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Europe has decent options, ETH Zurich's MSc in Quantitative Finance is strong, and TU Munich got a mathematical finance program that places well. Netherlands also worth a look, Amsterdam and Rotterdam both run respected quant finance tracks.

you're selling someone else's ETH and paying a borrow fee in the process. This makes no sense at all. Sell your own eth if you want to sell eth for cash. If you don't want to sell eth for cash, then borrow some asset you think will go down and sell that for cash instead. Borrowing an asset, selling it for cash, and possibly rebuying it later (hopefully for cheaper) is called shorting. That's how you short something. If you're depositing eth, and then shorting eth, it's the same as selling your own eth, except you're paying a high borrow fee when you don't need to.

For actual spending yeah, nobody wants to pay for coffee in something that can swing 8% while the tx confirms. ETH earns its keep as the collateral and gas asset underneath, USDC on Base already does the payment job people keep asking ETH to do

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Short version: with a USDC loan against ETH you can't remove liquidation risk, you can only push it far enough away that it would take a crash you've already planned for 🙂 How I'd think about it: - Size from the crash, not the current price. Pick the ETH price you'd want to survive (a lot lower than "can't go much lower", since every cycle has had someone saying that), then work backwards to the max you borrow. On Aave the health factor gives you that liquidation price directly, so treat it as the number that matters. - Keep a repayment buffer outside the loan. Some stables or spare ETH sitting ready lets you top up collateral or pay down debt during a fast move instead of watching a liquidation bot do it for you. - Set alerts well above the liquidation level, and remember gas spikes and congested blocks during crashes are exactly when topping up gets harder. - Borrowing ETH against ETH and selling it is basically a short on ETH funded by your own stack. If ETH rips, your debt grows in dollar terms, which is the opposite of what a long-term holder wants. On Alchemix: the self-repaying model is real and has been around for years. The trade-off is why it isn't bigger. You only get to borrow a fraction of what you deposit, the loan pays itself down only as fast as the underlying yield (slow when yields are low), and the debt is a synthetic token like alETH or alUSD, so you carry depeg and smart contract risk on top. The upside is that your debt is in the same asset as your collateral, so a price drop alone doesn't liquidate you the way an ETH/USDC position can. So for "hold forever and still access cash", I'd lean toward a smaller stablecoin borrow with a big buffer over max borrowing anywhere. Less cash up front, but you keep the stack through the next drawdown 👀

Sorry this happened. The unlimited USDC approval from Oct 22 is the first thing to look at. An approval lets the approved contract move that token with transferFrom at any time, with no new signature or biometric prompt, because the permission already sits on chain. The part that does not fit a pure allowance drain is the SOL and ETH gas leaving at the same time: when someone else calls transferFrom they pay the gas, so gas taken from your wallet suggests a transaction was sent from your own address. That makes it worth treating the seed or device as exposed. Steps that help now: open the drain TxID on a block explorer and check which address actually sent the call. Check the token approvals for your address and revoke every unlimited allowance, USDC first. Move anything left to a fresh wallet with a new seed created on a clean device. Keep the TxID, timestamps and the state log together for the support ticket, and file a report with your local cybercrime unit, since funds that land on an exchange can sometimes be frozen. Going forward, approve the exact amount you plan to spend instead of unlimited.

I do not want to sell my ETH. I want to keep it forever because ETH will never be this cheap again

Collateralizing ETH and borrowing ETH almost eliminates liquidation risks and it allows you to access all of your ETH collateral rather than whatever you could borrow with USDC

I am interested in accumulating and keeping as much crypto as possible. (I would like to hold BTC and ETH indefinitely without selling). What would be the best way to access the cash for these assets without selling them? I particularly want to eliminate the potential for liquidation risks but still borrow as much as possible. Right now, I have a collateralized ETH loan on AAVE where I am borrowing USDC. I am okay with doing this because I don't think ETH can go much lower and therefore my risk of liquidation is also low. If I put ETH as collateral and borrowed ETH, then I sold the borrowed ETH, I am essentially selling someone else's ETH and keeping mine, which is good. But if ETH goes higher, the loan becomes harder to pay back. If I continue borrowing USDC against my ETH at the top of a bull market, I am consistently exposed to liquidation risks or I would be forced to borrow only a very safe amount of USDC. I looked into Alchemix self repaying loans and I don't know why that isn't more popular. Are Alchemix loans legit?

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Buy the rumours sell the news, i efterhandeln faller den nästan 4% för vinsthemtagningar, frågan är hur ETH utvecklar sig fram till öppning.

If anything it's a selling point for ETH and BTC, and a huge reason to never use stablecoins. They can be stolen arbitrarily by government or the issuer.

