What made you believe in this project?

For me personally, Vitalik was the main reason I had belief in the project

Went 25x long on ETH last month with basically my whole stack. liquidated in under two hours.

After sulking for a day i went back through old threads here and realized almost every newbie does the same stuff. too much leverage with no actual plan, no stop loss (just gonna close it manually lol), entire portfolio in one position, chasing a pump thats already moved 15%, not getting how funding eats your margin, moving stops out instead of taking the hit, revenge trading right after getting liquidated. i did every single one of them.

One thing that actually saved me. id set the position to isolated margin on bydfi instead of cross. when that long blew up it only took what was allocated to that trade, not my full balance. difference between losing a trade and losing everything.

ui isnt as polished as bybit yet but isolated margin genuinely saved my account. if youre starting out just go practice on demo first, dont learn this the hard way

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The establishment of Ethereum Institution is the latest positive development for Ethereum. It shifts corporate and Wall Street relations to a board controlled by Walsh, Lubin, Tom Lee and the largest ETH treasury corporations, the core Ethereum Foundation (governed by Vitalik Buterin and Aya Miyaguchi) can maintain its strict philosophical focus on open-source code and decentralization, leaving the "Wall Street playbook" to this newly formed entity!

During Q2 2026, the network processed 203,851,942 transactions, setting a new all-time high for quarterly onchain activity.

This milestone is significant because transaction count remains one of the most reliable indicators of real network utilization.

What's particularly noteworthy is that this record comes more than a decade after Ethereum launched. As blockchain ecosystems mature, sustaining growth becomes increasingly difficult. Yet Ethereum continues to expand its activity despite an already massive user base and one of the largest application ecosystems in crypto.

The result also reflects years of continuous protocol improvements. Upgrades focused on scalability and data availability, combined with the rapid growth of Layer 2 networks, have allowed Ethereum to support significantly higher throughput while maintaining its role as the ecosystem's settlement layer.

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Bit of a workflow rant, not a price post.

I run eth for three people, mine plus my dad's and my younger sister's, each in its own wallet. Keep them separate on purpose, I'm not mixing someone else's coins into my own bag, if something ever goes sideways I want it dead obvious whose eth is whose.

Fine when nothing's happening. Last week eth started sliding and I wanted most of it into stables before it got worse. So it's open dad's wallet, approve, swap, then my sister's, approve, swap, then mine. Three times through the same motions. By the time I got to the last one eth had dropped a good bit more and that wallet filled noticeably worse than the first. That one was mine at least.

The dumb part is I already know what's in each, that was never the holdup, I'm just sitting there refreshing and clicking through them one wallet at a time while the price runs away from me. Felt like watching it leak.

So when eth is actually dumping and you've got a few wallets to get out of, what do you do? Am I missing something or is everyone just tabbing through them one by one like me.

Notice how it hardly goes any much down at these levels, RSI is at historical lows, the sentiment as well, many think sub $40k btc and $1k eth is the target as historical bear markets would suggerst but the RSI simply doesn't suggest it, I'd eat my hat if we'll see any significant -20% moves from here.

Hello everyone, I would like to share my thoughts about ETH this quarter. We have made history with 3 red quarters in a row, as I described in my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/1to25d3/eth_is_going_down_down_down_based_on_historical/

I have mixed feelings about Q3. I believe we will rally a bit, then drop to around the same levels as today. So we will be in the mayonnaise where nothing really happens. Best case, around 2000-2200, worst case, we will drop to 1200-1300. No one knows the future. It can go up or down ahah

Here are some of my reasons:

- The war in the Middle East is still a big macro factor in the Crypto Industry.
- The market is testing the new Fed, and it can go both ways.
- Clarity Act: I have very low confidence that this will happen in July. I think we will see lots of drama and keep postponing, which will impact the ecosystem.
- We used to only have the ETH Foundation, but in recent weeks, we now have ETH Labs and ETH Institutional organisations. This can be good if they align on generating revenue and impact, or really bad if they start fighting for their own interests.

Unfortunately, I think the only way crypto will move is if Trump pumps and manipulates the market again. Also, if there is a rotation from AI/Chips to Crypto, which is very unlikely.

When you think it can’t get any worse, It gets much worse.

And when you think that is the bottom, the bottom falls out of the bottom again.

watched 2 days ago how 340 bucks sat in processing on a cross‑chain swap that was supposed to land in 20 minutes. nothing changed in 4 hours, the support bot kept sending the same line, so “best route” stopped meaning anything for me and i went to try a few services. for me letsexchange is the option i open when i want something familiar with a normal set of pairs. changenow is more about a slick ui and quick quotes when i do not feel like digging into details. fixedfloat is the one i use when i actually want to tweak fees and pairs myself. bridge aggregators are what i reach for when i need to move funds across some odd chain combo and see the route. but i didn’t get from all of them in one place the mix i wanted: a cross‑chain swap that starts in my own wallet, ends in my own wallet, does not bother me with an account and does not make me watch every step. so for my last swap I used  simpleswap and so far it’s the most acceptable option for me, the swap landed within their quoted window while i just watched it go through from my wallet to the destination address. still not sure if that is the perfect setup, so i am curious what else matters to others in these services, maybe i’m missing smth

Have around 700k in cash currently in a RH account that I grew gambling through options. (Taxes paid already) Thought I was some sort of trading genius but as time goes on I realize how much luck and conviction(belief)is Involved. I’m now trying to diversify this cash into actual buy and hold investments.

I have never bought crypto before but some retarded old guy once said buy low sell high.

Sentiment has got to be an all time low right now for this sector.. seems like a good time to hop in while everyone is shitting on this asset class.

What do you guys think about buying 25 eth for my portfolio. Not as a trade but a buy and hold 10+ years. I’m basically doing a world tour of block buys until my cash is all invested.

It’s either this or basically buy 1 BTC.

Is 50k too much?

Love to hear your thoughts.

I guess sidebar but any advice on the platform I should use to actually buy the eth too wouldn’t mind that either. Cheers.