Strengthening Ether-Nasdaq Correlation Muddles Post-Merge Bullish Plays: Cumberland

The Merge has skewed demand-supply dynamics in favor of the bulls. But, the strengthening correlation with Nasdaq means big gains may remain elusive in case of broad based risk aversion.

Timeline of Ethereum

Ethereum's volatility has been quite extreme and Ether's price increased steadily starting in the second month of the year. ETH rapidly increased beyond $1,800 prior to the Merge. The excitement surrounding Ethereum's switch from PoW to PoS may have helped the rise to some extent.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin always seems to be looking a step into the future – or three. While layer 2 (L2) is currently still developing, Buterin contributed to the layer 3 (L3) discussion, arguing that these could serve a different purpose(s), leaving scalability to L2s.

Asset manager 21Shares has launched two new product lines aimed specifically at the bear market to give investors more options during the downturn. The post 21Shares launches Ethereum exchange-traded product tailored to the bear market: Exclusive appeared first on The Block.

Ethereum developer Alex Stokes on Wednesday said the EIP-4895 has been updated in preparation for deployment in the next planned Ethereum Shanghai upgrade. The update supports validator withdrawals from the Beacon Chain to the EVM through a new “system-level” operation.

Whale addresses are moving nearly $300 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) and XRP in just 24 hours this week, according to data from crypto transaction-tracking platform Whale Alert. In one of the largest transactions, Whale Alert reports that an unknown wallet transferred 38,781 Ethereum worth more than $52 million to another unknown wallet on Monday.

Scalability trilemma implies that to scale, blockchains usually need to sacrifice one of their three fundamental cornerstones — security or decentralization, or transaction throughput.

Canadian crypto entrepreneur Anthony Di Iorio, who is a co-founder of Ethereum, recently talked to crypto analyst Scott Melker (“The Wolf of All Streets”) about Ethereum. Di Iorio started with Bitcoin (BTC) early in 2012, at a time when it was trading under $10; that is when he started the Toronto Bitcoin Group.

Though volatility is a core attribute of cryptocurrency, the swing is quite excessive for Ethereum. The price movement for Ether was progressive from the beginning of the second of the year.

Before the Ethereum merge event, some experts and investors predicted a fall in the price of Ethereum and hence traded cautiously. Popular analysts referred to the merge hype as a buy the rumor, sell the news scenario.

With the Merge finally completed, Ethereum is now running as a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network. The post Research: Ethereum's move to PoS is trading off decentralization for scalability appeared first on CryptoSlate.