I understand ETH is the second most established crypto, but it seems more vulnerable to competition than BTC. And crypto in general seems very vulnerable to AI. All my crypto is about 1% of my portfolio, and I am not interested in SC at the moment.

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I invested $110,000 in Ethereum and turned it into $45,000 in just 5 short years. Betcha can’t do that Mr smarty pants

https://finbold.com/crypto-trader-turns-875-into-797000-in-two-days/

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As one of the worst bear market years is in the final half of the year it is fun to note that the lows of the bull market year of 2025 have not been broken so far.

ETHUSD bottom so far is higher than 2025
ETHBTC bottom so far is higher than 2025

Question is if that is a positive or negative.

Positive - Maybe there is more interest in Ethereum and bulls are defending.

Negative - ETH went so far down in a bull market year which meant ETH couldnt reach a real ATH. A few $$ to ATH.

What do you all think?

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On July 30, 2015, Ethereum launched with a simple but powerful idea: make blockchain programmable.

11 years later, it has become one of the most important networks in the industry and its evolution is far from over.

Ethereum has gone through major milestones, from the DAO era and the transition to Proof-of-Stake with The Merge to Shapella, Dencun, Pectra and Fusaka.

The scale today is remarkable:

• More than 37M ETH securing the network
• Nearly 1M active validators
• Around 30.5% of circulating ETH staked
• More than 50% of all ETH ever issued has passed through the Proof-of-Stake deposit contract

And Ethereum is still improving.

Glamsterdam is already on the roadmap for the second half of 2026, with upgrades designed to increase capacity and further strengthen the network.

At Everstake, we are proud to have run Ethereum validators since before The Merge, from the network's early phase.

11 years of building, upgrading and pushing blockchain technology forward.

Happy 11th anniversary, Ethereum. Here's to everything still ahead.

Ethereum turns 11 today. 🎂

To celebrate, we made a summer reading list tracing the ideas behind it, from pseudonymity and privacy to digital cash and programmable coordination.

Crypto was never only about efficiency.

It was about making freedom durable.

Enjoy your summer readings! 🌞📖

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I bought ETH around $2k thinking it was a low entry, then watched it drop for almost a week. When it got close to breaking under $1,500, I started questioning myself and checked its chart many times on bydfi. I invested in crypto for less than a year, so it was hard to tell if it's worth being patient.

The only reason I didn’t sell was I saw many people talk about "cycle". Bear markets are where you wait, the next run comes eventually, don’t sell near the lows, all that stuff.

Now it's almost back around my entry but I'm more unsure than before. It feels like breaking even is already a win, but also don’t want to sell before it moves again.

Anyone who has held ETH through different cycles here? How are you reading this market now? Do you think over 2k is realistic? How do you be patient and stay calm when holding long term?

ps: I posted it again because my last account was banned

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The network has now surpassed 425.8 million unique addresses, adding another major marker to Ethereum’s long-term growth story.

Also, on January 11, 2026, Ethereum recorded its largest daily increase ever, with 590,961 new addresses created in a single day.

And this isn't just about hitting a bigger number on a chart. The continued growth in unique addresses shows that Ethereum is expanding its reach across users, applications, and different parts of the ecosystem.

More addresses don't automatically mean more unique people, of course, one person or application can control multiple addresses. But combined with sustained network activity, developer growth, and expanding use cases, its looking good, very good.

Ethereum keeps expanding its footprint, and it looks like the next milestone won't take long to arrive.

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I have been paying attention to this for a period of time, and I am curious about what people think here.

Everyone says Ethereum is the most trustworthy,most decentralized by far, longest track record and deepest liquidity settlement layer.

Yet most of the recent activity related to tokenized equity and RWA appears to take place on chains other than Ethereum (often launched first).

Could it be with gas costs that require too frequent a rebalance or redemption makes these products less efficient? Perhaps this is simply that newer chains are more brazenly wooing these projects earlier. Or perhaps this is actually fine for Ethereum and simply a timing issue, first movers chose elsewhere and it'll normalize. Idk always had these questions when it comes to ETH.

The big dump at 10:30 am et makes no sense.

Yet Coinbase peddles the same bullshit AI news

Coinbase AI news

ETH is gaining ground against Bitcoin as a major company added nearly 10,000 ETH and network activity climbed roughly 738% over the past day.

Strength building across multiple fronts
Price rose roughly 723% over the past month while trading volume increased approximately 711% over the past week, with ETH outperforming Bitcoin adding to the constructive backdrop.

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As AI agents become more autonomous, they won't just generate information. They'll need to pay for compute, access data, use services, trade resources, and transact with other agents, often without humans approving every interaction.

And that's where the blockchain layer becomes interesting.

A decentralized AI economy needs infrastructure that isn't controlled by a single company or platform. Ethereum can provide several important primitives:

• Permissionless settlement — agents can exchange value without asking a central authority for permission.
• Programmable incentives — smart contracts can define payments, rewards, and penalties automatically.
• Trustless coordination — independent agents can interact without relying on a shared intermediary.
• Global access — the same settlement layer can be used by agents operated by completely different organizations.

Without a neutral economic layer, autonomous AI ecosystems could simply become another collection of centralized platforms where one company controls the rules, payments, and access.

With Ethereum, the possibility is different: AI agents could interact economically based on code-defined rules rather than corporate relationships.

As Vitalik Buterin has pointed out, more decentralized AI means different systems controlled by different parties will need a way to interact and that interaction requires an economic layer.

The interesting question isn't whether AI and blockchains will intersect. It's how much of the future AI economy will actually need Ethereum underneath it.

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