Ethereum (ETH)

The cryptocurrency market is going through a phase where price movements could become more difficult to anticipate. Behind the fluctuations of Bitcoin and Ether, market makers' hedging strategies play an important role. According to Greeks.Live data, their exposure to options currently presents a configuration likely to accentuate movements in both directions. This situation particularly concerns the derivatives markets and could trigger chain reactions during upcoming fluctuations.

Bitcoin fell below 69000 dollars after a new wave of liquidations, while Ether broke the 2000 dollar mark. However, the main danger no longer comes only from leverage. ETFs are emptying and the supply of stablecoins is decreasing, depriving the market of the necessary capital to absorb sales.

The sentiment around bitcoin, Ether and XRP has fallen into bearish territory, fueling hopes of a countertrend rebound. However, the fear observed on social media does not prove that sales are over: the real signal will come from the return of spot demand.

BitMine lost 6.31 billion dollars in its 2026 fiscal year despite the surge in its staking revenues. Behind this largely accounting loss appears a structural weakness. An annual return of a few percent is not enough to protect a crypto treasury when Ether drops by 44%.

Sharplink posted a net profit of $751.4 million in the third quarter of 2026, an increase of 620% year-on-year. The American company listed on Nasdaq attributes this performance to its crypto treasury strategy focused on Ethereum. But nearly 90% of the profits come from unrealized gains on its ETH. Its holdings now reach 895,117 ETH, while staking revenues continue to grow.

Ethereum could disrupt up to 200,000 smart contracts with its upcoming Glamsterdam update. Developer banteg warns of risks related to new gas calculation rules, which could prevent some existing contracts from functioning properly. Two competing proposals were submitted on November 8 to avoid these problems. The Ethereum Foundation has already suspended a planned test on Hoodi.

A global five-minute outage would stop Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, without erasing already recorded blocks. What would happen to your funds when power returns.

Vitalik Buterin no longer wants the value of ETH to depend mainly on the fees burned by Ethereum. His reasoning resolves a contradiction that has become central: the network cannot simultaneously make its transactions cheaper and rely on high fees to support the token's scarcity.

Bitcoin and Ether spot ETFs recorded $530 million in net outflows on November 5, as a stock market collapse wiped out nearly $3 trillion in market capitalization on Wall Street. These funds were supposed to bring crypto closer to traditional finance; they also accelerate the transmission of its panic periods.

Ethereum blobs are only guaranteed for about 18 days, but archives preserve them. The first blob from March 2024 was still present in October 2026.

Ethereum ended October 2026 with a decline of 16.06%, while US spot ETH crypto ETFs recorded $1.61 billion in net outflows. A monthly record since their launch in July 2024. The market's second largest cryptocurrency thus closes three consecutive months of gains, with a price back around $2,250. BlackRock accounts for most of the withdrawals.

Ethereum faces a threat after the Binance hack. North Korean hackers are said to hold more than 420,000 ETH, nearly one billion dollars at prices observed at the end of October. These funds could be resold on the crypto market while liquidity remains fragile. Binance has however replenished 95% of the affected assets, and several technical indicators hint at a possible rebound.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and BNB all experienced a sharp increase in volatility after the Binance hack. However, comparing their declines shows very different situations: BTC still defends a long-term trend, while XRP and ETH need to rebuild several lost supports.

A simple on-chain signal was enough to turn the evening of October 29 upside down. At 8:32 pm, researcher Spreek detects an anomaly on Ethereum. Four minutes earlier, a contract had emptied a Binance wallet of 167,464 ETH. In a few hours, several stablecoin issuers froze 2.54 billion dollars, while the exchange confirmed one of the biggest hacks in crypto history.

BitMine resumes its share buybacks while increasing its staked ether positions. Last week, the company bought back 2.04 million shares, while the volume of ETH locked for staking increased after nearly three months of stagnation. However, its ether purchases slow down as it nears its holding target.

Ethereum researchers are now using artificial intelligence agents to analyze the unexpected effects of Glamsterdam on existing contracts. This initiative comes after the postponement of the planned test on Hoodi, but it does not mean that the issue is already resolved.

Spot ether ETFs lost $1.2 billion in October, their worst month of the year. At the same time, Bitmine is approaching the 5% cap on the supply it set for itself. The two buyers driving demand are withdrawing together.

Minterest has closed its site but keeps its contracts active. Immutable X and Polygon zkEVM have migrated the funds. Blast and Abstract announced their closure in 2026. What remains recoverable.

BitMine is approaching the end of one of the largest crypto accumulation campaigns conducted by a company. Tom Lee states that the company will stop buying Ethereum when it reaches 5% of the ETH supply. BitMine already holds 6,041,481 ETH, or about 4.9% of the 122.1 million ETH used as reference. At a constant supply, about 63,500 ETH still separate it from its cap.

Ethereum researchers want to reduce the finality time of transactions from 16 to 4 minutes. Behind this technical improvement is a concrete economic issue: to allow transfer services to mobilize less capital while waiting for the final confirmation of operations. For now, the project is still under study and does not plan any deployment date.

A crypto authorization granted to a contract remains active after the transaction. From May 5, 2026, attackers exploited this to withdraw 1.42 million dollars from Ekubo users.

Wintermute considers bitcoin as the main defensive asset of the crypto market in the face of altcoin decline and macroeconomic nervousness. However, this qualification remains relative: BTC has also fallen and is not a risk-free investment.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies has purchased an additional 12535 ETH, raising its reserves to 6.04 million units. The company is thus approaching its goal of holding 5% of the Ether supply, while its chairman Tom Lee attributes the recent market drop to concerns related to artificial intelligence and the macroeconomic context.

JPMorgan extends JPM Coin directly to Ethereum. Its dollar deposit token, JPMD, was already available on Base since November 2025. It can now be used by approved institutional clients on the Ethereum network to make payments, settle transactions on tokenized assets, or move collateral. Kinexys has already processed over 4 trillion dollars since its launch.

Ethereum is preparing a new important test for Glamsterdam. On October 26 at 17:42 UTC, the upgrade will be activated on Hoodi with a limit of 200 million gas per block. The testnet will thus go well above the approximately 60 million used as a reference before. After Sepolia in early October, Ethereum wants to verify that such capacity can operate without making blocks too heavy to process.

In one year, real-world tokenized assets on Solana increased from around 700 million to 4.3 billion dollars, according to Castle Labs. The network thus narrows the gap with Ethereum and now represents 26% of its tokenized value, compared to only 4.5% a year earlier. However, this growth has paused since last month.

Ethereum prepares to increase its gas limit from 60 to 200 million per block as part of the Glamsterdam upgrade. This increase represents a factor of 3.3, not 33, but it currently only applies to test networks, with no date set yet for the mainnet.

A whale sold 1,074.36 bitcoins for $89.5 million and bought 36,159 ethereum for $90.6 million in three days, according to Lookonchain. Here is what is known, and what this operation hides.