JUST IN: Zcash crashes 48% after Claude AI finds critical vulnerability allowing unlimited minting of $ZEC.
It went unnoticed for 4 years until it was patched on June 1st.
I have never seen so many people capitulating out of $ETH or crypto.
Some are writing blogs and essays explaining why it failed, mainly naming how other chains won the race, measured by fees taken in.
Some of my thoughts, in these hard times:
Time will tell, but I think many people are mistaken in treating $ETH like an end-stage $AMZN, as if the main question is already about mature margins, fees, and cash flows.
In reality, Ethereum is still very much earlier in its economies-of-scale phase, with nearly all metrics in the top right corner and growing at mid double digits to tripple.
Furthermore, most of the market is focused on the wrong battle: who can become the fastest and cheapest payment processor.
Lower fees, higher throughput, faster settlement. But that is likely a race to commoditization, similar to the payment processors crash over the last years.
If the only value proposition is speed and cost, then the moat gets thinner over time, easy disruptable. Someone can always be faster. Someone can always subsidize fees lower. Someone can always optimize one narrow use case.
The real value may not be in the transaction fee itself.
The real value is likely in the amount of economic activity secured by the network, the credibility of that security, the neutrality of the base layer, and the difficulty of replacing it once enough assets, applications, institutions, and users depend on it.
That is where Ethereum seems different to me and why so many institutions are choosing $ETH.
Most other projects still feel replaceable. They may have better performance in one area, better UX in another, or lower fees in the short term. But if their advantage is mainly technical efficiency, that advantage can be copied, competed away, or made irrelevant.
The newest hottest thing today is replacing the hottest thing from last quarter.
Ethereum’s bet appears to be much larger: become the most secure, decentralized, credibly neutral settlement layer for the internet economy.
Not the cheapest rail.
The hardest rail to replace.
In the end, the most valuable network may not be the one with the lowest transaction costs. It may be the one people trust most to secure the highest-value assets and applications over the longest period of time.
If $ETH can retain its market share while continuing to scale through upgrades that improve speed, throughput, and fees, its potential remains significant, especially if AI agents become truly crypto-native.
If it combines all of the above and earn the crown as the leading value-secured network, then $ETH could eventually be viewed as something like a truly decentralized, inflation-adjusting global bond: securing the world’s assets, free from political meddling, and deserving of a premium market cap because of the value it protects on top of the deflationary pressures create incentives to stake, get yield and trust the equivalent of buybacks and griwth in value secured to provide additional value.
Keep in mind over 1/3 of $ETH is now staked!
In that scenario, $ETH would not just be another asset to hold. It could become one of the only truly neutral and secure bonds for the digital economy.
... But sure, lets compare it to $SOL with 6% inflation, no moat, no security, massive outages, decreasing validator nodes and alike.
it just all feels like people are getting lost in short term fees and the easiest valuation attempt rather than what $ETH is actually built for, all while its testing its bottom range and players go full portfolio into AI.
#Bitcoin
The bottom for $BTC has been in place since february 2026.
Did you know that Bitcoin has bounced off a 12-year trendline? That's massive!
What we’re seeing here is accumulation before the price rises.
Altcoins will outperform.🤝
The macro low is in.
We will be hitting new highs way before we ever see $60k again.
And the most important charts in all of Crypto are signalling this beautifully.
We have been analysing and commenting on COPPER/GOLD and the Business cycle for some time now...
And things continue to play out on that front as expected.
Price action over the previous 5 months has been tricky, but the macro charts have been straight forward.
We have had the ultimate trifecta now confirm together:
- 1W Supertrend flip bullish on COPPER/GOLD
- HTF reclaim on previous cycle low COPPER/GOLD
- Business cycle in expansion
Every single time this has confirmed, Bitcoin has made new ATHs within 5 months.
There are no stronger two charts that show us the overall macro and risk on/off sentiment than COPPER/GOLD and the Business cycle.
You are seriously at a disadvantage if you do not take these seriously.
Do with it what you will.
Billionaires lose millions to become billionaires.
Millionaires lose thousands to become millionaires.
Broke people want to lose nothing but want to be rich.