Bitwise CEO: Those who hate Ethereum will eventually discover that the Joker is themselves
According to The Block, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated in a memo sent to clients on Tuesday that "no one likes Ethereum" in the current market because the ETH/BTC exchange rate has recently fallen below a three-year low. However, Matt Hougan believes that this actually provides a potential contrarian investment opportunity for the end of the year.
No one likes Ethereum
Despite the poor performance of the overall cryptocurrency market in the past six months, Bitcoin still rose 42% in 2024, Solana rose 27%, and Ethereum only rose 1% in comparison. Matt Hougan stated that the sentiment of the Ethereum community is very low, and the main issues causing this situation include the risk of the US election, intensified competition from Solana, token economy challenges, and poor performance of spot ETFs.
Although the United States approved an Ethereum spot ETF in July, Matt Hougan pointed out that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) still considers staking Ethereum as a security. If He Jinli wins the November election and continues the Biden administration's skepticism towards cryptocurrencies, Matt Hougan believes that Ethereum may continue to face regulatory challenges.
In addition, the performance of Ethereum spot ETFs, including Bitwise's ETHW fund, has also fallen short of expectations. The newly launched fund attracted a net inflow of $2.1 billion, but the Grayscale ETF (ETHE) experienced a net outflow of $2.8 billion, indicating that overall funds are still flowing out.
Matt Hougan also pointed out that the rise of emerging public chains such as Solana has made competition even more intense:
Nowadays, the bullish sentiment towards new chains such as Solana is very popular in the cryptocurrency circle, while the bearish sentiment towards Ethereum is gradually increasing due to the older technology and higher cost
Finally, Matt Hougan emphasized that Ethereum is focused on driving the growth of transaction volume on the Layer 2 network, which has led to the lowest revenue for the underlying chain in four years. Many people have also begun to question whether Ethereum has harmed the development of its underlying Layer 1 by excessively promoting the expansion of Layer 2.
Investment opportunities against the trend
Although these challenges have affected market sentiment and prices, Matt Hougan believes they have overlooked a very important point.
It's cool to hate Ethereum now. I bet it will eventually look foolish
Although both Ethereum and Solana are attempting to become "public computers" for decentralized applications, almost all of the applications that have truly achieved "breakthrough success" are dominated by Ethereum, have the most active developers and users, over half of stablecoins are issued on Ethereum, over 60% of DeFi assets are locked onto Ethereum, and Ethereum is still the preferred settlement layer for prediction platform Polymarket. In addition, BlackRock's on chain US bond funds with asset management scale exceeding $500 million and Nike's NFT platform are also based on Ethereum, and these achievements are difficult to ignore.
Matt Hougan said:
Ethereum is like Microsoft in the memory blockchain industry. Everyone is talking about Google, Slack, and Zoom, which makes sense because they bring transformative technologies. But Microsoft's scale still exceeds their total
Although he is not bearish on Solana or other emerging chains, Matt Hougan believes that too many people have overlooked the tremendous success that Ethereum has already achieved.
The challenges of Ethereum are not fatal, but its opportunities are full of potential. I believe that as we approach the November election and the clarity of relevant regulatory policies, the market may re evaluate Ethereum. From the current perspective, Ethereum looks like a potential contrarian investment opportunity before the end of the year, "he concluded.
(责任编辑:创业研究)
-
精益创业(LearnStartup)普及了迭代实验的概念,鼓励创业家们选择好创意点子以后再测试、改变,重复该过程直到成功。...[详细]
-
10月31日嘉实价值丰润混合A净值下跌0.54%,近1个月累计下跌4.83%
”在Dwango创始人川上量生看来,尽管人们已经拥有社交网络来帮助自己在虚拟世界构建个人关系,但是niconico想要提供的是“网络上近似于街角一隅的场景”。...[详细]
-
2.负责网站专题内容、栏目页面和活动页面内容的制作、运营和维护。...[详细]
-
我忽然觉得我找到了交换友情链接的关键难点在哪里了,原来大家是一直困惑于找不到合适的网站交换,目标网站权重太高,根本不可能跟你交换。...[详细]
-
3、直播内容创业方向 直播平台水深火热,我们可以做直播内容。...[详细]
-
比特币能否产生实际收益?Solv Protocol 推出全新RWA代币提供解决方案
2015.10.28 改名《王者荣耀》,正式开始推广,主打口号为全球首款5V5英雄公平对战手游,主推5V5模式和不设体力、不卖装备、不做养成、公平竞技等特点。...[详细]
-
部分濒临死亡的项目,我们称之为“准关闭”项目,这部分项目数量还数倍于“彻底关闭”项目。...[详细]
-
保罗·格雷厄姆认为,最好的创业家都活在未来,在那里我们现在每天面对的所有问题都已得到解决。...[详细]
-
互联网连接效应:以自身的能力拥抱这种更自由的职业模式有更好的反脆弱性 而在过去传统时代里,人必须依附于一个特定的机构或者组织之中才能生存,因为组织和机构就是资源配置的方法,但由于信息不对称人才与...[详细]
-
2、定位错误,没有及时转型 刚开始时,俏江南的定位还是比较准的,虽然走的是高档餐饮,但还是以大众消费为核心,很快就成为了家喻户晓的知名企业。...[详细]