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> what if we could create a parallel ETH-backed mechanism ?
Originally this was DAI then our boy got raped. Now it's [Liquity's BOLD](https://www.liquity.org/bold) but this is built on LSTs which I'm not a fan of.
We need to bring back a good ol' vanilla ETH backed stablecoin

The real issue is not just smart contracts. It is that BTC holders usually treat bitcoin as their best collateral, so every extra wrapper, bridge, custodian, or sidechain has to earn its place. ETH users got culturally comfortable with smart contract risk. BTC users mostly did not. If the trade is "take your clean BTC exposure and add bridge risk, contract risk, liquidation risk, and maybe sidechain risk," then the utility has to be very obvious. If it were me, the first use case that scales is borrowing against BTC for liquidity without selling, not chasing yield on wrapped BTC. Yield is where a lot of people stop trusting the setup.

It levels the playing field between ETH and SOL from a policy and regulation perspective but the benefits will mostly go to ETH because that's where institutional finance is building out. Banks no longer are forced to consider crypto as liabilities on their balance sheets, the friendly CFTC takes oversight over BTC/ETH while most other cryptos are relegated to the hostile SEC, developers have genuine legal protection if their working on decentralized projects, and the stablecoin yield ban should push users towards DeFi yields.

We are just getting started with AI...These things will run in tandem because ETH is perfect fuel for this horizon. We'll see what demand for the price comes from it, but regulation is getting done.
The internet wasn't built in 10 years.

Chances are that "coin" is not a coin, it is a token. Saying that, figure out which blockchain that token falls under. The reason why it is showing you that is because, you don't have the coin the cover the gas fee.
Now, the validity of the token on if it's real or not, entire depends on what it even is.
Edit: Is doogleinu the actual ticker? Meaning, something like ETH or is it the token's name?

Let me cook up some hopium rn
I think we have to accept we are no longer the frontier of tech and the speculative premium has moved into AI, I think most would agree that appetite has been allocated towards AI when taking on units of risk.
I also think that global liquidity is still tight, we may not be tightening at the same rate of change but money supply is still not expansionary. Inflation seems to be making a return if anything, jobs are down and the economy is K shaped - retail is hurting and burned from previous cycles. Until excess liquidity returns, we don't get an easy bid.
But we are seeing healthy adoption of the Ethereum Blockchain, institutional adoption is no longer in the future, it is here. ETF flows have picked back up, the tech is (relatively) mature. Regulation is clarifying. There is large growth of stablecoins and tokenised treasuries in particular.
So, to me, the two real question becomes does the liquidity in AI rotate to crypto again ? & will the value accrue be to the tokens and protocols or the banks/fintechs that adopt this infrastructure?
As the AI trade becomes more and more concentrated and consensus, I believe that the IPOs of Anthropic / xAI may prove to be the narrative saturation point. Markets are physiologically driven and once access is opened up, VC's/treasuries/institutional investors loose their comparative advantage and seek out "the next thing" in order to satisfy the belief that they are "ahead" of the market to satisfy their underlying fund participants desires of premium capital returns. So this exit liquidity has the potential to enter crypto, we still need to remember how small our industry is compared to equities and that we offer this outsized return on capital. Maybe we have a sexy new narrative as AI converges with blockchain but more importantly is the financial incentives from my perspective, we will find a new narrative following price movement.
The second question of value accrual to token or finance incumbents is our fight to face, we are the stakeholders of this network and should be advocating for the value accrual to be the underlying token of the asset we hold. To support the ideological vision of decentralisation we need to capture the economic surplus generated by onchain networks. My view is that we want to be the invisible infrastructure that is neutral but not give away our bargaining power towards a future that we want. We cannot be passive observes as the incentives of BlackRock, JPM ect. prevail --> we worked to hard to get us to this point, we must move away from attacking TradFi to capture value and towards defending DeFi to hold value. We must ensure ETH is used for settlement, activity on the network = value accrual, L2's pay real rent to mainnet, prevent abstracting layers from bypassing ETH demand e.g. USD denominated stablecoins look like they will be required to be backed by HQLAs offchain (fiat/mmfs/treasuries) but what if we could create a parallel ETH-backed mechanism ? Or ETH based dispute resolution pools for anything breaks (i.e bridges).
I think this space has had the two camps of "in it for the tech" and" in it for the economics" for too long. We need to realise that if we are in it for the tech, we need to defend the economics and if we are in it for the economics we need to defend the tech.
Would love to here the communities thoughts on this as I want to reenergise this space, its too precious to watch die out.

"ETH investors" is doing some insane heavy lifting

Not this guy. Sold my 10 ETH along w/ every other all I had and bought BTC at 43k and sold it all at 119k. Cash is where it's at through to the end of the year...and even then, we may not have bottomed out.

