ETH

Free_Range_Gamer

Since they are mentioned Eric Trump in the headline, let’s see what insight he has about ETH. > ETH is pumping hard! Great to see! > Crypto is the future…

__redruM

I started with SMH in 2024, and continued to buy through March of this year. I buy lower to medium risk and hold long term. Basic passive investing. There’s likely long term mileage on BTC and maybe ETH, but otherwise stay away from crypto, and learn about stock based ETFs. - /r/ETFs - /r/LETFs - /r/bogleheads

verysillyman

Eric Trump just posted about how ETH is ripping lol

Dmoan

Let’s not forget when Eric called the top by saying this “ In my opinion, it’s a great time to add ETH” 🤡

counterboy12

Flow created the ERC-721 standard and crashed ETH after that 😋 8 years later, ETH still hasn’t found a solution to its scalability issue 😋

everyoneisapotato

I don’t know how it works or what forces are behind it but this 4 year cycle is something else lol. This will be my 4th cycle and for the first 2 cycles i watched and played a little here and there. But in last cycle i planned it started DCAing when BTC was around 20-25k (low was 15k) and I sold most of my BTC and other crypto around 97-100k. This cycle i started again around 60k. I hope these cycles keep on playing and we can make some smart money. ETH performed real shit last cycle and I hope it breaks 5k this time. ✌🏻

Big-Finding2976

It's ETH and BTC that will fail.

counterboy12

If ETH doesn’t find a way to scale on its own, without the Layer 2 workarounds, it will drop further to the 400$ zone

Big-Finding2976

That's why Radix Hyperscale will succeed whilst these regarded blockchains fail. Asset-orientated human-readable transaction manifests that guarantee you'll receive what it says. Infinitely scalable and truly decentralised using cheap 4-core 16GB RAM nodes that anyone can run at home, making it the only L1 capable of handling the TPS that will be needed for global agentic AI traffic, without all the problems that come with splitting traffic onto L2s like ETH has to. You should look into it. https://www.radixdlt.com/learn/knowledge-base

Timely-Fig2030

BTC > ETH > ICP feels like the natural progress. People say it for the last 6 years and lots of people got burned in ICP, but i still believe Internet Computer is the logical next step. Bitcoin feels old and slow. If you add the lightning network to bitcoin, then bitcoin also has just 1 company behind it, which doesn't make it different from ETH or ICP. So it is what it is. In this case internet computer is far more advanced. Just because ETH and ICP had more reliable gains in the past, doesn't mean it has to be like that in the future.

noviwu97

That guy's life entirely depends on ETH doing well or he will be recorded in history as the biggest financial scammer, eveb bigger than Madoff and 5-6x bigger than FTX

arcrenciel

It is the same as stocks. You have the penny stocks, which most altcoins are. Buy these, and you either beoome insanely rich, or lose all your money. You usually just lose your money though haha. Then you have the blue chips, which is BTC/ETH. These are proclaimed dead every 4 years, but has always managed to come back stronger.

crawlpatterns

Calling ETH safe and adding 5x leverage is exactly how people learn how fast crypto can humble you

counterboy12

Go on, lecture us on how Bitcoin is a „storage of value“, completely ignoring the dependency on costly energy 😁 Go on, lecture us on how ETH is smart contract chain, completely ignoring the inefficiency like a monolithic chain architecture, which is horrible for scalability and speed 😁 Go on.

Internet_is_tough

You don't understand the basics, but I am not here to educate you. BTC and ETH do different things.

counterboy12

Layer 2s fragment liquidity, can censor/delay your transactions and have horrible UX. It was always regarded as a short term workaround, not the solution. ETH and its monolithic chain architecture is rotten from the core, only a multi node chain can fix this

counterboy12

ETH has a blocktime of 12 seconds and a finality of 12 minutes… it IS outdated. Also, nobody uses it at scale since it can’t scale. Everything is being flocked and fragmented over to shitty centralized Layer 2s.

Serenaded

\>Will quantum computing’s advancement make bitcoin obsolete? You can google this. The answer is yes. There is no fundamental way for something that lives on SHA256 to still be functional after quantum doomsday. And this is probably why ETH is breaking away from BTC, and elites are pivoting to ETH. Quantum doomsday is coming in the next 10 years, probably faster now that US gov is throwing trillions of dollars in funding into it.

Wide_Lock_Red

Or ETH.

