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<p>SharpLink (SBET) has deployed $170 million worth of Ethereum for restaking services. The Ethereum treasury company is seeking to earn more rewards from staking and restaking Ethereum through a secure and regulated Anchorage Digital.</p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-sharplink-restake-portion-of-its-2-7b-eth-position-nbsp">SharpLink Restake Portion of its $2.7B ETH Position&nbsp;</h2><p>On Thursday, SharpLink announced that it deployed $170 million worth of Ether on Linea through Anchorage Digital. As such, SharpLink earns rewards from native Ethereum yields, between 3% – 4%, and restaking on EigenCloud which adds additional benefits of nearly 5% depending on the specific protocol.&nbsp;</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>2026 marks the beginning of Ethereum’s "productive era" and a major step function in its adoption curve.<br><br>This $170M deployment on <a href="https://twitter.com/LineaBuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@LineaBuild</a> brings DeFi yield to public markets within a qualified custodian.<br><br>This is what institutional-grade productivity looks like. <a href="https://t.co/szOdj2uAmG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://t.co/szOdj2uAmG</a></p>— Joseph Chalom (@joechalom) <a href="https://twitter.com/joechalom/status/2009264888288563675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">January 8, 2026</a></blockquote></div></figure><p>SharpLink has accumulated a total of 859,853 Ether for a total cost of $3.1 billion, but the value has dropped to $2.68 billion. The company is likely to restake more of its ETH holdings to optimize its gains as a treasury company.</p><h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-bigger-picture">Bigger Picture</h2><p>The restaking of $170 million worth of Ether by SharpLink is an indication of the rising demand for Ethereum by institutional investors. Joseph Chalom, CEO of SharpLink, <a href="https://x.com/joechalom/status/2009264888288563675?s=46" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">stated</a> that Ethereum’s productive era is at hand, catalyzed by institutional-grade protocols in 2026.</p><p><a href="https://x.com/ethereumjoseph/status/2009307923491729866?s=46" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">According to Joseph Lubin</a>, co-founder of Ethereum, 2026 is the year that massive TradiFi liquidity flows to Ethereum. The fact that an institution can stake and restake Ethereum through federally regulated protocols such as Anchorage Digital, will attract more cash flow to its web3 protocols in 2026.</p><p>As such, the rising demand for <a href="https://coinpedia.org/price-prediction/market-price-prediction-ethereum-2019/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ETH</a> by institutional investors will catalyze a bullish outlook in 2026 amid an anticipated crypto bull market. Moreover, the Ethereum ecosystem will gain more regulatory clarity once the Clarity Act is enacted by President Donald Trump.</p>

SharpLink Restakes $170M ETH on Linea Via Anchorage Digital: Redirecting TradFi Capital to Ethereum

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