SharpLink to Deploy $200M in ETH on Consensys’ Linea — Is This the Future of Institutional DeFi and AI-Powered Yields?

SharpLink Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBET), one of the world’s largest corporate holders of Ethereum, has announced plans to deploy $200 million in ETH from its corporate treasury onto Linea, the Ethereum Layer-2 network developed by Consensys. NEW: SharpLink plans to deploy $200M of $ETH on @LineaBuild through a collaboration with @ether_fi , @eigenlayer , and@Anchorage. Through this partnership, SharpLink will now access enhanced $ETH -denominated yield from: – Native staking yield – Direct incentives from Linea and… ￰0￱ — SharpLink (SBET) (@SharpLinkGaming) October 28, 2025 The move marks a huge collaboration between SharpLink, ether.

fi, EigenCloud, and Anchorage Digital Bank — showing a new institutional pathway for onchain yield generation through DeFi ￰1￱ Treasury Meets DeFi Innovation SharpLink’s ETH will be deployed through Anchorage Digital Bank, its qualified custodian, and allocated into a combination of staking, restaking, and AI-yield strategies built on Linea’s zkEVM ￰2￱ strategy combines Ethereum staking rewards, EigenCloud restaking incentives, and native Linea yield programs, offering the company diversified ETH-denominated returns. SharpLink’s Co-CEO Joseph Chalom describes the initiative as a defining moment in institutional crypto treasury management. “As one of the largest public holders of ETH, we manage our treasury with institutional ￰3￱ deployment allows us to access Ethereum’s best staking and DeFi yields, while maintaining the security and compliance expected by our stockholders,” he ￰4￱ added that the partnership reflects SharpLink’s broader strategy to responsibly enhance yield and unlock scalable treasury performance while advancing Ethereum’s global adoption.

Linea: Building Ethereum’s Institutional Layer Linea — developed by Consensys , the firm behind MetaMask and Infura — is positioned as Ethereum’s high-performance, zkEVM Layer-2 designed for enterprises and ￰5￱ to Joseph Lubin, Consensys’ Founder and CEO (and Ethereum co-founder), Linea is part of a long-term vision to make ETH more “productive” for institutional capital. “Through this collaboration, SharpLink’s ETH will earn enhanced native yield through Linea’s ecosystem partners, ￰6￱ and EigenCloud. It’s a model we believe other institutions will adopt,” Lubin said. AI-Powered Yields and Verifiable Infrastructure Sreeram Kannan, Founder and CEO of Eigen Labs, emphasized that this partnership lays the groundwork for a new “verifiable economy” where AI, DeFi, and trustless infrastructure intersect.

“SharpLink’s commitment positions them at the foundation of a verifiable economy — one that supports AI workloads, insured DeFi, and trustless infrastructure secured by ETH,” Kannan ￰7￱ leveraging EigenCloud’s Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVSs), SharpLink’s deployed ETH will not only earn staking returns but also secure decentralized AI models and computational ￰8￱ the Way for Institutional DeFi Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley framed the collaboration as the dawn of Ethereum’s “institutional era.” — “At Anchorage Digital, we’re proud to power SharpLink’s staking solution on Linea — proving that innovation and compliance can move in lockstep,” he ￰9￱ $200 million ETH deployment is expected to be the first phase of a multi-year commitment, with SharpLink and Consensys planning to co-develop programmable liquidity tools, tokenized equity models, and institutional-grade DeFi ￰10￱ message is clear: Ethereum’s next growth phase is not just decentralized — it’s institutional, verifiable, and AI-driven.