Wide_Lock_Red

ETH was at 150-700 in 2020. BTC was way lower too. Things start looking bad if you bought in mid 2021 though or went for bad alt coins.

HoldCtrlW

There is a bug on finance it shows $1840 ETH?? Anyone else see that? How do we report it?

HoldCtrlW

Looks like $1800 was hard rejection for ETH looking for $1500 target short

Odd-Fun-1482

i'm not so sure about ETH these days.. maybe recover your cost basis, but growth past that? Doubtful. SOL/Polygon may have a better future for 'investment' purposes.

Odd-Fun-1482

Yeah if you are primarily BTC/ETH mix you'll be sitting in the -30% to -40% range

Excellent-Advice-948

The thing that breaks the "ETH isn't that swingy, so 5x long-term is fine" logic is how liquidation interacts with normal volatility. At 5x you get liquidated on roughly a \~20% move against you (a bit less after fees/funding). ETH having a 20–30% drawdown isn't a black-swan — it happens multiple times a year, even in bull markets. So the issue isn't whether ETH goes up long-term; it's that you'll almost certainly hit a normal dip that liquidates you before the long-term gain shows up. And liquidation is a one-way door — you don't get to "hold through it and wait for the recovery," which is the whole reason long-term spot investing works in the first place. That's the core mismatch: buy-and-hold survives drawdowns because you can just wait them out. Leverage takes away your ability to wait. Add the funding/interest that bleeds you every day you hold (others covered that), and a multi-year 5x hold is basically a bet that ETH never has a single normal-sized dip the whole time — which it will. If you want more long-term upside without the liquidation risk, that's just... buying more spot, or DCAing. Slower, but a random Tuesday can't wipe you out.

Nick700

And less than a year ago ETH dropped over 20% in a single day

mrjune2040

I just don’t know where you could have gotten the ‘ETH is outdated’ line from, other than an altcoin sub with an agenda. Because it’s just patently wrong, it’s literally the only smart contract protocol with a critical mass of uptake and last time I looked Ethereum and it’s L2’s accounted for the vast majority of all TVL and (real) transaction volume, plus EVM is what most banks and institutions are using to build their private blockchains on, plus the web3 Neo banks too. But broader advice, 99% of tokens outside of BTC will fail- so your current allocation is probably already too broad if you’re risk averse.

RoaringDragonSword

Cringe. You have yet to learn that very few make money on altcoins long-term. They can get lucky first trades. That will never lead them to investing into safer assets like BTC and ETH. Instead what they do is gambling their winnings and lose it. Do you know what you call these people? Gambling idiots. Granted, investing in BTC and ETH to some is already considered gambling.

NonVideBunt

Exactly.. crypto is just a casino and a scam, BTC and ETH included.

Crypto-Bets

Consolidation is the phrase you’re looking for. Dollars are the dominate form of crypto, usually spent on Tron, Binance, or ETH. Mass. Widespread crypto adoption is imminent, but looks incredibly boring. Nobody needs a “cheaper; more efficient Bitcoin” when we have stable-coins. & the wide-spread use of a blockchain software does not necessarily increase its token value. EX) Tron being the dominate USD payrail in many countries.

packet

You think BTC has no use and ETH is outdated? What in the world are you basing this on? Even btc and eth are highly speculative long term investments and have no place as a primary investment vehicle for retirement. Buy a total market index fund of equities and mix in some crypto (like 5%) if you like but total market index fund is the only correct answer for the base of retirement savings.

itsjawdan

For retirement the only logical choice is bitcoin. And I say that as an ETH maxi. So far it’s the only crypto to have stood a considerable test of time.

mrjune2040

‘ETH being outdated’ wtf, it’s literally the only smart contract protocol that anyone is using at scale.

MythicMango

Even if you swap for BTC and ETH what would you do with those in retirement? 

Working_Series2226

Coinbase. Never had any problems with them, ever. And support is good. Trading fees are slightly higher though. But I use it mainly for EUR > crypto. Then afterwards I use Uniswap to trade between ETH and ERC20 tokens

charvo

Most of the time, ETH longs pay 0.01% every 8 hours to shorts. This is around 10.2% annuallized. If you are going to be using leverage at 5x with this funding rate, you better be a good market timer.

Tasty-Finding4574

Right? ETH is really stable, only lost a bit over 40% over the last six months. Makes you really wonder why not more people use leverage.

