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# As all ETH holders know, bear markets are where long-term positioning gets built or destroyed. But even if you know this intellectually, you might still squander the opportunity in one of the following ways.
**1) Rotating Into Everything But ETH**
“ETH is underperforming BTC again, maybe I should just go all in on SOL/BNB/whatever chain is hot this week.”
If this sounds familiar, read carefully. Ethereum bear markets produce some of the loudest “ETH killer” narratives precisely because alternative chains outperform during risk-off periods when ETH bleeds hardest. The pattern repeats every cycle. New chain gets traction, ETH dominance drops, everyone declares Ethereum dead, ETH recovers and outperforms everything on the way back up.
The trap isn’t believing ETH could lose long term. It’s confusing cyclical underperformance with structural failure. ETH has more developer activity, more total value locked, more institutional infrastructure (ETF inflows, staking products, tokenized assets), and more application diversity than any alternative. Robinhood just launched an L2 on Arbitrum. Stripe is building stablecoin infrastructure. Anoma’s cross-chain coordination adapter is live across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism simultaneously. None of this is happening on chains people are rotating into during bear markets.
Bear markets are when you accumulate the asset with the most infrastructure momentum, not the one with the best recent price performance. Those are almost always different assets.
**2) Staking Everything Immediately at the Bottom**
If your plan is to stake every ETH you acquire the moment you buy it, you’re making a subtle but expensive mistake.
Staking ETH is genuinely compelling. Validator rewards, liquid staking through Lido or Rocket Pool, restaking through EigenLayer creating additional yield layers. The yield narrative is real and the compounding effects over a bear market are meaningful.
But here’s what you’re missing: unstaked ETH during a bear market is optionality on volatility. When ETH drops 40% unexpectedly, you want dry powder to accumulate at panic prices. When a major protocol launches or a significant infrastructure development lands (like Anoma enabling atomic cross-chain coordination across all major EVM chains, or Robinhood bringing millions of retail investors into the Arbitrum ecosystem directly), having unstaked ETH means you can act on information immediately rather than waiting for unstaking queues.
The optimal strategy is staged staking. Stake a defined percentage for yield immediately. Keep a reserve of liquid ETH for opportunistic accumulation during genuine panic events. The yield you sacrifice on the reserve is cheap insurance for being able to act when the market gives you exceptional opportunities.
**3) Waiting for “Ethereum 2.0 to Finally Be Done”**
Let’s be clear: the “Ethereum is always upgrading and never finished” critique has some historical basis but is increasingly detached from current reality.
The Merge happened. EIP-4844 shipped making L2 transactions dramatically cheaper. The roadmap toward full danksharding is progressing with clear milestones. L2 ecosystems built on Ethereum are processing real volume at real scale right now. Base doing 100M+ transactions monthly at sub-cent costs. Arbitrum running Rust smart contracts through Stylus with 100x better computational efficiency than EVM. Intent protocols coordinating atomic cross-chain settlement across the entire ecosystem.
Waiting for Ethereum to be “finished” before accumulating is the same as waiting for the internet to be finished before buying Amazon in 2001. The infrastructure is operational and handling real economic activity now. The future upgrades are optimization, not prerequisite. Applications being built today on current Ethereum infrastructure are generating real value for real users.
The correct approach combines all three insights. Accumulate ETH systematically without rotating into narrative-driven alternatives. Keep meaningful liquid reserves rather than staking everything immediately. Recognize that Ethereum’s infrastructure is functional now and compounding improvements make waiting increasingly expensive.
Bear markets are when the next cycle’s positioning gets determined. The Ethereum infrastructure developments happening right now, traditional finance onboarding through Arbitrum, stablecoin payment infrastructure through Stripe, cross-chain coordination through intent protocols like Anoma, all of this is being built during the exact period when most people are either panicking out or waiting on the sidelines.
*Your spare cash during an Ethereum bear market is a call option on infrastructure that’s quietly becoming more capable and more integrated with traditional finance every week. Exercise it thoughtfully.*

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