Ethereum Weekly (4/21/23)
Ethereum Weekly - Edition 20
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Ethereum (ETH) lost some of its luster in the past week with a fairly significant fall on Wednesday and has continued that downward trend for the next few days. The 2023 rally has at least temporarily been put on pause. Ether fell below the $2K mark and headed toward the $1.9K mark as the second-largest cryptocurrency slipped along with the rest of the crypto market with ETH falling just over 2% by Thursday's close.
The fall in crypto seems largely centered around the United States. Worries about a possible recession in the US, rising interest rates, and liquidity collided to push the markets lower. Overriding regulatory concerns doesn't help and the largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has stated it may look to move elsewhere with new operations looking to start in Bermuda. Weakness in the European economy only adds to risk asset sales pressures.
Adding further fuel to the falling market for Ether are all the options contracts set to expire shortly. In total, we have about 217K ETH options about to end with a strike price of around $1,950 with a total value of around $4.2 billion. With all the recent interest in Ethereum, it has passed Bitcoin in terms of the number of options. The current put/call ratio is bearish with more investors shorting ETH than going long.
Yesterday the US Labor Department report reported initial jobless claims for the previous week that was higher than analysts expected. Overall the claims grew by 5,000 reaching 245K, the highest figure since the end of 2021. This indicates a cooling economy, perhaps hurt by rising interest rates, and is often seen as a potential sign of an economic downturn. Please keep in mind that overall the job market in the US remains strong but keep an eye on what direction the jobless claims are headed.
Also this week we have a barrage of earning reports. On Thursday, Tesla reported lower-than-expected earnings which drove its stock price down. AT&T and Alcoa also dropped along with many stocks as earning reports continue to be digested as US stocks looked to have a down week pending Friday's results.
Ethereum had a nice run-up after the successful rollout of the Shapella hard fork earlier this month. Next up on the upgrade calendar is the "Cancun" hard fork which will see the implementation of EIP-4844 scheduled for the third or fourth quarter of this year. This upgrade will allow for rollups which will add cheaper data to the blockchain and help lower network fees. Get ready to start hearing the phrase "Proto-Danksharding" as we get closer to the upgrade.
The Crypto Greed and Fear Index highlighted below sits at 50 in the "Neutral" range and is down 18 points from where it was at last week.
Ten Must-Read Ethereum and Altcoin Articles This Week
Societe Generale subsidiary launches euro-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum (Cointelegraph)
Institutions Flock to Ether After Shapella Upgrade (CoinDesk)
Ethereum Roadmap Shows More Key Upgrades in the Pipeline (BeinCrypto)
Ethereum L2s Are a Bug Masquerading as a Feature (Blockworks)
Ethereum gas fee jumped due to memecoin frenzy with mixed comments on network usability (Cointelegraph)
MetaMask Says Recent Hacking of Ethereum Wallets Has Nothing To Do With Its Wallet Software (The Daily HODL)
Here's how Ethereum's ZK-rollups can become interoperable (Cointelegraph)
Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade Leads to Huge Influx of ETH at Exchanges (CoinDesk)
Ethereum vs. Bitcoin: Which One Has the Edge in Crypto Trading? (BeinCrypto)
How to Stake Ethereum - Crypto Wallets (Investopia)
Ethereum Price Statistics (as of 4/20/2023, daily close)
Ethereum Price = $1,943
Last Week =$2,012
Weekly High = $2,129
Weekly Low = $1,928
Market Cap = $229,705,506,962
Market Cap Dominance =18.64%
All-Time High = $4,878.26 on November 10, 2021
statistics provided by CoinGeckoEthereum Fun Fact of the Week
The Ethereum blockchain has five testnets and they are named Goerli, Sepolia, Ropsten, Rinkeby and Koven. Did you know that each of them is named after a metro station?
Ethereum Staking Statistics
Validators = 561,655
Block Time = 12.18 seconds
Staking Ratio = 15.38%
Total Supply = 122,373,866
statistics provided by StakingRewards
Crypto Fear & Greed Index
index provided by Alternative
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum (ETH) is a digital cryptocurrency that is known for being a blockchain technology that operates decentralized apps (dapps) such as decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), stablecoins, lending, and more. First proposed by Vitalik Buterin who published a whitepaper in 2013 and went live as a network in July 2015, Ethereum claims it is not controlled by a centralized authority but that can be questioned. Ethereum went through the "merge" in 2022 moving from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake mechanism becoming much more environmentally friendly.
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