ETHEUR
Ethereum / Euro
crypto Composite

Seeing the 3 main ones, BTC, ETH, and LTC- makes sense. They’re the global standards over the past decade.

Best bridge for BTC to ETH?

The latest prospectus from T.Rowe lists these coins as eligible assets for their Price Active ETF just approved for launch by the SEC recently. (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, AVAX, LTC, DOT, DOGE, HBAR, BCH, LINK, XLM, SHIB, SUI)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2089855/000199937126013250/tknz-424b3\\\_062326.htm
Curious over time, how many other coins will actually be able to compete for inclusion in these ETFs over these more established coins?
Are the barriers to entry just too hard to breach and new coins won’t have a chance?
Are crypto index ETFs even a good idea? Or should filers stick to single coin ETFs and let the market decide the winners?

More or less what I needed to know. I kinda feel like the devs at Phantom should implement this.. that would certainly make things easy if I was able to simply "swap" things within the app.
But I understand that the underlying tech is complicated it's not so simple to do this.
Will checkout Jumper. I guess I could just give the Phantom details for both SOL and ETH on the bridge, that should work.. in my mind. Will test it out.

firstly, ignore all the DMs you would have got so far, they are all scammers and trying to drain/ take money from you.
Although phantom supports both Solana and Ethereum, the process to transfer is not straightforward within the app.
What you need to do is use a bridge and there are many options for that. You just need to have some SOL for the fees and then connect your Solana wallet and share a ETH wallet in the bridge interface and it should happen in a few seconds.
some of the bridges i have used: Jumper, Debridge.

Heads up. More fixed yield deposit space opened today on Alchemix. These are the best fixed rate yields on ETH in DeFi as far as I’m aware, which probably means they won’t last
https://alchemix.fi/fixed-yield

the risk I see is LSTs becoming store of value instead of ETH. Otherwise I tend to agree with your conservatism. I think part of why the monetary premium of ETH is lower than BTC is because of the uncertainty about policy constantly evolving. just my 2c I am certainly not part of the gigabrain debates

Can someone explain to me what the draw is for an issuance reduction on ETH?
I feel like this is very much a “don’t fix what isn’t broken” thing. ETH inflation is already lower than most fiat currencies, and that yield is a big part of what makes ETH useful in DeFi and desire able to hold.
I’m having trouble finding any positive to it. Less stakers and DeFi usage does not equal price go up

Saw this on Twatter. Buy McDonald’s apparently. Drawdowns from highs:
Indices: SPY −3%, QQQ −8%, MAGS −11%
Mega cap: MSFT −31%, TSLA −36%, META −24%, GOOGL −22%, AMZN −16%, NVDA −12%, ORCL −65%, PLTR −41%, NFLX −46%, UBER −32%
Software: INTU −65%, TEAM −61%, ZS −59%, NOW −56%, WDAY −49%, ADBE −44%, CRM −43%, SHOP −39%, IBM −38%
Semis: SMCI −50%, SNPS −43%, ARM −37%, MRVL −36%, LRCX −27%, AMAT −24%, AVGO −21%
Emerging growth: OKLO −77%, RBLX −68%, UPST −68%, ACHR −65%, JOBY −64%, QBTS −63%, IONQ −60%, TEM −56%, HIMS −54%, APP −47%, CRWV −47%, IREN −47%, RDDT −40%, ALAB −35%, HOOD −34%
Crypto: BTC −49%, ETH −63% (−70% at the lows), MSTR −78%, BMNR −77%, COIN −60%, SOFI −49%
Space: SPCX −40% from its post-IPO high, back at the $135 offer price after the largest IPO in US history. ASTS −56%, RKLB −54%, LUNR −71%, RDW −65%, VOYG −50%, FLY −72%
Metals: Gold −27% from its January record, Silver −53%