Longjumping-Pop7512

Also many newbies miss it but you will get liquidated with only 12% movement against your bet in most exchanges with 5x. 12% crypto fluctuations is a drop in the ocean even with BTC and ETH. 

jamesmontanaHD

past six months ETH down 41%. if you leveraged 5x you'd literally have nothing

mtgox-fraud

Everyone's fixated on the $14.2M. They moved stolen SOL into ETH and skipped stablecoins entirely. Someone cashing to USDC wants out that day. Someone sitting in ETH is willing to hold a year. That's patience, and patience is what makes recovery unlikely. 181K SOL left in one clean transfer. No approval-farming, no drained allowances, no dust. On-chain it looks identical to the owner just sending his own funds, which means whoever did this had the private key or a signing path straight to it. I made money in the early exchange days and mostly remember watching people lose theirs to a single point of failure they never knew they had. One key, one machine, one bad day.

Fun_Pomegranate_8139

ETH ADDY: 0xdE065e4AD0B1D1F01c1af1Ce29140Dd416C0BE6e

Scared-Metal9294

Why would I stake my cryptocurrency for yield at 2.83% (ETH) when the current 10 yr treasury is at 4.53% and is safer and more stable. Investing in crypto is stupid. It’s a fancy digital Ponzi scheme

HoldCtrlW

ETH won't hit $180 lmao. It's hard rejection

LTP-N

Remember when you said ETH was going under $1500, it immediately same day jumped to $1700 and is now ~$1800

ElderMight

Ouch. How much are you down in ETH/BTC?

skymzx

Hyperliquid will flip ETH House of all Finance

HoldCtrlW

Good time to Short ETH here. Rsi is overbought

MatthewHopkinss

I’ve been holding ETH almost exactly 5 years. I’m down 21%.

b1mm3rl1f3

54 floors above the city, enjoying an old fashioned and contemplating buying ETH while bros stress out. Someone's gotta work the elevator

Banker_dog

This sub is basically an ETH circle jerk. No surprise the predictions are all comical

book4225

One of the comments: BTC will be around $600k, ETH will be around $40k. Let’s see haha

SillyMoneyRick

Be careful. I lost 50% of my ETH value when I un staked last year to slippage. Needed to get out fast and the process to unstake quickly was a fiasco. Lost over $20k.

MajorAnamika

From that thread: >Cryptocurrency won't be just a currency, it will be everywhere like in payments, internet, vpn, supplychain, games, social media, maps, etc etc. It's the future!! I feel like now we're at a stage similar to how the beginning of internet was like. Also, ETH will flip BTC.

SpontaneousDream

I love that there are fools out there that still believe this nonsense. More liquidity for my ratio short against ETH. So...thanks? Lol

cyger

After the 10/10 manipulation I sold most of my alts and rotated those assets into AI stocks and are pretty happy. It was one of the best things I ever did. No more stress of it dropping and dropping everyday. I'm holding a dash of ETH and a good size bag of SOL because these have a chance.

MinimalGravitas

> Does anybody else park their crypto on AAVE Yes, there are almost $13 billion worth of assets parked on AAVE at the moment, it is the 2nd biggest DeFi application all of crypto. https://defillama.com/protocol/aave I have assets still in AAVE from the first DeFi summer that I sometimes borrow against but have never moved. Don't really know about the AAVE governance token though, I use the platform for ETH/WETH and stablecoins.

ShanktarDonetsk

BTC + ETH reached ATH in 2025. You waiting for the altcoin pump that will never come?

Itslittlealexhorn

Long term it should be expected that TVL far outweighs market cap. The fact that it's been (and still is for most chains) the other way around is a persistent problem for crypto, namely "where are the users?". For comparison, BlackRock has a market cap of roughly $160 billion. which is just slightly over 1% of its assets under management at roughly $14 trillion. For other investment firms we find similar values. Ethereum has to be able to reliably function even if the value of ETH is just 10% or less of the TVL it secures.

tetsu2323

Cardano has always been rubbish. Just surprised so many believed Charles just because he was a founding member of ETH, for so many years. He rode on that and never had a proper plan. The whole ecosystem is a joke, like how Charles listed some universities as part of ADA's ecosystem back in 2021. "Peer reviewed" lmao ADA would probably pump every now and then but it's 0 long term.

