed subsidiary, ETHZilla Aerospace LLC, for $12.2 million in cash. The engines, which are used in large commercial planes, came with existing lease agreements with a major airline, enabling the firm to begin earning yields from them. Read more

The transaction highlights growing pressure on crypto treasury companies to prioritize debt reduction as token prices remain volatile. Crypto treasury company ETHZilla said in a filing with US regulators that it sold part of its Ether holdings to repay outstanding convertible notes amid a broader market downturn. The company disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission the sale of 24,291 Ether (ETH) for $74.5 million at an average price of $3,068.69 per token, leaving about 69,800 ETH on its balance sheet as of Friday. The company said it expects to use all or a significant portion of the proceeds to redeem its outstanding senior secured convertible notes. Read more

The company’s second acquisition in a week brings manufactured-home chattel loans onchain as Ether treasury stocks continue to slide. Former biotech company ETHZilla (ETHZ) is doubling down on its push into real-world asset markets, taking a 15% stake in digital housing lender Zippy to bring manufactured-home loans onchain. The deal marks the company’s second acquisition in a week. According to Wednesday’s announcement, ETHZilla will pay $5 million in cash and $16.1 million in stock for a 15% stake in Zippy, a US-based lender founded in 2021 that originates manufactured-home loans through a digital platform. The companies plan to link Zippy’s loan-origination and AI-powered systems with ETHZilla’s tokenization stack for onchain distribution of manufactured-home chattel loans, including potential forward-flow sales to institutional investors. Read more

The deal grants ETHZilla access to Karus’s AI underwriting engine and loan origination network, positioning the crypto treasury company to offer auto credit onchain in 2026. Crypto treasury company ETHZilla (ETHZ) has taken a strategic step into onchain credit with the acquisition of a 20% fully diluted stake in automotive-finance AI startup Karus. The $10 million deal includes $3 million in cash and $7 million in ETHZilla stock, and will allow the company to integrate Karus’s underwriting AI models into its blockchain stack to issue tokenized auto-loan portfolios. According to Wednesday’s announcement, Karus’s decisioning engine is trained on more than 20 million historical auto-loan outcomes and has evaluated over $5 billion in loans at origination, giving ETHZilla a pre-modeled data set to structure AI-segmented pools with onchain settlement. The first tokenized portfolios are slated for early 2026. Read more

ETHZilla’s CEO says the Ethereum treasury company plans to work with layer-2 protocols to generate a higher yield than it could get from staking. ETHZilla CEO McAndrew Rudisill has revealed he made the decision to go all in on Ethereum after seeing its potential in the nearly trillion-dollar global remittance market. Two months later, his formerly floundering biotechnology company is now the eighth-largest public Ethereum treasury in the world. “Ethereum is effectively a gateway for money supply globally to transmit in US dollars,” ETHZilla CEO McAndrew Rudisill told Cointelegraph. Read more

ETHZilla has confirmed plans to rebrand from 180 Life Sciences and adopt Ethereum as its reserve asset, funding the move with a $425 million PIPE. Proceeds will buy ETH and support a yield program run by Electric Capital, guided by a DeFi Council and investors such as Polychain. The post 180 Life Sciences Rebrands as ETHZilla, Unleashes $425M Ethereum Treasury Raise appeared first on Cryptonews.