Built a multi-factor scoring system that runs 80 indicators simultaneously across 8 categories. Here's today's reading on BTC (same pattern on ETH and SOL):

Composite: -14.9/100 (BEARISH)
On-Chain: -0.333 | Volume: -0.317 | Momentum: -0.277
Sentiment: -0.143 | Volatility: -0.059 | Technical: -0.043

Top bearish factors: ICHIMOKU (-1.0), OBV (-1.0), WHALE\_ACTIVITY (-1.0)
One holdout: MINER\_FLOW (+1.0) - the lone bullish signal in a sea of red

What's interesting about MINER\_FLOW diverging bullish while everything else is bearish? Historically this has been a leading indicator 2-3 days out. Curious if others track miner behavior as a contra signal.

Two different things being conflated here.
Saylor's "BTC yield" is a treasury accounting KPI; BTC-per-share growth funded by equity and convertible debt issuance. So yes, that one is essentially dilution-funded accumulation, not real yield. Fair critique.
But that's separate from actual BTC yield products like the one I mentioned. Your BTC stays as principal. Yield is sourced externally from RWA cashflows (private credit, corporate bond exposures) and distributed to depositors. The BTC isn't being sold to pay you; yield comes from real-world income on the underlying assets.
You're right that BTC has no native yield like ETH staking. The yield has to come from somewhere. In this model it's regulated RWA cashflows, not native protocol economics.

So? The biggest most pressing issue in the Ethereum network is ETH value capture economics.
The EF deprioritizes ETH value capture. It doesn’t matter whether transactions go up, where gas fees go, whether L2 usage increases, ETH doesn’t capture any value.
They don’t call it the Linux OS for the blockchain for a reason.

Nothing is good for the market nowadays. Has become the most boring market. Back in the day this would have propelled the market. Looking forward to getting back to break even on ETH and leaving the crypto market.

Actually my ETH entry is at $2100 😄

swapped $2.5k worth of ETH into a mid-cap token recently. the preview showed 3% slippage, I set my tolerance to 4% and went ahead. came out $183 below the quoted amount. the pool showed roughly $800k in 24h volume so I assumed it was fine. I

s this expected at this size or did I mess something up?

Crypto is lagging massively against the stock market. Last year, the crypto market got dumped along with stocks due to the tariffs, but after 6 months, we were seeing an ATH in both. Then, on October 10, everyone lost trust in crypto. At the beginning of 2026, Venezuela and Iran went to war, and markets shook, but stocks kept rising and beating ATH, while in the meantime, crypto was stale. Bitcoin went from 60 to 81k and ETH from 1800 to 2300. Even with the Clarity passing yesterday, crypto didn't move, and now that the new FED Chairman has taken office, we can see crypto dumping again due to uncertainty.
To summarise, I don't believe crypto will thrive again. We had 3 bull cycles in the previous 12 years with diminishing returns; like it or not, returns will decrease over time, as expected. There are no more catalysts that can trigger another bull run, like it or not. If you look at Google Trends, both Bitcoin and Ethereum are trending down because they're not hot anymore. It's way easier to invest worldwide, so why invest in Crypto when you can put money in energy and tech stocks that go up anyway with way less risk? Retail lost trust in crypto. Companies accumulate but a very small portion in their portfolios to keep the FOMO.
Anyway, these are my 2 cents on Crypto's current state and future. I will keep holding my coins, but I don't expect a bull run in the next 24 months. In my opinion, it's more likely to see crypto dumping to 0 than reaching a new ATH.
[Google Trends](https://preview.redd.it/3vgkevhrd91h1.png?width=1907&format=png&auto=webp&s=470bd3037cd3ab86deadc0e57be551fdcabebc7d)

The best solution is probably finding another GF to steal even more money for to buy the generational ETH bottom, improving your Ethereum allocation substantially at a critical ETH low

a lot of institutions honestly dont care about the crypto revolution part as much as people think, they care about settlement, tokenization, and programmable assets. Ethereum gives them a network where things like bonds, funds, stablecoins, and collateral can move faster and be automated without building totally seperate infrastructure from scratch. thats why you keep hearing about tokenized treasuries and onchain finance experiments now. but yeah, their involvement probly does change Ethereum over time, especially around compliance pressure, staking concentration, and the types of upgrades big players push for. i dont think it automatically kills decentralization, but it definitely creates tension between the cypherpunk side of ETH and the institutional side that wants predictability and regulation-friendly rails.

I mean, people are so disillusioned that most holders just pray for a small pump so that they can sell everything and forget ETH ever existed, does this sound optimistic to you?
The way it usually works is it will Crab here/edge lower until more people give up at these prices, and *then* it will pump.

Okay, this is good news. According to sentiment, Ethereum has recorded $74.58M in realized profits over the past 3 weeks. Good to know that ETH investors are in profit.

been in this shit since the late 2010s and it's getting a bit retarded now id rather just look at stock charts and try to flip the evil AI companies than watch ETH slit its wrists everyday LOL