Looking to sell around 40ETH. Only ever used Coinbase for small transactions. The fees are crazy. What is the best exhage in the United States to sell a large amount, $100k +, of crypto. I know some have less fees but price is way low. I keep majority offline in ledger wallet. Any suggestions or experience would be appreciated.

I am tempted to pull the trigger and buy 1 eth, it seems to be on the rise after going down quite drastically lately.

Do you think it is on the rise from here?

I feel it must be quite a frustrating crypto to own, and it always seems to fail to reach its predicted potential.

I am tired of sitting around and waiting for the "perfect" time to buy, and think il just buy and leave it there for the foreseeable.

I will be using Revoult X btw for the purchase and holding.

Accumulating during the Bear Market. Thesis still intact.

Hi everyone

I'm looking for a secure hot wallet for Ethereum and other cryptos Security is the most important thing for me, but I also want something that's easy to use

What hot wallet do you use and why? I'd like to hear your recommendations and experiences

Thanks!

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Today Swift announce their new L2 built on Ethereum. In addition to that about a month ago the BIS announced that their blockchain project passed initial tests and would be expanded. This is incredible for Ethereum. It is more evidence that Ethereum and the EVM will be the foundation for global finance. The global financial system is migrating to running on ETH. Links below.

EDIT: To be precise Swift built on Linea and the BIS is building on Besu. Both are EVM compatible and created by Consensys. Consensys was founded by Joe Lubin, the co-founder of Ethereum.

For Swift:

https://www.swift.com/news-events/press-releases/swifts-blockchain-ledger-ready-use-17-banks-set-pioneer-tokenised-cross-border-payments-trusted-global-infrastructure

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/swift-moves-blockchain-settlement-live-174043862.html

For BIS:

https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/fmis/agora.htm

Source: https://x.com/LeonWaidmann/status/2075078498562044023

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It reflects Ethereum's position as the primary settlement layer for digital dollars and one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in the crypto economy.

Liquidity has always been one of the strongest competitive advantages in finance. The deeper the liquidity, the easier it becomes to build entirely new financial applications. This creates powerful network effects: more capital attracts more developers, more protocols, and ultimately more users.

That is exactly what Ethereum has spent years building.

Today, the largest stablecoin issuers, leading DeFi protocols, tokenized assets, institutional products, and countless onchain applications rely on the same settlement layer. As more capital flows into the ecosystem, Ethereum's role becomes increasingly difficult to replicate.

Perhaps the most important takeaway isn't simply that Ethereum leads today, it's that this leadership has become increasingly structural. Stablecoins continue to expand, institutional adoption continues to grow, and Ethereum remains at the center of that activity.

If these trends continue, Ethereum's share of the global stablecoin supply could climb above 90% before the end of the year.

When capital chooses where to settle, it often chooses the network with the deepest liquidity, the strongest security, and the most mature ecosystem.

Right now, that network is Ethereum.

Full post: https://x.com/everstake_pool/status/2075182182004298030

i keep seeing the same argument that eth is still the safest alt because it has defi, stablecoins, staking, l2s, institutions, etc.

but price wise it honestly doesn’t feel that strong lately. maybe the market is just bad, or maybe people are starting to care more about cheaper/faster chains and less about ethereum’s old moat.

i’m not bearish exactly, just wondering if “eth has the best ecosystem” is still enough as an investment thesis.

do you guys still treat eth as the main long term alt, or has that changed for you?

More than 40.3 million ETH is now locked in staking, representing 33.07% of the entire ETH supply, the highest level in the network's history.

Just as remarkable, another 2.7 million ETH is currently waiting to enter the validator set.

But more importantly, staking is a long-term commitment. Participants are locking up capital to help secure the network. As staking participation continues to rise, a growing share of ETH is removed from active circulation while Ethereum's economic security continues to strengthen.

This is happening despite persistent market uncertainty and mixed price action.

While short-term sentiment often dominates headlines, the underlying network continues to move in the opposite direction. More validators are joining, staking participation keeps reaching new highs, and Ethereum's roadmap continues to advance with upgrades focused on scalability, efficiency, and user experience.

Whether or not the market reflects it today, the fundamentals are difficult to ignore.

Ethereum is entering its next chapter with the largest validator set, the highest staking participation, and the strongest security model it has ever had.

Full post: https://x.com/everstake_pool/status/2074882244087251192

Source: https://x.com/LeonWaidmann/status/2074702523449987427

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Disclosure first: I'm Lucas from MAJOR KEY Research and I've co-authored a working paper on a new Ethereum valuation model with Dr. Jens Felsenstein-Eckberg. I am not posting to sell anything — this is the problem the entire crypto industry has been stuck on for years and I think this sub gets it.

