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Ether climbed by 16.2% on Aug. 8; on Aug. 9 it battled to maintain levels above $2,600 and encountered more than anticipated resistance around $2,700. Still, Ether has a positive overall impression as more activity on the Ethereum network and layer-2 solutions support along with stronger macroeconomic circumstances.
A few investors have suggested that performance lag might be caused in part by withdrawals from spot Ether ETFs But according on Farside Investors data, Grayscale’s ETHE with lowest-ever outflows of $20 million on Aug. 8 might be breaking this trend. Grayscale still has $5 billion worth of Ether, hence consistency in outflows might help to reduce demand on Ether’s price.
Regarding traditional finance, investors are becoming more and more certain that the Federal Reserve of the United States will lower rates all through 2024. Inspired by remarks made by Boston Fed President Susan Collins, who observed that inflation is returning near the Fed’s 2% objective, this anticipation would improve the attraction of cryptocurrencies by so lowering the attractiveness of fixed-income returns, thus increasing risk markets.
As distributed application (DApp) activity rises by 55% over past week, Ethereum’s network activity has notably surged. Prominent platforms including Uniswap, 1inch Network, and CoW Swap have fueled Ethereum’s growth keeping its leadership in the distributed exchange (DEX). Underlining Ethereum’s expansion even further, its total value locked (TVL) also hit 19.7 million ETH, a 9.4% rise from the month before.
Critics contend that Ethereum’s average transaction costs of $3.85 discourage adoption, although this ignores two-layer scaling choices depending on native TVL value—Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism. L2Beat states that given layer-2 activity on Aug. 7 averages around 318 transactions per second, these layer-2 solutions have greatly lowered operation expenses and increased transaction capacity.
As its network keeps expanding, especially with regard to its layer-2 scaling solutions, Ethereum is positioned to achieve the $3,000 milestone assuming investor attitude stays the same.
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