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I've just started trading a few months ago, but aren't crypto like SOL and ETH also pretty "solid", with valid reasons to exist and an actual path to growth and adoption in the real world?
Maybe I'm an idiot but not all crypto look like Doge memecoins to me.

Evidence of Litecoin’s growing TradFi footprint: Fidelity is hiring a Principal Blockchain Platform Engineer for its Digital Assets group, and the role explicitly lists just 3 networks in scope - BTC, ETH, and LTC: https://jobs.fidelity.com/en/jobs/2122028/principal-blockchain-platform-engineer-digital-assets/

It's also a much fairer distribution of ETH to buyers. More bang for buck.

I tier by risk tolerance and liquidity needs:
Tier 1 (Emergency fund / low risk):
• Aave/Compound USDC on Ethereum
• Or honestly just a neobank HYSA (boring but no smart contract risk)
Tier 2 (Medium risk):
• Blue-chip protocol vaults (Yearn, Beefy on established chains)
• Single-sided staking (ETH, stablecoins)
Tier 3 (High risk / smaller allocation):
• Farms with high APY (expect impermanent loss)
• Newer protocols (can rug, do your DD)
The key: Don't chase APY without understanding where the yield comes from. Emissions-based yield is temporary. Fee-based yield is sustainable.
What's your risk tolerance and timeline?

Good post. I do remember him mentioning his funding initiative. I can see how some people won't like the optics. Looks like he sold about 7.05% of his holdings.
[https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/25/vitalik-buterin-sold-17-000-eth-this-month-as-ether-fell-37](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/25/vitalik-buterin-sold-17-000-eth-this-month-as-ether-fell-37)
* *Vitalik Buterin has reduced his ether holdings by about 17,000 ETH, or $43 million, in February after pledging a similar amount to fund privacy and security projects.*
* *The sales, executed in many small trades via the CoW Protocol, have coincided with a 37% drop in ether's price over the past month to around $1,900.*
* *Ether's decline and compressed staking yields near 2.8% have deepened unrealized losses for major corporate holders such as Bitmine Immersion Technologies.*
*Vitalik Buterin earmarked 17,000 ether, worth about $43 million, for privacy projects in January. A month later, his wallet balance is down by roughly that amount, and the token he's selling has lost more than a third of its value.*
*Arkham Intelligence data shows Buterin's attributed wallets held about 241,000 ETH at the start of February. That figure now sits at 224,000 ETH after a steady series of outflows through the month, including $6.6 million over three days earlier in February and roughly another $7 million in the past three days alone.*

But you understand about 5 entities controlled nearly 60% of stake ETH. That's terribly centralised. So leadership from EF to promote home stakers would be nice I thought but again what do I know about Blockchains

The roadmap through 2029 is actually encouraging. Having a concrete plan with milestones is exactly what the ecosystem needs right now - especially with so much FUD about ETH losing ground to Solana.
Key things I'm watching:
- L2 native integration improvements (this is where the real scaling happens)
- Account abstraction rollout (massive for UX)
- PBS and proposer-builder separation (critical for decentralization)
The bear market is the best time to build. Every cycle, the projects that keep shipping during the downturn are the ones that dominate the next bull run. ETH's dev activity is still unmatched.
Patience will be rewarded here.

Fidelity will start staking their ETH soon too! FETH! 
Hell yeah!

A lot of the panic around Vitalik "dumping" ETH this week but did not read the post last January 30th announcing upfront that he ANNOUNCED he was withdrawing 16k ETH to fund ETH developments. This wasn't a surprise exit
The execution was also deliberate, small batches routed through CoW swap to reduce market impact, converted into stablecoins. TBF it was bad optics because timing-wise market is bad the selling had ETH a 37% drawdown this month but blaming all on Vitalik is a question (EF and Vitalik has been doing this for years)
The "founder dumping" narrative gets views but don't see its needed to operate Ethereum

They didn't have to pick favourites! As far as I know only stader and lido SCM module supports home stakers. They could have pick all equally and distribute little bit of ETH.