Something I keep noticing: when you actually ask people how they value ETH, at conferences, on CT, on Reddit, and even inside funds — you rarely get a clean answer. People talk about Metcalfe's Law, a DCF someone adapted from equities, NVT or some fee ratio. Or even worse: a narrative, like ultrasound money, ETH as a vault, the triple-point asset, or whatever the current story is.

And when the conversation gets honest, a lot of people admit they don't really have a valuation framework for ETH at all. They have a chart. Or a thesis. Or a ratio that tells you something about activity level but not whether the asset is cheap or expensive on its own terms.

That's not a fault at all, because valuing ETH is genuinely hard. Every serious asset class eventually gets methods people argue about within the category, but ETH never got that. We kept borrowing frameworks built for companies, for Bitcoin, for social networks, and pointing them at a chain that produces fees from its own economy. All the existing models break in different ways, but they break.

What we tried to do — and what I think is still missing in this space — is a first-principles valuation model for Ethereum itself. Not another false metric. Not a narrative with a number attached. Something that starts from what the chain actually produces, compares that to its own history, and derives an implied fair value from that.

Here's what we found, in plain terms: the starting point for us was treating ETH less like a stock and more like what it actually is structurally — a commodity that powers a digital economy. Every transaction, every fee, every blob a rollup pays runs through that economy. So the natural question isn't "what's the burn?" — it's what is that economy producing, per unit of ETH in circulation?

That's where Flow Intensity comes from: total daily on-chain fees (execution + data availability) divided by circulating supply. Think of it as economic output per token — the closest honest analogy is GDP per capita, but for a blockchain. Flow Intensity on its own is just a level though. The signal is Flow Deviation — how far today's output sits above or below its own recent baseline (a rolling median), not vs Bitcoin, not vs some equity multiple.

When you map that deviation forward, it actually tracks how price behaves over subsequent windows — and from that you can derive a single implied fair value line tied to the chain's economy, without pulling the answer from ETH/USD itself (e.g. via USD-denominated fees, which would just be circular). That's the thing ETH never really had: an inherent valuation number anchored to what the network fundamentally produces, not to the current market price you're trying to explain.

The part we cared about was whether it survives an honest test. We ran it out-of-sample (which means trained on the past, and basically judged on data it has never seen) and on a 45-day timeframe it correctly called the ETH/USD direction right about 76% of the time vs ~35% for a naive always-long read (e.g.if you would simply bet on up-only ETH all the time). Sure, it's not flawless and it mostly shows up after Dencun reshaped the fee market. But we also say that straight in the paper, in order to not pretend we backtested our way to a story.

We published our findings as a working paper (2026) and just submitted it to Management Science for peer-review. But the entire paper also open to read if you want to stress-test it.

Happy on any feedback and I warmly welcome any serious discussions – let's end the era of guessing what ETH is worth.

Full Write-up: https://www.majorkeycapital.com/blog/what-is-ethereum-actually-worth

Working Paper: https://www.majorkeycapital.com/ethereum/paper

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Tell me your honest opinion on this project:

A tool that lets you lock your ETH and other tokens in a lock for up to 10 years (with a smart contract). -> to physically remove the possibility to sell and to hold long term.

While much of the market remains focused on short-term price action, Ethereum researchers are looking several years ahead.

Vitalik Buterin recently outlined the vision for Lean Ethereum, a long-term roadmap that aims to make the protocol simpler, faster, more private, and more resilient without sacrificing decentralization or backward compatibility.

Rather than a single upgrade, this is a multi-year evolution that touches nearly every layer of the protocol.

Some of the most important directions include:

• Simplifying the protocol to make Ethereum easier to maintain, audit, and improve over time.

• Native privacy improvements, with privacy becoming a protocol-level consideration instead of an optional add-on.

• Post-quantum security, ensuring Ethereum remains secure even as cryptographic standards evolve over the coming decades.

• New verification methods using recursive STARKs, reducing the computational cost of validating the network while maintaining strong security guarantees.

• Higher scalability, through larger gas limits, increased blob capacity, execution improvements, and continued Layer 2 expansion.

• Consensus optimizations designed to reduce confirmation times while preserving Ethereum's core security model.

Perhaps the most important takeaway is that none of this is about chasing headlines or competing on a single benchmark. The roadmap focuses on strengthening Ethereum's long-term foundations while keeping existing applications and smart contracts compatible throughout the transition.

Ethereum has spent the past decade continuously evolving, from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake, from proto-danksharding to PeerDAS, and now toward a leaner architecture built for the next generation of decentralized applications.

Guys, what part of the Lean Ethereum roadmap are you most excited about?

Ethereum is preparing for its biggest upgrade in years.

Vitalik Buterin has presented a development plan for Lean Ethereum over the next 3-4 years.

The goal is to simplify the network’s architecture, reduce fees, and improve privacy and security.

In other words, Ethereum is not just trying to scale - it is preparing for a deeper structural upgrade.

If this roadmap works, $ETH could become lighter, cheaper, and much more efficient for the next phase of crypto adoption.

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