ETH

Fresh-Insurance-2919

Love your analysis. Solid book out on Canton that came out recently on Amazon called The Dark Horse of Crypto if you want to do a deep dive on the network. I’m a big fan of Canton. It seems to have little correlation with BTC. Up 6+% this week while BTC and ETH are both down 15-20% over the past week. I think that is because of the burn-mint structure that you described. It’s easy to see how value accrues to CC without requiring narrative, hype or speculation. Frankly I’d rather the price of CC stay down for awhile so the burn can keep eliminating more of the supply 

AlphadeltaVII

Dramatic price? I’d suggest keeping your eyes peeled for multiple scenarios… I’ve been studying both the BTC and ETH chart since 2022 when I started working as a crypto journalist for a Belgian newspaper, managed to call both bottom and top formations on both. I analyse charts, do my research and then get in. It’s called preperation. I’m a BTC and ETH maxi, but I sold everything at the top, getting back in at the bottom, that’s how you maximize your gains. I’ll definitely be hodling for years when I do get in again, I’m a long term believer in both and I think we’ll see higher prices in our lifetimes.

Dazzling_Marzipan474

Same here I even bought a little chunk of BMNR. Of course ETH can go lower but I'd rather buy at $1700 and watch it go to $900 instead of buying at $3500 and watching it go to $900 or whatever. I'm not trying to hold it for a super long time. I'll dump it if it does a 2x.

michaltee

ETH is garbage.

Dry-Pop-7635

Probably smart to see how low it goes first, but a sharp dive usually results in a bounce too. Personally I think it's a great price, but I'm holding ETH atm so I'm biased

Digital-Exploration

ETH is the stable coin

AlphadeltaVII

I’m looking to accumulate solely ETH and BTC next cycle but XRP will most definitely survive the bear; chart is looking good and it’s still a top 10 / high mcap crypto, it’s not going anywhere

zizzooo

I see ,below 1000 bottom for ETH

7862518362916371936

Yeah but BTC good, and ETH bad.

BlazedAndConfused

For ETH maybe but not the hundreds of other coins that were once in the Top 100 or even Top 10 since inception. Many used to be popular and died. ETH is t above that fate

AlphadeltaVII

I think Bitcoin goes to 25-30k before we head up again for the next bull. If we do, ETH will definitely hit sub 1k. I think once we reach 40k on BTC, ETH will hit 1k

cognitiveDiscontents

I don’t see how people look at ETH and BTC over this last cycle and choose ETH. It crashes harder and barely even got its ATH from 2021 this cycle. I sold all mine and replaced it with BTC years ago.

_Commando_

> Did you know that ETH has had about half the inflation of BTC I know all about that - https://ultrasound.money/

_Commando_

> none have as good tokenomics The issue with ETH tokenomics is that it's an unlimited supply coin. It will always inflate and the so called burn mechanism introduced was only a "mask the problem", never a solution. If anything it stole the wealth from node operators that provided the service for L1. To make matters worse the L2's have stolen even more wealth from L1 but Vitalik saw this too late and now they're trying to back track what they've done with L2's because they realized the big mistake of all the value and profits went to L2 leaving L1 barebone. After seeing all the FUD against Cardano, I have made the decision to split my next investment straight to BTC and ADA moving forward. I've been using, supporting, mining and then staking ETH for a long time now ever since it's been at $5. Haven't decided on the % split how much for BTC vs ADA to invest in but BTC the big daddy king will most definitely get the lion share. ADA to me looks like a great opportunity to get into now as was ETH at $5. Also ADA has a limited supply so their tokenomics is better vs ETH and a proven track record just as much if actually a better track record then ETH if you take into account the prior ETC/ETH debacle and a number of ETH bridge hacks that occurred. o7

_Commando_

> You realize BTC is the same price today as it waa 5 years ago. BTC went from 15k to 126K making a new ATH 2x it's prior cycle, while ETH just kissed it's prior ATH cycle, there is a big difference with the value of ETH we've all seen now...

Akanan

oh you let me use some cryptobro astrology terms for that: Alt season, CYCLE my favorite, BTC/ETH ratio. lol. This industry is like religion, there is always the herd in search of an answer for everything that happens, and it turns into wack explanations to comfort the believers.