It's ethereum time to shine.
all btc catalysts are dead, got etf, got recognition from top countries and institutions etc etc
eth? didn't even start, no staking etfs from blacktock , tokenized assets are just starting to grow , huge potential for upside
Eventually banks and even countries will hold ETH, because there will be so much Tokenized Assets and holding/ staking ETH becomes national security
8k is coded

EF: we strongly support home staking, Also EF: let's deploy 70,000 ETH in our organization node while 1000s of home stakers starving for ETH in rocketpool. If they just deploy 5% of that, it would have added 1250 home stakers to the network. This beg the question are the EF really want network to be decentralised or have some control over it although they said otherwise. 

I’ve been tracking this since the $40M mark, and it’s finally happening. As of this morning, the Clardun ($CLD) presale has officially crossed $54 million. With a hard cap of $55M, we are looking at the final 1.8% of the allocation.
In a month where most of the market is sideways or bleeding, this is a massive signal. While retail is scared, the "Smart Money" is currently vacuuming up the remaining $CLD. Here is the final breakdown of why this is the only infrastructure play I’m holding through the 2026 volatility.
1\\. The "Atomic" Killshot to MEV Bots The reason $54M flowed in so quickly is simple: Clardun solves the Escrow Gap. On standard DEXs, your trade sits in a mempool where bots sandwich you for a 2-3% "tax." Clardun’s Atomic Settlement Engine uses binary execution you get the exact quote instantly, or the trade reverts. No "pending" status, no failed gas, and zero bot interference.
2\\. The B2B "Trojan Horse" This isn't just for traders. Clardun’s Payment API is being positioned as the "Stripe for Web3." It allows a merchant to receive ETH or USDC instantly, even if the customer pays in a volatile altcoin. By removing the merchant's price risk, Clardun is unlocking real-world retail adoption that we’ve been promised since 2017.
3\\. The $55M Hard-Lock I’ve seen a lot of people asking if they’ll extend the cap. The answer in the dev-docs is a flat no. The $55M limit is hard-coded to protect early holders from dilution. Once that final $1M is gone (likely in the next few hours), the portal hard-locks until the June Testnet.
The Strategy: The "whales" in this raise aren't looking for a pump-and-dump. They are Reserve Managers who need to stake $CLD to run liquidity warehouses and earn protocol fees. We are essentially front-running the market makers who will need this token to operate their businesses on-chain.
Final Verdict: We’re at the 98% mark. If you’re tired of being the "yield" for front-running bots, this is the infrastructure move of the year. I’ll see you all on the other side of the September Mainnet.
Verify the remaining $1M here: \[invest.clardun.com\](http://invest.clardun.com)

opened my portfolio today expecting emotional damage.
* BTC: down
* ETH: down
* SOL: down
* alts: extinct
* my mental health: questionable
and then somehow… DOT +30% in 24 hours. apparently there’s a supply cap / “halving” update announced. of course I hold zero DOT because I confidently decided polkadot was dead last week. crypto investing rule #1: the coin you don’t own is always the one pumping.
flawless execution honestly. anyone else watching this from the sidelines while holding losses?

Meaningless statistics?
We’re talking stablecoin volume and DeFi tvl. These are literally the only metrics that matter for “emerging payment infrastructure” or even decentralized financial applications in any meaningful way.
Once again it’s clear you’re coping and projecting considering SOL is down harder than ETH this year and more institutions are building on it.
If you don’t like that I’m sorry, but the numbers are all there lol. Go look at DeFiLlama’s stablecoin and Defi metrics.
Educate yourself before projecting literal nonsense lol

This post is basically the reason why I am waiting for ETH staking ETFs to just come out in a few weeks.

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Rough spot man, but you're doing the right thing by reflecting on it. Small caps are brutal - they look like 10x opportunities until they're rug pulls or slow bleeds. That's the hard lesson most of us learn the expensive way.
For anyone reading this - start with established stuff like BTC and ETH. Learn how markets actually move before touching altcoins. Position sizing matters way more than picking winners. If you're new, put in what you can afford to lose and keep way too much in stables while you study. Takes time to build intuition for what's legit vs what's hype.

MEXC is a choice for Europe. They offer deep liquidity for BTC/ETH options and maintain VASP status.

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.