JaNuS_d-_-b

Even better: ETH is number fucking 1 shitcoin globally!!11

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Hour_Flounder1405

I bought at 110 (after the all time high peaked at 125K). I sold at 98K (all of it). And measured in again at 58K. I don't own a crystal ball, but I know when my trade performance is screaming: "take action and stop being hard headed". So I listen to that ...it's not hard to know when your trades are horrible. You P/L record PROVES IT. but how do I KNOW when to get back in, when to get out? 200 MA MACD RSI sure those TA indicators can give you "SOME" insights. but they are NOT the predictors. For bitcoin, which is now a global asset, traded on every major classic trading exchange, and hedge funds and even with some nation state central banks trading it and buying it for a "reserve". It behaves now, quite correlated to the overall global market. In particular the tech sector, specifically NASDAQ. Bitcoin IS a tech "stock". It is also subject to the same drivers. interest rates, war and crisis, uncertainty, gold prices, nasdaq performance, S&P and DOW performance. So you have some correlations ..and of course, transparently you can actually see the ETF's failed miserably. That WAS TELLING. now there is more to this than even those fundamentals. specifically. THE POWER LAW. Look into this. I have. Albeit a little late to avoid making foolish trades I mentioned above. Here are the current figures. I'll start with the most important and immediate levels Lower Bounds (solid hard floor): 58700 (does this sound familiar? We just hit that and it went just slightly lower...a rounding error). That already happened. If you believe in the POWER LAW and understand how to calculate it, then we already had a floor for bitcoin. (but THIS ONLY APPLIES TO BITCOIN...don't even try that for etherium or any other coin. For etherium, use metcalfe's law...do the calculation but also understand that eth has broken down and violated metcalfe's law numerous times. However, BITCOIN has NEVER broken down and violated THE POWER LAW! It's not magic. it's just a very good way to measure price bounds for bitcoin. regression: this is 165,000. This is "fair value". This is where we are headed next. There is no frame of reference for time to hit this level. No one knows. But that is the current fair value regression. It will definitely mark AT LEAST that level in the next leg up. and the next level and understanding of the POWER LAW explains why Upper Bounds (cycle top, peak exuberance) - 582,000. This is the specific level of the next cycle all time high. Again, like regression level, there is no time specifics for this level to get hit. No one knows. But that is the cycle top. It will act as resistance. You will definitely want to take profit at or just below that level. notes: these figures are based on the ENTIRE data set of prices (absolute) for every single 10 second interval of bitcoin since the genesis block originated in a open public trading condition. These values DO CHANGE OVER TIME AS BITCOIN PRICES CHANGES AND MORE DATA POINTS ARE ESTABLISHED. also noting with emphasis: because we have hit the hard floor of support (lower bounds = approx 58,000), our next level IS regression (165K). When that level happens and it will, we recalculate THE POWER LAW including the new data points. And thus we will furnish a new set of LOWER, REGRESSION and Upper levels. But for now, we can depend on the levels here based on prior data. This has been incredibly accurate since the origination of the first genesis block was traded as bitcoin. It has never, not once violated the power law. (other crypto have failed miserably to follow any such power law with etherium only holding about a .58 correlation to metcalfe's law, proving there are no good mathematical formula or theories of past performance of ETH upon which to determine three dependable trading levels in the long term. (or the short, arguably). bitcoin is king for a reason. it's mature, limited in supply with only 1 more million to be mined between now and 2040 (approx). this feature makes is not only popular and understandable in terms of limited supply and comparison to a store of value (like gold), but mathematical formulas and theories such as THE POWER LAW prove that it conforms to a correlation of volatility that is dependable enough to be profitable for the long term trader. (not the short term day trader, no sir) You are welcome. Have a happy trading season and don't get greedy. It's not bitcoin that will punish greedy traders...it's market makers. Help them along by trading bitcoin with the POWER LAW and they look favorably on your participation. Go hog wild and fight against the trend...and you get rewarded with nuts in your face. God Bless America

xilepandora

If you are lucky to be in a country with BTC or ETH ATMs you can deposit cash and transfer to a wallet you have then trade onchain via decentralized exchanges or Hyperliquid

cosmic_censor

Fees being paid to the base chain and to dApps running on ethereum is around 13 million (USD) a day while the issuance of new eth is about 4 million (USD) a day. The you have all the fees being paid on L2s which is also in the millions and paid in ETH. Where is the recursion? Since newly created ETH does not cover all the fees being paid on ETH and L2s, that ETH is likely being bought on exchanges.