ConsciousSkyy

I don’t think so. It has the same revenue problem as ETH

refraxion

Congratulations ETH holders! Regards, \- Ethereum Foundation \- Vitalik Buterin

MinimalGravitas

> ETH is lacking development because it can't scale. Ethereum has more developers working in it's L1 ecosystem than the next 4 biggest crypto developer communities combined... * **Ethereum: 8,100** * Solana: 2,570 * Bitcoin: 2,460 * Stellar: 1,510 * Polygon: 1,300 > Layer 2 is big failure The Layer 2 ecosystem hit a peak of 29,845 TPS today... that isn't the all-time-high, which was 75,862... it's just a random Saturday. Not bad for an ecosystem that can't scale?

Harfatum

Did you know that ETH has had **half** the average inflation of BTC over the last five years? BTC annualizes to 1.35% but ETH to 0.75%. BTC supply meme is a strong meme, but it is just a meme. People buy BTC thinking it has the best monetary properties without looking into the actual details. Including ignoring the security budget trending to zero. Gonna be a clusterfuck when they have to increase inflation or there's a big double-spend. Look it up.

Miltank12345

This. ETH is lacking development because it can't scale. Layer 2 is big failure

AlphadeltaVII

It’ll take many more months till we start forming some accumulation bottoming pattern, just keep watching the charts, the news, and get in whenever the time is right. Based on my analysis I could see Bitcoin go as low as $25-30k before fueling up again for the next bull — This would also mean ETH drops below $1k which will be a great investment long term nontheless. Both of these assets are not topped yet, they’ll go for new ATH’s whenever the time is right. It’s always been like this. Just let the bear play out first. Stay patient.

Solid-Individual-913

The irony that you find this normal shows how this is just blissful ignorance. Vitalik could quit and you would be like yea, totally normal. Project is healthy. He needed a good life. The developers that dedicated years of work to make it happen have been saying for years that the chain is too complicated and near damn impossible to work. But the ones that stayed kept trying to make it happen. Now they are leaving too. And you don't see the crisis just to justify that line goes up. What a ridiculous position to take. With how complicated ETH has become, it is more critical than ever to retain talent that knows the inner workings of the chain but they know what s happening and they see greener pastures somewhere else. But all that goes over your head. At least we have Aya Miyaguchi right? The community hated her but Vitalik said Milady. What a joke.

Harfatum

People on the internet complain when the EF sells ETH to pay staff. People complain when the EF trims headcount so they can sell less ETH/year to pay staff. Remember they only have like 0.16% of the supply. I am aware of all the big names, I follow them on Twitter. Someone leaving the EF to work in the ecosystem is not a loss. Sure there have been a couple disappointments but you can say this about any project ever that survives 10+ years.

Solid-Individual-913

good thing ETH isn't centralized to Vitalik right? Like when the community made a shitshow about Aya Miyaguchi and he said big dick energy suck it guys. Milady. The OGs from the EF have mostly moved on to bigger better things. But it sounds like you wouldn't have a clue about Tim Beiko and his impact for example. Or Tomas Stanczak. Line goes up right? but who makes it happen? I dont think most of you clowns are serious or even have any clue what the fuck you are talking about

Harfatum

I'm not aware of any that come close. Sure, some are faster and cheaper, but if you can send ETH or lend on AAVE for a few cents or less does it matter? We're dealing with value, we want uptime and security. Or why not use MegaETH if you really need speed, then you can inherit some security from Ethereum and have even faster execution than whatever the flavor of the month alt-L1 is

GiveInsteadOfTaking

Are there any projects that come close to ETH or could even be better?

Longjumping-Low3164

Take a look how many projects failed on ETH chain in past decade and draw conclusions.

MinimalGravitas

> What projects on ETH chain are successful? Blackrock's first tokenization project 'BUIDL' launched with $100M worth of tokenized treasuries on Ethereum, it has grown to over $800M: https://etherscan.io/token/0x6a9DA2D710BB9B700acde7Cb81F10F1fF8C89041#code It has been so successful that Larry Fink was speaking at Davos this year about the benefits of moving the entire financial system onto 'one common blockchain': https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-wants-the-entire-financial-system-on-one-common-blockchain/ Since then Blackrock have announced 2 more Ethereum based RWA projects.

_Commando_

I've learnt the hard way that ETH isn't the only sucessful L1 project out there. Sold and bought ADA.

_Commando_

After holding ETH for 5 yesrs only for it to be at same or lower value is a turn off. Lost value in 5 yrs due to inflation. Now we know why big daddy BTC is king.

