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Ethereum is holding above $3,200 after breaking the 21-day MA, with traders watching $3,900 as ETF inflows rise and supply stays tight.

Ethereum and Solana ETF trading accelerated sharply in early January amid increasing institutional interest in crypto assets.

Vitalik and Solana's Yakovenko outline competing ideas about resilience, exposing deeper trade-offs between sovereignty, speed and economic design. Ethereum and Solana are not only separated by questions of scalability, they are increasingly divided by competing visions of what blockchain networks must be built to withstand in the future. Recent remarks from the co-founders of each network revealed two competing definitions of “resilience,” rooted in different assumptions about risk, infrastructure and the future shape of blockchain adoption. In an X post revisiting Ethereum’s Trustless Manifesto, co-founder Vitalik Buterin framed resilience as protection against catastrophic failure, including political exclusion, infrastructure collapse, developer disappearance and financial confiscation.  Read more

Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was designed to set people free. That line from the Trustless Manifesto drew criticism when it was published, and Vitalik Buterin repeated it on Jan. 5. The argument: Ethereum's mission differs fundamentally from the efficiency game DeFi protocols compete in. The goal is […] The post Ethereum isn’t chasing 5.3% yield, Vitalik says – but the outage risk is over 5× bigger than regulation shocks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

With queues cleared and staking yields near 3%, the “supply shock” narrative is fading even as Ethereum remains the largest DeFi base layer.

For years, the institutional playbook for the crypto industry was simple: buy Bitcoin, perhaps dabble in Ethereum, and ignore the rest. In 2025, that playbook was rewritten. While Bitcoin retained its crown as the largest asset by total volume, the real story of the year was a dramatic structural shift in where new capital chose […] The post XRP and Solana dethrone Bitcoin and Ethereum as institutional favorites in 2025 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

“China’s Ethereum” co-founders clash on New Year’s Eve over Neo’s treasury, major Asian economies warm up to Bitcoin ETFs. Asia Express Neo co-founders Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei clashed on New Years Eve in a heated public exchange, accusing each other of mismanaging the blockchains treasury and misrepresenting years of internal governance decisions. Neo is a long-running smart contract network founded in 2014 that rose to prominence during the 2017 bull market, when it was widely dubbed Chinas Ethereum. The nickname reflected its early focus on smart contracts and regulatory-friendly design, similar in ambition to Ethereum but marketed as a domestic alternative for Chinas tech ecosystem. Zhang said he originally stepped away from Neo leadership after Da argued that joint oversight of the foundation was slowing the project.  Read more

The cash distribution stems from staking rewards earned after the fund enabled Ethereum staking in October. Grayscale has declared a staking rewards distribution for its Ethereum Staking exchange-traded fund (ETF), the first time a US-listed spot crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) has scheduled a payout tied to onchain staking activity. Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHE) shareholders will receive about $0.08 per share from proceeds of the sale of staking rewards, with the payout scheduled for Tuesday based on holdings recorded at market close on Monday, according to a press release published on Monday. Grayscale activated staking for its Ethereum products on Oct. 6, with staking conducted through institutional custodians and third-party validator providers. The move made ETHE and Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF (ETH) the first US-listed spot crypto ETPs to gain exposure to Ether staking. Read more

Ethereum trades above $3,160 with a 5% weekly gain as analysts track ETH/BTC strength and key resistance that could signal outperformance.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stated that the blockchain network must decide between chasing speculative trends or fulfilling its original promise as a neutral “world computer.” In two separate detailed posts on the social media platform X, Buterin reflected on 2025 as a year of significant technical progress. However, he cautioned against the network’s growing […] The post Vitalik Buterin declares Ethereum solved crypto Trilemma, yet his 2030 roadmap exposes a massive ideological risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum processed $8 trillion in stablecoin transfers during Q4, nearly double Q2’s volume, while active addresses and daily transactions peaked. Stablecoin transfer volume on Ethereum surpassed $8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a new all-time high, Token Terminal reported on Monday. The $8 trillion milestone is almost double the transfer volume figure for the second quarter, which was just over $4 trillion, according to Token Terminal’s chart. Stablecoin issuance on Ethereum increased by around 43% in 2025 from $127 billion to $181 billion by year’s end, according to BlockWorks.   Read more

Ethereum's co-founder says PeerDAS and zkEVMs have solved crypto's scalability vs. security vs. decentralization trade-off. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin claims Ethereum has “solved” one of the biggest challenges in crypto: the blockchain trilemma. In a X post on Saturday, Buterin emphasized the potential of peer data availability sampling (PeerDAS) and Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs), noting that these two upgrades are making Ethereum “a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.” “Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth,” he said, adding:  Read more

Ethereum saw a surge in institutional adoption and progress on scaling in 2025, while Solana was stress-testing the network and hardening its infrastructure.

Outages with Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services caused brief massive outages in 2025, affecting several cryptocurrency platforms. Vitalik Buterin, one of the co-founders of the Ethereum blockchain, said decentralization applications (DApps) could mitigate failures in internet infrastructure, such as when internet services provider Cloudflare experienced a massive outage in November. In a Thursday X post, Buterin said Ethereum needed to do more to achieve its mission of “[building] the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.” According to the co-founder, that started with DApps that “run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference” and are usable at scale on the blockchain. “Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea,” said Buterin. “Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applicat...

JPMorgan has launched a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, highlighting how regulated cash products may integrate into onchain settlement and collateral workflows. JPMorgan tokenized a money market fund and launched it on the Ethereum mainnet. The fund holds US Treasurys and Treasury-backed repos, with daily dividend reinvestment. Public Ethereum places MONY alongside stablecoins, tokenized treasuries and existing onchain liquidity. Read more

The Ethereum blockchain recorded its strongest operational year in history in 2025, processing record transaction volumes and securing the vast majority of the DeFi market. However, the crypto asset that powers the network failed to mirror that growth, posting double-digit losses for the year. According to CryptoSlate's data, ETH is trading down 10% year-to-date at […] The post Ethereum lost over $100 million in fees this year, and one corporate giant kept the profit appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ether trades sideways as spot ETF outflows, weak bullish leverage demand, and low Ethereum network fees cap recovery prospects going into 2026. Key takeaways: ETH remains capped below $3,000 as repeated breakout failures weaken trader confidence and suppress short-term momentum. A sustainable ETH rally will require stronger network activity and DApp demand to offset weak leverage and ETF flows. Read more

Ethereum transactions were the most costly in May 2022 when fees were over $200 per transaction on average. They have been declining since. The Ethereum mainnet clocked 2.2 million transactions in a single day in a new record this week, while fees have fallen to just 17 cents on average. The layer-1 blockchain recorded its new transaction milestone on Tuesday, according to block explorer Etherscan. Transaction fees have also dropped considerably over time.  The highest transaction fees on Ethereum were recorded in May 2022, when users had to spend over $200 per transaction. Read more

Onchain development activity on Ethereum has rebounded sharply, driven by tokenized assets, stablecoins and infrastructure, according to Token Terminal. Despite sluggish Ether price action, developers are increasingly choosing Ethereum as a settlement layer, with the fourth quarter shaping up to be a record period for the network. Data from Token Terminal shows that the number of new smart contracts created and published on the Ethereum blockchain reached an all-time high of 8.7 million in the fourth quarter. The milestone marked a sharp rebound from the previous two quarters, when contract deployment activity was significantly lower. Read more

Ethereum whales added millions of ETH in 2025 as retail sold, while developer activity hit record highs and key price levels remain in focus.