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Ethereum and Bitcoin and crypto prices have fallen sharply in the past 10 days
- $ETH down -40% and Bitcoin -30%
- crypto sentiment is reflexive
- so there is a lot of “rage quitting”
- and many pundits citing problematic structural and unfixablr reasons for the decline
To me, this type of volatility and drawdown seen in 2026 is very much what happens in crypto
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2/ Since 2018,
- $ETH has seen a drawdown
- of -60% or worse 7 times
- in 8 years
This is basically every year
- in 2025, $ETH decline -64%
3/ But it feels worse in 2026, than other declines
- because this price decline matches a “crypto winter”
- while crypto fundamentals have been improving
- in 2022 crypto winter ❄️, NFTs busted and then the collapse of 3 arrows and FTX book-ended the decline
2026 started with the earthquake of Oct 10th and the industry limped along but then took some hits from
- Greenland truthsocial tweet
- Gold and silver surge
- Kevin Warsh annct
🧵on ethereum 1/ $ETH +22% past month but down -9% YTD
ETH rangebound since 2021, but the rise of stablecoins $CRCL $USDT and Wall Street tokenizing real-world assets is driving up demand for ETH = upside
....please read on
$BMNR DAT @BitMNR
2/ @fundstrat discusses how stablecoins are the "ChatGPT" moment for crypto and Wall Street converging onto ETH on @SquawkCNBC
A 🧵 on stablecoins and Ethereum 1/ Stablecoins is the singular most successful crypto product and the only one to move into the "real world" with $250 billion in total assets
we are in the earliest days....
(keep reading plz)
2/ Stablecoins are a good business model and attracted the interest of banks $JPM $V and even merchants $AMZN $WMT
- issuers of stablecoins generate significant profits as the collateral (USD) can earn yield and this is not paid to holders of the stablecoin (yet)
@fs_insight @SeanMFarrell @WSJ @business
3/ Merchants like stablecoins but there is lower transaction costs and the merchants do not take the continuous loss from "chargebacks" which can run as high as 5%-6% of transaction dollar volume
- and BONUS: a large untapped market of users who do not use credit cards