r33gna

As a casual, thanks for this heads up. I was going to do the bridge but then found out you need gas fees in ETH for that. Welp, I only got a paltry amount of Moons that I got for free anyways. I never really understood it but this subreddit and Moons let me interact and try stuff with crypto for free and that's very cool. XD

MarioWilson122

I can see some people adding ETH to that list, or even SOL. But after last cycle, it's hard to really argue against BTC being the pick if we only get one, especially if it's a large amount of money in it.

ntc2e

guys, he cracked the code!!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!! can't believe ETH is going to 50 million

Milcah_Ganderton

Memecoins gonna memecoin - people chase hype instead of fundamentals and act shocked when it evaporates. At least with actual projects like ETH you've got something building in the background, not just a ticker riding celebrity momentum.

cosmic_censor

Fee revenue for ETH is some of the highest in the industry with only Tron routinely surpassing it.

Reach_Beyond

What’s the biggest bear case for ETH if the future of digital assets and crypto IS still built on Ethereum? If TVL, assets, activities keep growing (assumption). How low can ETH go? It cannot go to zero, it needs value and holders of the underlying Ether token to secure the proof of stake methods to work?

Critical_Deer_1892

https://preview.redd.it/gdfvz0g439ch1.png?width=3420&format=png&auto=webp&s=6335541ecf83eb109a90fe9da0e611c0ba616f6d ETF flows are starting to diverge. BTC ETFs: -$84.9M latest flow ETH ETFs: +$70.5M latest flow BTC still holds the larger AUM, but ETH is showing cleaner short-term demand here.

crossy1686

Yep, you can’t build anything on ETH that won’t get killed by gas fees at some point, takes up to minutes to resolve, and requires you to bounce between layers to negate the aforementioned issues. The only reason ETH still holds any value is the whales that bought years ago don’t want to sell and pay the gas fees.

snazzig

Lmao what this means is when that locked ETH frees up its dumping another 60% to 500$

Upset_Albatross_9179

I think this comparison doesn't make sense in two ways. 1. Why should these numbers be connected? The whole point of building things on ETH is that you get to use ETH indirectly and don't have to use it directly. 2. Network usefulness != market cap. If use and demand goes up, that drives up market cap. But if you create a very efficient way to do something interesting, you make the network a lot more useful without driving up demand. Point 2 is a very long standing problem. You can create a network that does something interesting. But you also then have to make the tokenomics work. And often those end up being almost opposed motivations. What this tweet is pointing out is something like a security concern. ETH is proof of stake. If there's a $1T economy operating on a $100B market cap ETH, then a molevolent actor could spend $51B to disrupt a market 20 times that size. Or less malevolently, the POS votes could vote in favor of their $100B interests that might be totally opposed to the interests of the $1T economy depending on it. If people invested in the ETH economy feel there's a risk, they can start purchasing ETH and participating in POS to make it more secure. And the more that happens, the more the ETH market cap rises and the more secure it supposedly gets.

OldDomainer

Stablecoins might actually be crypto’s cleanest product-market fit so far. Not everyone wants to trade every candle. Some people just want a simple way to hold value, move funds, and earn passively without dealing with 20 wallets and smart contract risks. That’s why CeFi platforms still make sense for beginners. I’ve been looking at platforms like CoinDepo because they make BTC/ETH/SOL/USDT yield feel simple, especially with fixed-rate options. Crypto doesn’t always have to be about chasing the next 100x. Sometimes the real use case is just making your assets work quietly.

uyarti

ETH is an overvalued piece of shit should’ve bought in 2020 and sold in 21 like me move on already

Left_Entrepreneur918

If ETH can get its killer app, it will be valuable, until then it really doesn’t do anything

jawni

>The originally comment was “Cardano does not scale”. All blockchains evolve from their current state. Well, the current state of Cardano is that it cannot scale. Maybe that changes, but we've yet to see it yet. >Look at ETH, they’re proposing to build and switch to a utxo model. 1. They are not proposing to switch to it. 2. It's a research paper by one person that is still being researched. 3. It shows that by adding utxo *in addition to accounts* they could lower state usage in certain situations. >Why would I push back on the stats? If the point is to demonstrate the usage is low, then there is no debate. Usage is low, yes. I had to cherrypick a block that wasn't nearly empty to use as an example, but the point isn't that usage is low. The point is that the ceiling on throughput is low because of the tiny blocks and long block times. That *is* scaling, or more accurately a lack of scaling. >If the point is the argue that Cardano doesn’t or can’t scale, then that’s incorrect and I’ll gladly challenge it. I honestly have no clue how I could make it more obvious. I showed you, based on actual usage, the limits of how much it can scale. If you want to keep going down the "well after Leios it will be different" then we'll have to wait and see, sort of like we've be doing with Cardano for almost a decade now.