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Every single day since mid 2024 when I converted everything I had as shitcoins (including ETH, BTC, and a lot of smaller ones) to XMR has been the best decision of my life. The only true crypto, not on CEX, witchunt against it nonstop and still 4x while Bitcoin halved.... Wake up people, most of you who think they buy a fungible, untraceable CRYPTO when buying BTC realize eventually that it is exactly the opposite... Just ask yourself the question, why every government is afraid of it? Because it is what BTC originally wanted to be Satoshi just could not solve the fungibility with untraceable ways yet.

Every time "10k" is written in this sub, ETH will Crab for another day. Meaning, unfortunately, that there are millions of years of Crab in our future.

it defies all logic, but yes I think BTC has an excellent chance of hitting 250k between now and 2030. if it is shown to have quantum or other security problems then of course it will crash and hopefully never return, but otherwise that ship of fools sails on and ETH continues to build a widely used global finance network.

>**Post Quantum belayed,** >**ECDSA decayed,** >**Hegota delayed.** ~Daily haiku until we’re at least at 0.178 on the ETH/BTC ratio or highest market cap

lmao if you actually understand Ethereum you know ETH is going **way** beyond $10k. Ethereum has practically no competition. ETH will inherit the majority of the mcap of BTC and then go way beyond it. ETH at BTC's mcap is already beyond 10k and BTC is useless, insecure and destined for failure. ETH was \~5k last year. 10k could come in a few weeks and it wouldn't even be weird for crypto.

The price reflects the interest is talking daily about ETH. It’s dead because the price sucks and if/when it runs this thread floods with comments

The issue is, ETH has *barely* beaten inflation since the 2017 top. Not 2021. 2017. That's nearly a decade. Similar thing applies to your logic. ~5K in 2021 is not ~5K in 2026.

Posting here because crypto subs will just tell me to buy the dip. I co manage a small investment partnership, and we've decided to build a sizeable ETH position this quarter. The decision to own it is done and I'm not looking to debate it. The fight now is about how to buy it and the partners have split into two camps. The first camp wants an OTC block one call, one price, done by the afternoon. No slicing orders into public books, no leaking intent, and nobody babysitting an algorithm for six weeks. The tradeoff is that the desk prices its risk into the spread. There's also the fear that the market drops the following week and we look foolish for buying everything at once. The second camp wants a TWAP over several weeks. Smaller pieces mean less market impact, and timing risk gets spread out. The tradeoff is time and effort. If price rises steadily, we pay more on average than the block would have cost, and someone has to own monitoring it. I pulled historical volatility and ran some rough scenarios. The conclusion was that it depends which regret you'd rather live with, which is true but not helpful. A few things keep bugging me. Our position is big for us but probably small against daily volume, so market impact may matter less than the TWAP camp thinks. The one block quote we got was wider than I expected, and I have no reference for whether that's normal or whether we called the wrong desk. Someone suggested a hybrid, blocking part and running an algo for the rest. It sounds like a committee compromise, but maybe it's just correct. Settlement matters too. Whatever we choose, I don't want assets parked on an exchange longer than necessary. For people who've bought real size in crypto, how did you make the call? Is TWAP pointless below a certain size? And how do you judge whether a block quote is fair when you don't have a list of desks to compare?

I've been seeing a lot of different opinions lately about what Ethereum needs to improve, and I'm curious what people here think should actually come first. If you could pick just one thing for Ethereum developers to focus on next year, what would it be? Lower gas fees? Faster transactions? Making L2s easier to use? Finding ways for ETH to benefit more from network growth? Or something else? Obviously, Ethereum can't fix everything at once, so I'm interested in what people think would make the biggest difference. And what would you actually need to see happen to feel like Ethereum is moving in the right direction? Curious to hear everyone's thoughts, especially from people who have been using or holding ETH for a while.

Was it ever? The Canton tries to be modern, so officially supported it a little bit. But was there much more, besides the millionaire of "Bitcoin Suisse" living there and the ETH (some organisation) letterbox.

I wouldn’t bet on $10k, but I also think it would be a little dangerous to bet against it. ETH hasn’t existed in a low rate environment since 2021. We had ~5k in 2021 at 0% in great macro with full focus on crypto, then it hit $5k again in 2025 at 4% in terrible macro competing with AI for risk capital. We didn’t appreciate in price, but we did appreciate in relative importance to command the same price in much worse macro. I’m not vouching for $10k, but I think $6k-8k (3x) in the next few years is much more likely than people think. Between here and ATH, it’s all just a numbers game. No breakthroughs or paradigm shifts needed. When macro improves, ETH can take $6k like it’s nothing. $8k might be a battle. $10k is not impossible.