It’s hard to judge that ETH was languishing astatine little than $1500 successful April. Now it’s supra $3800 again.
Ethereum’s comeback is the communicative of the summer. Through ETFs ($2 cardinal inflows successful 2 weeks), ETH treasury vehicles and excitement astir tokenization, the comeback is good and genuinely on. And institutions are in the driving seat.
One of BlackRock’s cardinal integer assets stars will pb Joseph Lubin’s ETH vehicle, SharpLink.
As EY’s Paul Brody wrote this week, with institutions, “Ethereum Has Already Won,” and volition astir apt support winning for decades to come. The incumbency of the Network Effect – that a captious wide of transactions successful stablecoins and tokenization volition autumn to Ethereum – makes it a de facto network.
We’ll see.
In markets:
While bitcoin held dependable nether 120k, altcoins did well. Hell. Most of the crypto marketplace is looking comparatively steadfast these days.
And, according to President Trump, Jerome Powell could soon chopped rates (or get fired). If so, that volition assistance risky assets similar bitcoin et al.
In different large news:
Roman Storm’s Tornado Cash proceedings intensified. CoinDesk’s Cheyenne Ligon was there.
Elon signed up X/Grok to prediction marketplace Kalshi
JP Morgan volition connection crypto loans but faces protests from crypto commercialized groups implicit information access.
See you adjacent week.