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📌 Ethereum at a Crossroads: Price Stalls While Network Use Hits Records – Ethereum trades below $1,600, less than a third of its all-time high, yet network activity hits records. A structural shift between two value models explains…

\\n \\n$ETH, #Ethereum trades below $1,600 — less than a third of its all-time high — even as on-chain activity, L2 volumes and active addresses hit fresh records. Ethereum

$ETH, #Ethereum trades below $1,600 — less than a third of its all-time high — even as on-chain activity, L2 volumes and active addresses hit fresh records. The divergence points to a structural shift: markets still price a scarcity/staking narrative, while real value increasingly stems from utility-driven cash flows (fees, rollups, MEV, tokenized RWA). The crossroads forces investors to decide which value model will anchor ETH’s next leg.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin

$62,900.81

BTC -0.32%

Ethereum

Ethereum

$1,674.70

ETH 0.87%

Binance Coin

Binance Coin

$602.54

BNB 1.26%

XRP

XRP

$1.17

XRP 2.48%

Dogecoin

Dogecoin

$0.09

DOGE 0.96%

Cardano

Cardano

$0.17

ADA 3.37%

Solana

Solana

$66.55

SOL 1.48%