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The size is the problem more than the protocol. Split it and TWAP — no single-block route survives 'large amounts' without the dynamic fee spiking. Benchmark each chunk against a CEX quote on ETH/BTC; if your decentralized route is >0.5% worse you're donating to arb bots. And given the [Switcher.finance](http://Switcher.finance) scam thread here last week: only use routes where you can verify the contract yourself, not web frontends recommended in comments.

1. You're asking this on a heavily biased ETH sub
2. Outside of this sub, what the market actually cares about these days is **buybacks + sustainable revenue.** ETH doesn't have either of those, and it aint money like BTC. Where does that leave it?

Hi all, i'm looking to swap some ETH into BTC, since i'm moving large amounts i'm wondering what protocol has the lowest fees/slippage, thorswap seems to have upgraded their fees as their UX shows as \~2.6% slippage. which is non-sense. i wanna do it in a decentralized way.

What protocol has the lowest fees/slippage that's worth using in 2026? Please leave a comment.

Unrelated to ETH but the party in Madrid last night was epic. In related news, I'm mildly hungover.

ETH financial boys will go crazy after reading this.

10 years ago today, ETH forked away from the original chain to undo the DAO hack. The chain that refused is Ethereum Classic.

the price-didn't-follow is the key signal for me as a trader. corporate demand at the register, but large wallets net depositing to exchanges simultaneously - that's supply meeting demand, or just distribution into the narrative.
ETF net outflow confirms it. retail selling while corporates buy = net effect on spot is muted. been watching ETH fail $1,879 multiple times this week and the tape keeps agreeing - buyers exist, just not above that level.
the concentration point is underrated. if BitMine drives most of the ether treasury flow, that demand is only as durable as BITM's premium over NAV. premium compresses, the buyback logic reverses.
good research. what are you using for the on-chain net depositor flag - that's the signal i'd want in real time.

Are BTC and ETH dead?

Number two doesn’t happen on Solana, only ETH.
Solana transactions require a recent block hash to be included when signed. If it’s too old, validators will reject it.
The time is 60 slots or so, a slot being \~400ms.

Depends on what you’re holding, but general rule: Coinbase/Robinhood are custodial — they hold your keys, not you. Fine for buying, but not really “your” crypto until it’s off there.
For a beginner-friendly non-custodial wallet: MetaMask (great if you’re mostly in ETH/EVM chains) or Trust Wallet (supports way more chains, decent UI, good starting point if you’re not sure what you’ll end up holding).
If you ever get into bigger amounts, a hardware wallet (Ledger is the most common one) is worth it — keeps your keys fully offline.

As there are better alternatives and BTC/ETH fail to innovate, it's hard to allocate funds towards them. So it's only traders and NGU people who try to make money but builders are moving elsewhere. So less dead but more slowly dying.

Thanks for sharing! So you mean the architectures of BTC and ETH are fixed now. Could their developers update or scale them for better use?

Why do people keep asking if BTC and ETH are dead?

the same mf bought ETH at 4k ?

Gas is always paid in ETH, never in the token you're sending. LINK lives on Ethereum, so moving it needs ETH sitting in that same wallet to cover the network fee, even though LINK itself has value, it can't pay for its own gas.

Check your real balance on Etherscan. Copy your wallet address from Cake, paste it into etherscan.io, and confirm exactly how much ETH is actually in that address (not just what Cake shows).

Check the live gas cost. Etherscan has a "Gas Tracker" page that'll show you what an ERC-20 transfer actually costs right now, in real time. Compare that to your confirmed ETH balance.

If ETH is short, top it up in the exact same address. Send a small amount $5 or 10 to be safe from an exchange or another wallet, directly to that Cake Wallet address. Then retry the LINK transfer.
If your ETH balance is genuinely enough and it's still failing, that points to something wallet-specific rather than a funds issue worth trying to import into MetaMask via your seed phrase, done privately, never shared with anyone to see if it goes through there.
One last thing, you're gonna get DMs offering to "help" now that this is posted. Don't share your seed phrase or private key with anyone, ever, no matter how legit they sound. Everything above you can do yourself

Same guy calling for ETH 10k last year?

It's a cheap meme coin with a strong community behind it, which from my understanding, the community runs it. I hold, and will continue to. I dropped a few bucks into D*G* in '18, and was holding millions. Unfortunately, times get hard, no real progression, and I got my few dollars back to put into EOS. I'm so smart. But I was a nood, and had started with crypto in '17 and had zero idea what I should do. Years later, my few dollars in the D word would be worth hundreds of thousands if not millions. Meme coins are your real gain potential. Yes, you're likely to lose on 9 out of 10, but the one that comes through is the only one that matters. So as long as SHIB drops, I'm buying, only due to the fact that a few bucks gets plenty. If I lose, I lose. My staked ETH more than makes up for any lose in SHIB. We run it, and we make things happen. And as low as it is now, candybar money could be worth enough to buy a convenient store. If not, it's a few bucks. I think too many people are getting the fear, and are going to miss out. This could be the next D word, and we don't need Elon to do it.

>**Contracts between us,**
>**Stables heterogeneous,**
>**One year in GENIOUS.**
~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

Fair point on tranches smoothing the path in — but if the tranche weights come from a vol/corr risk matrix, the re-entry signal is still symmetric volatility under the hood; tranching changes the step size, not the signal. Quick way to see it: measure time-to-full-weight after each drawdown bottom vs what the asset did in those weeks. If the matrix is vol-driven, you'll find the slowest re-entries sit exactly at the best re-entry points.
On the rolling split — that's the right structure inside. The catch is one level up: if BTC/ETH/XRP won by comparing full-period walk-forward results across many combos, the pick is still in-sample at the meta level. The half-split test applies there: choose the combo using only first-half results, then report the untouched second half. Still genuinely curious what that shows.
I'll keep it in the thread — more useful to others than DMs.

I do not see value in ETH. I see value only in Bitcoin. How can a platform that generates endless list of useless projects or scams be worth of hundreds of billions of USD?