ETHZilla bought two jet engines for $12.2 million. The Ethereum treasury company made the purchase through a newly formed subsidiary called ETHZilla Aerospace LLC.
ETHZILLA BUYS JET ENGINES AFTER SELLING ETH
ETHZilla has bought two jet engines for $12.2M via a new subsidiary after selling $114M in $ETH holdings.
SEC filings show the engines will be leased to airlines to generate predictable cash flow.
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A Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the details. The company acquired two CFM56-7B24 aircraft engines.
The engines are currently leased to a major airline. ETHZilla hired Aero Engine Solutions to manage them in exchange for a monthly fee.
The deal includes a buy-sell option agreement. Either party can require the other to buy or sell the engines for $3 million each when the lease expires.
This move follows months of ETH sales by the company. ETHZilla sold $40 million in ETH in October to fund a stock buyback program.
The company then offloaded another $74.5 million in December. That sale was used to redeem outstanding debt.
The stock price has suffered during this period. ETHZilla shares have tumbled roughly 97% since their August peak.
The jet engine purchase fits into a broader strategy. ETHZilla is pivoting toward bringing real-world assets onto the blockchain.
The company outlined these plans in a December shareholder letter. ETHZilla announced a partnership with Liquidity.io, a regulated broker-dealer and SEC-registered alternative trading system.
Before that announcement, ETHZilla took a 15% stake in Zippy. The lender focuses on manufactured home loans.
ETHZilla plans to tokenize those loans as compliant, tradable instruments. The company also acquired a stake in auto finance platform Karus with similar goals.
Buying and leasing jet engines is a standard business practice in aerospace. Companies like AerCap, Willis Lease Finance Corporation, and SMBC Aero Engine Lease operate in this space.
Airlines lease jet engines as spares to keep planes operational. If a primary engine fails, the spare ensures no disruption.
The aerospace industry is currently facing an engine supply squeeze. IATA said its airline members would pay about $2.6 billion to lease spare engines in 2025.
The global aircraft engine leasing market is growing. TechSci Research expects it to expand from $11.17 billion in 2025 to $15.56 billion by 2031 at a 5.68% CAGR.
ETHZilla posted on X that it’s “building a scalable tokenization pipeline across asset classes with predictable cash flows and global investor demand.” The company expects to list its first tokenized asset offerings in the first quarter of this year.
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