FunWithSkooma

ETH is just something you buy to move usdc/usdt on eth network lmao

aimhigh7shootlow8

Thats what I'm seeing ETH is finishing Wave 4 of the macro cycle and Wave 5 up is the next major move — potentially into $5,000–$8,000+ range long-term.

aimhigh7shootlow8

ETH is in Wave 4 macro / Wave 5 micro — the final flush before the macro Wave 5 setup. This fits your playbook perfectly: accumulation zone, not entry yet. Wait for the short-term bearish Wave 5 to complete ($1,545–$1,798 zone), confirm reversal structure, then size in for the macro Wave 5 launch. Your SPY Wave 2 correction trigger lines up directly with ETH bottoming in this zone. $1,384 is the deeper macro invalidation — below that, key price levels at $883 and $356 become relevant for eliminating bullish wave count scenarios entirely.

ConsciousSkyy

Shorted at $2k. Practically free money. ETH is still overvalued and will lose number 2 spot to chains that make actual revenue. Not closing my short yet.

Odd-Macaroon-9528

Just buy if you really believe in the Technology. I don’t so I own different crypto. Do if Price is down is still sleep well if I think the tech is proper. Couldn’t do so with ETH in my portfolio

Longjumping-Low3164

You are fool if you buy ETH. What projects on ETH chain are successful? Its been 10+ years. Its a failure.

Harfatum

Thanks for sharing this. Ethereum is really the only project in existence that can become civilizational-level infrastructure - the home of most value, ownership, and identity planetwide. Watching what's happening with asset tokenization like what Blackrock is doing, it seems like this is a likely path. It's also a perfect home for zk tech, enabling the "right amount" of privacy. Reveal what you want to, keep what you don't. The base layer is now cheap due to scaling efforts, and L2s are even cheaper, so that knock on it is basically over. The tokenomics of ETH are in my opinion the best in the market. Lower value leak due to not having to subsidize miners, low inflation which can go negative in periods of high demand, the advantage of having used PoW to distribute a good quantity of ETH, and a foundation that holds only 1/6 of a percent of the supply instead of the mid-double-digits that some projects have.

50sat

The responses here are hilarious. Frankly, just dropped half my stack of paper for gold as ETH touches it's long-term bottom again. Fingers crossed it's time.

HoldCtrlW

Easy ETH short here going lower. I kept saying it for months. I am already up $40 easy money

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ubermensch1001

We haven't seen the alts unwind like the way they are now since COVID 2020. Alts late 2022 were still actually quite strong compared to BTC, it took almost another 2 years for them to bottom out against BTC and ETH didn't even drop below .02 to BTC until April 2025.

popoppopcorn

Yes, crypto is in bit of a rut comparatively, but this exact same argument was used last year against ETH and then it rallied. Of course past performance does not equal future performance, but either you get out of crypto believing it's completely shit or you buy ETH now and grab a 3x. If you are going to fail with timing, are you more likely to fail at 4500 or at 1500? Of course THIS TIME it could be different, but that is said every time.

Available_Win5204

I started buying more ETH at these levels. It seems more like ETH will be useful going forward and the market is waking up to the fact that BTC isn't useful or valuable. Much of the trading is automated so ETH suffers when BTC dumps, so it's creating a good buying opportunity.

shoecellar

Follow this up in reverse for sell time. Also watch closely to the ETF capital rotation. ETH already went back positive inflow

cizmainbascula

Never had any interest in ETH so I’m not up to date but wasn’t it trading sideways at 2-4k for like half a decade lol? Each to its own

Groves450

Well the fact that one year later is exactly at the same spot is kind of evidence that it is not a good investment right? Unless you are a day trader or perfectly timed the market. Another way to look, if you bought ETH in the last 12 months, best case scenario you are even. Most people would have lost half or more. Compare to any other investment or inflation it is horrible. The second problem is that even the long term trend looks awful also. If you look the last 2, 3 or 5 years return they are also awful. How do you convince someone new to invest in ETH? If no new money, well, its done. The grin reality is that unless you were an early entrant (pre covid) or you were insanely lucky on timing no one is making money on crypto.

No-Track8005

im buying BTC ETH and HBAR

brandonholm

I wouldn’t want to be holding ETH or SOL either. Both are downward trends against Bitcoin since their initial pump. They also don’t really offer anything actually useful.

brandonholm

I wouldn’t want to be holding ETH or SOL either. Both are downward trends against Bitcoin since their initial pump.

