In a dusty digital frontier where fortunes rose and fell like the tide, leveraged funds that bet against ETH found themselves laughing all the way to a bank of towering returns. Bloomberg’s old records, as if whispered by a wandering prospector, showed that ProShares’ ETHD had a bounty of 247% and T-Rex’s ETQ followed with a 219% harvest. These funds, doubling down on their opposite bets, stirred the pot like a mischievous outlaw 😏.
Meanwhile, Ethereum—once a robust, thriving giant—faced a bitter winter. Plunging over 50% by mid-April, the market’s cruel hand left crypto bulls with nothing but the memory of greener days. Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas didn’t mince words, calling the affair “brutal,” as if admitting that the gods of finance had a wicked sense of humor 🤷♂️.
And yet, even as Ethereum claimed dominion over a vault of roughly $46 billion as measured by DeFiLlama, its economic heartbeat had slowed to a feeble whisper. After the grand Dencun upgrade—promising relief for weary travelers by lowering transaction tolls—the revenue from fees sank a staggering 95%. The new Layer-2 trails, bustling with activity, still struggled to conjure the magic of old, much like a dusty carnival trying to attract a modern crowd.
In one meager week, Ethereum pocketed just over 3 ETH from the hustle on L2 networks like Arbitrum and Base—a sum so scant it might raise an eyebrow amid the cosmic jest of it all. To mirror the abundance of days past, the volume on L2 would need to grow by more than 22,000 times. One could almost chuckle at such an absurd expectation 😜.
Now, the aged sages of finance reckon that Ethereum’s future might not rely solely on the clinking of coin from fees, but rather on its nimble ability to serve as a steadfast data host for scaling dreams. Even the stalwarts of smart contract lands—Ethereum and Solana—have seen their vigor diminish in the cautious light of Q1, where looming tariffs and quirky geopolitical dramas (yes, even under the Trump administration) conspire to make the old world feel both absurd and oddly endearing 🍀.
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