Crypto market cap hit $4.3T (~1/6 of gold). BTC $116K, ETH $4.6K. A century of bank-centric rails is now challenged by decentralized networks.

Crypto market cap hit $4.3T (~1/6 of gold). BTC $116K, ETH $4.6K. A century of bank-centric rails is now challenged by decentralized networks.

The Dencun Upgrade addressed throughput bottlenecks by introducing blob storage, which lowered costs and spurred the creation of more rollups on Ethereum. However, this shift also meant that most new applications migrated to these scalable rollups or alternative L1s, causing user activity on the mainnet itself to decline.

The Dencun Upgrade addressed throughput bottlenecks by introducing blob storage, which lowered costs and spurred the creation of more rollups on Ethereum. However, this shift also meant that most new applications migrated to these scalable rollups or alternative L1s, causing user activity on the mainnet itself to decline.