Friendly-Direction42

ETH went down harder my LINK outperformed also over the long term and did ok against BTC that is more the thought behind this, BONK was not a hard choice dumped it immediately

MinimalGravitas

Just in the last month we've seen new projects built on Ethereum by Fidelity and Blackrock as well as JPMorgan. Have you seen the full list of institutions building on Ethereum and its ecosystem? https://ethereumadoption.com/built-on-ethereum/ In the short term price is entirely unpredictable, powerful players from bitcoin maxis to VC chain influencers are financially incentivized to manipulate investors into not noticing that Ethereum is becoming the backbone of the future financial system, or to believe that this happening won't impact ETH price... ... but in the long term I have zero concerns for the price of the asset. At some point the dominance of adoption will simply be undeniable, and the value of ETH will reflect that.

ubermensch1001

I wouldn't bother splitting that into ETH, just put it all into Bitcoin. I would keep the link at this point and Bonk goes all in on BTC.

Friendly-Direction42

Yes I figured converting eth is way to late now and it does have a higher low pattern so the chart is not that bad. I will keep BTC, ETH and SOL as the risk asset for faster recovery and LINK/BONK will be split in BTC ETH

SimpleMoonFarmer

Out of BTC, any crypto may never reach ATH again. ETH is the most likely IMHO, but it may go to zero (it's possible), and so it may any other crypto, with a greater likelihood. TBH, as an investment, a Blockchain-related ETF looks better than any shitcoin, and it is a matter of opinion if Solana or Polygon are shitcoins. Paradoxically, I see more potential resilience in CEX coins (BNB, CRO,…) than in most shitcoins, just like I see more upside in Coinbase than in Solana, Polygon, Dogecoin,… The tech will stay. Incumbent companies will probably stay. Specific implementations (blockchains) and coins,… time will tell.

sendmeetherplease

These are the same morons who complain about volatility, I love it. Easy to swing trade ETH and BTC. Volatility is a bonus in crypto.

Friendly-Direction42

Maybe BTC ETH SOL for now, And LINK and BONK to BTC already. Will definitely go BTC max and stocks from now on

QuietPsychological72

The real question is where ETH bottoms relative to BTC. If it’s a lower low then ETH is finished. Even if wall street does adopt it like Tom Lee says it won’t ever make you reach. If ETH makes a higher low against BTC then it’s worth buying some.

ubermensch1001

I think it's a decent alt to continue to hold but I think there is a case to be made where you could also convert that into BTC. At best, I think ETH could outperform BTC by maybe a 2.5x from here, which really isn't all that substantial in my opinion. Considering you have positions in LINK and SOL, if you wanted to do this I think it would be a good idea. Those have substantially lower market caps and could potentially make huge returns from here, compared to both ETH and BTC. However, considering you have a smaller portfolio I could see just continuing to hold the ETH. I would also say just increase your income and invest that into your BTC stack, based on what you've mentioned this would be super easy. Go pick up a couple shifts delivering pizza on the weekend, super easy money.

CaptainK718

ETH will be okay. 2027-2028 will be $5,000-6,000.

Active-Rope9301

Prices like these test conviction. If you truly believe crypto will have an irreplaceable position in global finance in a few years, $1,500 is a steal. If you think it’s underperforming and macro flows won’t save it ‘cause everyone’s more interested in AI nowadays, this is the beginning of the end. I personally think ETH is a steal here if you have a 5-year runway for holding.

GoldenEgg_Sol

ETH will be 15k by 2027-28

Active-Rope9301

Obviously if you compare it to the traditional definition, that’s more for companies like Apple, Microsoft, etc. I don’t mean any crypto stock is an actual equivalent to traditional blue chips. I mean they’re blue chips by crypto standards. The asset class is insanely risky and frequently fraudulent. BTC/ETH/SOL/HYPE are risky, but not fraudulent and they have real world uses.

Pineapple-Juice-4

Buying ETH right now looks about as safe as swimming in a pool with Jaws

ilfollevolo

1,500 is the right price. Gives room for games and fun without inflating the ego of ETH doom maxers

Calm_Situation_1131

The rise of BTC to $120k was a fluke due to Strategy buying massive amounts of BTC by abusing index inclusion rules to print shares and force passive index funds to buy them. Now that the rules have changed, this isn't possible anymore. In fact, MSTR might get bumped out of the MSCI global index by EOY, which would cause forced selling of MSTR. Every run up in the past was overvalued based on memes and hype. Considering useful crypto (ETH) has run up from ~$0.50 to $1500 in about a decade, I'd say that's more than appropriately priced.

