ETHEUR
Ethereum / Euro
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The reason the institutions are buying ETH is because everything is going on-chain. That hasn't changed. Blockchain is faster, and forgive me for being a little nihilistic, but it also helps establish the control grid..

Ethereum got around 10,000 global distributed nodes. Sound very censorship resistant right? Bigly wrong! Less than 35 KYC nodes hosts more than 50% of staked ETH!! Once Dune add bitmine to it's dashboard, it will push close to 60%!!  Ethereum leadership keep talking about quantum threats and privacy etc. but this is the elephant in the room!  DOJ could force these kyc guys to censor txes. Maybe Ethereum leadership like it that way for some reason I don't know. 
Have a look Dune dashboard, top 6 controls 50% staked ETH.
https://dune.com/hildobby/eth2-staking
pS: lidos 25ish kyc nodes control close to 95% it's staked ETH.

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Beside the major cryptos BTC/ETH I am stacking HBAR, HYPE, AAVE and UNI for the following reasons:
HBAR has hashgraph tech which is pushing limits of scalability, energy efficiency plus speed at new competition level. It starts to create noise and more and more deal closed but still at a very discounted price
HYPE because of the leverage provided to the crypto derivatives it is very popular and generating tons of volume and revenue. They are using a large chunk of this revenue to burn token and create more scarcity (max supply was originally 1 billion and falling)
AAVE as key player for lending and borrowing cryptos which is very popular activity as well just after derivative leverage positions. The margin is not high but volumes are tremendous so it is generating pretty good revenue
Finally UNI as swapping coins is becoming a national sport and they take a few bucks on million transactions so pretty good revenue stream, pity thing is that nothing benefit to token holders yet in regards of revenue sharing but it might change soon.

I've used [flake.exchange](http://flake.exchange) been my go-to for ETH to Solana. Clean interface, no surprise fees, and swaps go through fast. Way less headache than most other tools I've tried.

u dont pay tax on stacking, sure.
but u have to pay tax on the earned rewards in ETH or any other as its considered as income.

They're coming (for your ETH)

ETH has been one of the worst investments I’ve ever made. I bought in 2021 at $4k. Since then it’s been above $4k for like 90 days or less lol

This is why I just DCA and stop checking charts. Been auto-buying $49 of ETH daily through this whole dip. Average cost went from $2,027 down to $1,855 while everyone panics. The "going to zero" crowd gets loud at the bottom and quiet at the top, every cycle. Same applies with BTC.

maybe. $758M in BTC longs could be defensive positioning ..stop the bleeding, not start a bull run. but $491M actively shorting ETH at the same time is harder to explain as "keeping it from crashing." that's a directional bet, not damage control

Why did Vitalik sell his ETH and tank BTC and the stock market with it?

When did they start this? Cuz i remember I could not transfer out my ETH.
Also how does this compare to coinbase?

Welp ... just sold 2/3rds of my stack and I'll stake what little I have left. I've been holding since 2020 and my conviction has been down only since early 2023 but fully went to zero over the past few months. I still believe in Ethereum (for now) but I am so done with ETH and crypto overall. Time to move on to something that actually adds value to the world - like my family and other investments thst are actually making a difference in the world.

Good news is I'll be making a nice lump sum payment towards to the principal on my house. It feels better than any green candle that the market farted out after injesting hype and VC horseshit.

i’m just a girl but i track patterns and have been doing that with crypto since 2018. Feb-March is when I always buy in. I’ve made significant profit. it’s like clockwork. apparently i’m not the only one that noticed this bc they call it ‘Crypto Winter’. Then generally I transfer alt coins in the late summer or early fall into BIT or ETH. Don’t take my advice but if u do, u wont fear. occasionally there was a year or 2 that it was different but like i said, im in the green. other than right now since I just got more SOL, SUI, and TIA. and my moonshot AKT but i invested so little there it’s just for fun to test my prescience.
i agree with u OP

fair point honestly, contrarian plays work until they don't. the $491M short on ETH is what caught my eye though.... that's not just a stat, that's real capital committed to a specific bet. whoever holds that position is paying funding fees every hour. they're not hedging, they're convicted. could absolutely be wrong and ETH holds on utility. wouldn't be the first time whale positioning was early or just plain wrong. just interesting to see it this lopsided

Someone buys every sell order that gets filled. So who’s buying lately? Mostly institutions, or retail? I wonder how much ETH is changing hands these days, besides the usual short term trading/leverage volume.

The narrative that stablecoin growth will lead to ETH appreciation is leading people over a cliff when the facts show otherwise.
In May 2021:
- ETH marketcap was ~$500 Billion
- Stablecoin marketcap was ~$80 Billion
- ETH was ~6X the total stablecoin marketcap
In February 2026:
- ETH marketcap is ~$225 Billion
- Stablecoin marketcap is ~$320 Billion

Anyone in his position would sell too. And he is still pretty active for ETH.

There’s 1000 materials that are better than gold for most of the purposes gold serves in a utility capacity.
But the fact that it’s been around a long time as a way to store value, even though there is more gold still in the earth than has ever been mined, is enough for people to give it a unique status as a store of value.
I agree that the tech isn’t top tier these days, but it is upgradable, and it’s kind of irrelevant to the purpose BTC has come to serve.
It’s not a daily currency like people thought it would be, in the same way that gold is not.
Other crypto like stable coins and ETH will fill those shoes instead.

ETH for $1.12 😭😭😭😭😭