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Peter Thiel Dumps Ethereum Treasury Play ETHZilla, Exits Entire Stake

Peter Thiel and entities tied to Founders Fund have totally exited ETHZilla, the publicly traded Ethereum treasury play that after marketed itself as a proxy wager on company ETH accumulation. A Schedule 13G/A filed Tuesday exhibits the reporting group completed 2025 with no remaining frequent shares, wiping out a place that had been intently watched throughout each crypto and small-cap fairness circles.

Thiel Exists Ethereum Treasury Play

The amended submitting, dated Feb. 17, 2026, is unusually blunt on the present footprint: “Aggregate quantity… 0.00. Percent of sophistication… 0.0%. Ownership of 5 p.c or much less of a category.” The positions are reported as of Dec. 31, 2025, which means the exit was accomplished by year-end.

That zeroed-out line merchandise is a pointy distinction to what Thiel-related autos disclosed just a quarter earlier. In a previous Schedule 13G/A reporting holdings as of Sept. 30, 2025, Thiel was listed with 928,389 shares beneficially owned, representing 5.6% of the category at the moment, with further blocks attributed to Founders Fund entities. The identical submitting famous the corporate’s 1-for-10 reverse inventory cut up efficient Oct. 20, 2025, with reported share counts adjusted accordingly.

ETHZilla’s story arc issues as a result of it tried to translate the Bitcoin treasury template into an ETH-native wrapper at a second when public-market autos had been being pitched as liquid, leverable on-ramps to digital asset publicity. Thiel’s preliminary involvement, extensively reported as a 7.5% stake disclosed in August 2025, helped legitimize that pitch, a minimum of briefly.

More just lately, ETHZilla has been signaling a pivot away from a pure ETH-treasury identification and towards tokenized real-world property, together with aviation. In an 8-Okay tied to a Feb. 12 press launch, the corporate stated its subsidiary launched “Eurus Aero Token I,” describing it as “a tokenized real-world asset instrument” that offers publicity to plane engines on lease “via tradable digital tokens representing contractual income rights.”

The sequencing leaves merchants with an uncomfortable, unresolved query: did Founders Fund’s exit precede (and implicitly front-run) the technique shift, or was it merely a portfolio cleanup after the preliminary “ETH treasury” narrative cooled?

On X, one commentator framed Thiel’s timing as a part of a broader sample, although a number of of the publish’s claims transcend what’s within the SEC submitting. The account @treebook78 known as Thiel a “grasp at sensing crises,” writing that he “dodged this present dip too,” and arguing he’s an “exit grasp” who will get out early when bubbles or stress construct.

“Back in 2022, he posted diamond arms on SNS telling folks to carry Bitcoin without end, however then he quietly offered every part and prevented the Luna crash and FTX collapse (as I recall),” @treebook78 wrote.

At press time, Ethereum traded at $1,984.

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