Banker_dog

The originally comment was “Cardano does not scale”. All blockchains evolve from their current state. Look at ETH, they’re proposing to build and switch to a utxo model. Why would I push back on the stats? If the point is to demonstrate the usage is low, then there is no debate. If the point is the argue that Cardano doesn’t or can’t scale, then that’s incorrect and I’ll gladly challenge it.

Healthy-Walk2772

even I uses this platform for exchanging crypto from BTC to ETH

divexpat

Ethereum DATs earn a yield on their ETH for being validators of the Ethereum blockchain. Bitmine's cost to pay out preferred dividends is only around 10% of what they are earning yearly from their validation yield. Bitmine will never need to sell ETH to fund their preferred stock dividends. Bitmine's goal is to own 5% of ETH. They have 4.8% as of last Monday. After that their goal is to expand their investments into the Ethereum ecosystem. Bitmine also owns one of the largest 3rd party proof of stake (i.e. POS) validator networks in the world. This is a large and profitable business. They don't just validate Ethereum but also other POS chains like Solana and for doing that they generally earn 10% of whatever yield they validate for people (10% is the industry standard). The other large Ethereum DATs either have no debt, including preferred stocks, or they have another business they run in addition to being an ETH DAT. So, Sharplink (SBET) has no debt. Another example, Bit Digital (BTBT), owns 70% of an AI data center company. So, ETH DATs do not have the same issues as MSTR.

Zhytaleks

BTC and ETH are still the safest long-term bets in my opinion. Beyond those, I'd only allocate a small percentage to projects with real adoption and active development, like SOL or LINK. For a 10+ year horizon, survivability matters more than chasing the next 100x.

Raymikqwer

Yh I only have one shitcoin position remaining (mostly because it's liquidity is dead and I can really be assed to deal with it now). Remaining portfolio is just 90% BTC and 10% ETH. A very tiny amount of shitcoins will pump, but it's very unlikely you manage to pick those ones.

NoBrosCrypto

No I won’t recommend things I’m not sure of. BTC and ETH are my only conviction plays. The rest, make sure you look at the use case, developer adoption (who’s building on it), TVL (total value locked) but be careful this is more a metric around DeFi, and tokenomics. Also check whether it’s growing or dying - not by price but by activity. Developers, Dapps, unique wallets, unique wallets, etc. Just steer clear of all memecoins as they literally have no utility. Only the big ones like DOGE if you must, since it’s been around long enough and has at least ongoing transactions and activity. Otherwise consider that pure gambling if you’re playing down that end.

VizeKarma

That is the exact reason why I haven't begun development. The plan as of now is to make growth follow the revenue rather than to outpace it. If usage on a given chain starts costing more than what the donations bring in, I'd throttle or cap before adding more networks rather than expect blind and hope donations catch up. Worst is that it stays smaller and slower-growing than I'd like, but it doesn't go bankrupt from its own popularity. For BTC/ETH, running your own node isn't too expensive. I ran some estimates on bitcoind and an eth validator, and I estimate around $100-$150 per month on cloud compute on Hetzner. That works out to be around $5 a day, which I think could be manageable over donations. As I expand into more networks, I hope that number will go up somewhat linearly.

Extension-Text1071

That image is the kind of thing that make me laugh, "is it a crash or just a tuesday" is too real. The dashboard panel showing SOL oversold and ETH overbought at the same time is actually interesting, most sentiment tools just give one number for the whole market. I am wondering how you handle the data when coins move in opposite directions like that, does The Gauge weight them by market cap or something

jawni

What metrics or signals do you track that makes you positive ETH will win that market share?