Simon-Says-2015

Why would it be once in a decade Buying opt, if ETH was 1340 last year. Oh god, i hate these idiot questions.

popoppopcorn

I remember the absolute doom and gloom last year when it was 1500 and everyone on these crypto subreddits and on X said it was so fucking over for ETH, then it rallied to 4500+ again for the easiest 3x in your life. So whether it goes down to 700 or whatever. It will surely rise again and people will look back at missing the easiest gains in their life again.

After_Club6421

It is the pet rock, the tulip market, and the real estate bubble x2 (because there is no actual real estate). I own a bit of HODL and ETH just in case I’m wrong but I expect it to be worth Pennie’s on the dollar at some point

Heycheckthisout20

ETH is a shitcoin and will always be a shitcoin

random5654

ETH will bounce back. The vast majority of the other alts/shitcoins will not.

JohnnyStrides

I’d agree if they were selling BTC, but alts are a different story. We never got a real alt-season after the last BTC ATH, and at this point I think the whole concept is mostly dead. Sure, alts will bounce with BTC, but even ETH and XRP have spent a lot of time looking more like legacy baggage than "blue chips".

JohnnyStrides

I went from 20+ shitcoins 10 years ago with some BTC to BTC/ETH/XRP to somehow BTC/ETH/SOL and now it's BTC/ETH and I've been waiting for the right ratio to swap ETH into BTC but given what a dog ETH is over long periods that ship has probably sailed.

JohnnyStrides

Bonds aren’t risk-free, they’re just excitement-free. After inflation and taxes, that ‘double’ return can disappear pretty fast. I'd rather put $ into equities (or BTC/ETH) any day... unless the money is guaranteed to be needed within a few years bonds = giant yawn.

CalligrapherAlive829

Once in a decade? It’s seen this price a multitude of times in the last 4 years. ETH isn’t crypto, ETH can become a stablecoin and the industry can still grow. It’s already been acting that way for years now.

Friendly-Direction42

Now ETH SOL and LINK is degenerate gambling? Please stfu and leave this fking sub you are the type of person to see these as solid investments when they were high

Educational_Cable405

Honest take, if you actually have the full 32 then dumping it into Lido or a CEX kind of defeats the point. 32 is the magic number precisely because you can run your own validator with no counterparty risk. Lido is already sitting around 30% of all staked ETH which is a real centralization problem, no reason to keep feeding it when you don't have to. The whole appeal of having a clean 32 is not needing anyone else.

EarningsPal

Huge hidden loss even if someone is up because 6 years of stock growth was missed hold g on to ETH. Waiting. Aging. For no gain an probably a loss.

MarduckRulez

For real. My savings is sitting at 3.75% if it dropped to 2.8% I might think about investing a tiny fraction in ETH, just for shits n giggles.

Ruzhyo04

Miners are forced sellers. Structurally building sell pressure into your security model that requires prices to go up is… not optimal. Staking better aligns ecosystem incentives with security. And Ethereum has DeFi and actual use cases while BTC doesn’t. I can use ETH to register an ENS name, use it as collateral in a trustless loan, trade it for rETH and earn a passive yield like savings. It’s the most used currency in NFT trades. So it has a real-world anchor.

Conscious-Opposite88

Already a year ago I mentioned that ETH would go to 1500 in the new year, no one believed it, I got a lot of negative comments, I got banned from the ETHI group because I dared to write ⭐⭐⭐

ConsciousSkyy

Add many more to that list, ETH included

Friendly-Direction42

Will probably drop bonk for btc and split my link in BTC and ETH, my SOL holding is already enough

Ruzhyo04

Commonly held wrong belief. Nodes and validators are separate things. No ETH needed to run a node. Validators play the role miners do in BTC. And it actually costs less to build a block on Ethereum than it does on Bitcoin. And if you compare mining pools to validators, mining pools are far more centralized.