The eth-test.eth (or similar "test/alpha reward" ENS domain) scam is a fraudulent web3 testing ruse. Scammers trick users into sending real cryptocurrency to a designated address under the pretense of "testing smart contracts," "testing networks," or receiving high daily percentage returns.How the Scam WorksThe Hook: A scammer or fake group chat instructs you to send real ETH or tokens to an ENS address like eth-test.eth or similar variants to participate in a "test".Fake Returns: They may send back a tiny initial profit or show a fake inflated balance on a malicious dashboard to build false trust.The Trap: Once you deposit a larger amount of real funds, the scammers cut off communication, block your withdrawal, or drain your wallet entirely.Testnet Confusion: Scammers often exploit confusion surrounding test networks (like Sepolia or Goerli), claiming dummy test tokens have real-world monetary value or can be swapped for profit.Safety Rules to FollowNever Send Real Crypto: Legitimate developers will never ask you to send real mainnet ETH to an ENS name or personal wallet for "testing".Ignore DMs: Anyone messaging you on social platforms, Telegram, or Discord offering guaranteed crypto returns or web3 testing tasks is running a scam.Check Official Resources: Refer to Ethereum Security Guidance for official safety practices and to learn how to identify phishing attempts.

I would be selling you the ETH i got at the lows and then buy it back from you at the lows…. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Welcome to the stupid of crypto.
This link
[https://app.debridge.com/?address=&inputChain=7565164&outputChain=1&inputCurrency=EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v&outputCurrency=0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48&dlnMode=simple](https://app.debridge.com/?address=&inputChain=7565164&outputChain=1&inputCurrency=EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v&outputCurrency=0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48&dlnMode=simple)
will do what you want. But you're going to spend quite a bit to
1: allow ETH payments, 2: accept EH payments.
SOL is a lot cheaper to use. Whatever you're buying I'd reconsider it.
There's not a lot of places that "only support ETH" because ETH payments are dumb as fuck.

My account has also been blocked; it held 3 BTC, 30 ETH, various other coins, and 500k USDT—bringing the total portfolio value to 1,200k USDT.

I only know Tsinghua and Peking as great universities. I met a guy in Cambridge who did engineering in tsinghua and I did assume that he is really smart/good because of that. Similar to someone coming from MIT/Oxbridge/Caltech/ETH or whatever in terms of intellectual power. I still assume that the network/reputation of ivys and oxbridge is better 

A bit new to transferring between chains so I have a doubt. I want to make a payment that only supports USDC on ETH. So I want to take USDC that I have on Solana chain and then transfer it to USDC on ETH but I don't want to use some different app for this.

I see that my phantom wallet app comes with an Ethereum address. So how do I make it happen within Phantom itself?
Or are there wallet apps that are better for this kind of this?

There is no guarentee that ETH will continue to fluctuate within these same price range, I am a beginner so I think this is a good way to learn how crypto market works. Once I become more confident, I will leave this comfort zone and take more risks to see if I can get more rewards or mess it up

ETH is cool

Poolin peaked at around 20-25% of Bitcoin's total hashrate in 2020-2021, which made them genuinely systemically important to the network. Their collapse is a good case study in how brutal the mining business model actually is.
The fundamental problem: mining has near-fixed costs (energy contracts, hardware depreciation) but income that's directly proportional to BTC price × (your hashrate / total network hashrate). When BTC dropped 75% in 2022, the math flipped overnight. Hardware bought at peak prices in 2021 suddenly had a payback period of decades.
Poolin's specific failure point was their "Pool.io" earnings account — they were offering yield on miners' accumulated BTC balances, essentially acting like an unregulated bank. When liquidity dried up in August 2022, they suspended withdrawals. Many miners lost their earned BTC sitting in that account.
The pattern repeated across the industry: Core Scientific (filed December 2022), Compute North (filed September 2022), Argo Blockchain (near-miss), Greenidge Generation... The Ethereum Merge also hit GPU miners who were pooling on Poolin's ETH side.
Worth noting: the miners who survived were the ones with locked-in low-cost energy contracts (sub $0.04/kWh) and owned their hardware outright rather than leasing. North American miners with cheap hydro/wind power had a structural advantage that Chinese miners largely lost after the 2021 ban.

Here once again to defend the degen side of crypto and tell you all to check out/get excited about Fake World Assets. Most interesting thing I’ve seen onchain in literal years and it’s HAPPENING ON ETHEREUM. It has serious flywheel potential for ETH and all ETH backed assets. It could steal attention and influence from that soulless asshole Solana-shilling Ansem. It injects the powerful psychology of opening a pack of sports/Pokémon cards into the crypto world.
Go ask AI about it or search it on X and get behind it.

WTF I just tried to register a test ENS domain on Sepolia and apparently the new front-end doesn't support ETH any more?
Tried posting the link but Reddit automatically deleted it, they were way ahead of us in fucking hating ENS