I see a lot of doomposting about Bitcoin and crypto because crypto is somehow not the favourite toy of the market at the moment (AI stonks are).
I want to remind that crypto is not a toy, and it's serving its true purpose - self-sovereignty of every user, financial rails which are always on and do not stop working. Institutions are also into adopting something which has no clunky intermediaries now, so fundamentally we are better than ever.
AI is foundational, but it will go through its own valley of death: replacing humans by AI would put AI outputs into AI inputs, quality will degrade, and costs will grow exponentially to maintain it. Large companies who push AI everywhere aren't necessarily using it correctly, so they report some overly large expenses.
Both technologies - crypto and AI - are foundational. They are not the same thing though, and they are not competing with each other in principle.
Crypto is the future of Finance!
"Ethereum is dead." We hear this narrative every cycle.
But on April 28, 2026, the network reached 3,627,491 daily transactions, the highest level ever recorded.
Just pause and think about the sheer magnitude of this scale. When you zoom out and compare this to the peaks of previous cycles, the growth is staggering.
And here is the most fascinating part, despite this massive surge, we are still incredibly early.
In our opinion, the network effects are compounding faster than most realize. Given this momentum, we expect Ethereum to cross 6 million daily transactions before the end of the year.
Source: @etherscan