ConsciousSkyy

Joe Lubin desperately trying to keep his ETH loans from liquidating is too funny. https://x.com/\_nikolajankovic/status/2063182099574587412?s=46

ReblWithoutApplause

So if they have 32ETH, that’s about 50,000. Earning 1ETH a year at current price is $1550. Even if it were 4,000 a token, isn’t that still low?

xomox2012

Agreed. Alt coins are severely hampered. It was already a stretch that they had real value anyways as for the most part blockchain isn’t needed to solve the problems they were proposed as solutions for. Databases exist and can do what a bc ledger does far cheaper when it comes to most chain use cases. As for a store of value, ETH and BTC are already theoretically there and are simply in the process of deterring which model is ideal. Blockchain doesn’t have merit outside of the purpose of BTC / ETH

Ok_Freedom3290

The anxiety of catching a falling knife is real, but looking at ETH through the lens of macro asset flow helps clarify the picture. When the broader market undergoes a massive liquidity flush (like we saw on Friday with the NFP yield spike and tech correction), crypto assets are sold off aggressively simply because they are the easiest to liquidate for margin calls, regardless of their underlying utility. Whether ETH at 1500 is a buying opportunity or a trap depends on your investment horizon. For a multi-year hold, buying when fear is at an extreme (fear and greed at 12) historically yields high asymmetry. However, if you are looking for a quick rebound, you have to watch the macro recovery signals first, particularly how the VIX behaves and whether yields stabilize. We track these exact liquidity, macro, and sentiment indicators in real-time, and you can see our free signal views at [https://alphasignal.digital](https://alphasignal.digital/) which I built.

mrjune2040

Compounding interest over 5-10 years under the assumption that you're holding a growth asset over time (ie we're not talking about a safe APR on cash/bonds so it's a poor comparision)—stake 100 and over 5 years you have an extra 13 ETH and 28ETH over 10 (adjusting for declining APR). I think comments like these assume that his is some kind of singular position, rather than just being one in a basket of assets (as OP seems to also indicate). I have more than OP staking but I'm also holding at an ETH cost basis under $10, but it's just one of many assets I'm holding (the majority non-crypto obviously).

xomox2012

Yeah alts haven’t really ever had a purpose in most cases. They were solutions without existing problems that already had non blockchain solutions. Blockchain technology doesn’t need to do everything especially when databases do it better in the sense of business transactions. Blockchain does digital gold exceedingly well and that is the only real viable solution for it. Ie BTC and ETH with monero as a maybe if privacy is the concern.

jwz9904

that's a $600 ETH then.

The_Vibe_is_Eternal

Pretty likely it goes to around 1k or lower. That’s where I will start accumulating. I think next bull market might absolutely rip as opposed to this previous lack luster bull market. I think ETH could reach its 1.618 fib extension around $8k. So a 5-8k or so exit from buying at around 1k

mistercheez2000

I see the most use case in ETH (still) and SOL I don't know much about the others

Tyszq

The best option is to use a non-custodial server provider, such as Allnodes. It makes absolutely no sense to use Lido or Rocket Pool, as others might suggest. The only reason they exist is to allow people with less than 32 ETH to participate in staking, and the trade-off is additional risk.

account009988

Tom Lee says ETH to 75K

Notyours_Jaxk

For the simplest option, stake your ETH through Lido or Rocket Pool. You’ll earn staking rewards and can sell your staked ETH token anytime without waiting for the validator exit queue. If you prioritize maximum decentralization, you can run your own validator using 32 ETH. However, unstaking may involve a waiting period.

Repulsive_Profit1204

You can’t avoid the unstake delay with native ETH staking, it’s built into the protocol.

SimpleMoonFarmer

The entirety of the financial sector will be tokenized. Today a financial sector that uses paper and not computers or the Internet would be unthinkable. Some day, a financial sector that doesn't run on the blockchain will be unthinkable. It will take generations. It may use very different blockchains instead of the ones we know today. But it was the future, and it still is. There are ups and lows, the sentiment changes, the price changes. That's the way markets work. Crypto is newer, more uncertain, more volatile. It will go up again. It has value, it has use cases. The lows are buying opportunities. If this is a real low in sentiment terms, this is a huge buying opportunity. Some people feared an AI winter in 2016, they were wrong. Some people think no new ATHs will be reached by BTC. I think they are wrong. Polygon (which you mention) may not see new ATHs, so did some companies after the dot com bubble, but the blockchain will continue, and I find very hard to think about a world where the blockchain gets more use and relevance and BTC (even ETH) does not reach new ATHs.

Fit-Maybe9390

Running your own validator is pretty technical stuff and yeah, there's always gonna be withdrawal delays with ETH staking - that's just how the protocol works 🤷‍♂️ Maybe look at liquid staking options if you want more flexibility but still want those rewards 💰

Glass_Look_959

Forget those worthless charts and metrics. It is almost a done deal that the Clarity Act will not pass. The part about ethics will not be accepted by the Fuhrer. ETH got a huge jump last summer when it looked like Fuhrer Trump will get it passed. Continue buying puts on the ETFs. Soon we will see 1k