MinimalGravitas

> And what is the bull case for ETH right now? Last year Larry Fink's chairman's letter to shareholders talked about tokenizing *"Every stock, every bond, every fund, every asset".* This year at Davos he was explaining his vision of moving the financial system onto *"one common blockchain"*. Since then Blackrock (largest asset manager in the world) has announced 2 new tokenization projects on Ethereum; JP Morgan (largest bank in the world) has announced a tokenization project on Ethereum; Fidelity (3rd largest asset manager in the world) has deployed a tokenization project to Ethereum... The majority of institutional adoption of blockchains is happening on Ethereum and will continue to do so. There are a couple of exceptions, Tron has lots of stablecoins, and Canton has a lot of represented (i.e. non-transferable) assets, but other than those specific cases no other network has any meaningful amount of adoption. Then when investors are looking to put money into the asset of a chain, I think it is likely they will choose the asset that powers the global economic system, which means ETH.

oak1337

>Headera is good and has many utilities but it's designer to not go over 1-1,3 dollar maximum (in the best and widest scenario) False, it could easily go well above that. But even if this was true, it's under 7 cents right now. You're talking about a 18x if it goes to $1.30. You said you got a 1.3x with ETH? Cool...

Garrett_CPAatCOS

Similar to a stock portfolio, I recommend keeping the majority of your holdings in the "blue chips" (BTC and ETH) and a smaller allocation in "growth stocks" (altcoins). The exact percentage depends on your risk tolerance, how essential those funds are to your financial goals, and when you expect to need them.

BeachMonkey7777

Between most ETH Lvl2 yep. Best way to do this nowadays. Just make sure you use the uniswap dot org link and not the sponsored links from google.

Solid-Individual-913

at this point Im holding ETH but I think crypto is dead, scams, ponzis and absolute garbage. Maybe bitcoin survives. It may still rally the next time the fed cuts rates to a certain level. But if there is a rally to like 5k/ETH im taking the money.

jawni

>There is more value in RWAs on Ethereum than on every other chain combined; more value in DeFi on Ethereum than on every other chain combined; and more value in stablecoins on Ethereum than on every other chain combined. And this has been true for years, but it hasn't really mattered that much in a practical sense and hasn't matter from a price perspective. ETH is at roughly 50% dominance for stablecoin supply and TVL share of the industry and while a 50% share is great, it's also been at 50% for years now and obviously started much higher (essentially at 100%). Every chain it competes with has plenty of liquidity and can use those same assets to similar degrees and often with better performance. So why would this be a selling point for ETH? And what is the bull case for ETH right now?

end32urzm

While I agree, we've seen superior tech fail time and time again. Still bullish on HBAR long term but I wouldn't be surprised if ETH pumps in the next few years, sometimes that's just how it is.

oak1337

Idk how anyone can be bullish on ETH... Vitalik literally just said they have to rebuild and redesign the entire protocol over the next 3-4 years (optimistic). "Lean Ethereum", because it's too complicated, too centralized, not secure enough (quantum), can't scale, etc. Bye bye ETH, it was nice knowing ya! HBAR is the future! All roads lead to Hedera!

AdOk1101

ADA is the only serious protocol.  ETH is still playing tech catch up to ADA.  BTC was first, thats its only reason why people buy it even though its the most obsolete tech.

Exact_Release5966

Good point. Is the staking yield your main reason for choosing ETH, or is it the ecosystem as well?

Dangerous_Relief8971

honestly probably ETH just because it's the one I actually understand well enough to not panic-sell during a 70% drawdown. holding something for 10 years is more about your own conviction surviving the chart than picking the "right" coin

Funnellboi

BTC or ETH is clearly the obvious answer. However, if you want to "venture" out into lower cap coins, I would say any of RENDER, CRV or TEL would be my choices.

MinimalGravitas

Holding SOL long term will be looked back on exactly like we look back on EOS, NEO etc. BTC might be fine in 10 years, but it faces 2 long term risks, the security budget falling and the threat to old UTxOs (potentially about 30% of BTC) from quantum computers. There is no way to know when either of these will result in an attack, but there is also no sign of any meaningful consensus from the bitcoin community about what to do about either risk (other than trying to avoid talking about them). So that leaves ETH. Since the move to PoS there is no risk to the security budget, and a fairly simple analysis of addresses shows that less than 0.5% of ETH is in accounts vulnerable to the early private key hacking type of quantum attacks that threaten bitcoin. On the other hand, heads of literally the biggest financial institutions in the world are currently talking about moving the legacy financial system onto 'one common blockchain' and have been deploying tokenization projects to Ethereum. https://ethereumadoption.com/built-on-ethereum/ There is more value in RWAs on Ethereum than on every other chain combined; more value in DeFi on Ethereum than on every other chain combined; and more value in stablecoins on Ethereum than on every other chain combined. The answer to your question seems pretty simple.